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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

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Fundamentals

The Agile Manager

It isn't difficult to imagine the DIY retailers lobbying congress to create legislation that allows employees to set aside up to x-thousand-dollars of annual income as tax exempt for use on home improvement. On the one hand, many regulations have been lightened to make it easier for companies to conduct business during the crisis.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

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Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. He has also hosted the NY Web Performance Meetup, which boasts over 5,000 members, since 2009. Jake Archibald. Jake Archibald. Paul Calvano.

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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

This has happened through equity buybacks (in 2005-8 this was usually funded with debt, since 2009 it's just as likely to be funded with excess cash flow) and dual-class share structures (Groupon, Facebook, News Corp, etc.) In the past decade, corporate ownership has been concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.

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Capitalizing Tech in a Cloud / SaaS / Continuous Delivery World

The Agile Manager

in the rent payment), so technology costs represent a larger - and discreetly measurable - operating expense. retailers) and asset-heavy finance companies (e.g., Development labor has commanded a premium price for many years now - it's been counter-cyclical since 2009, rising while labor costs in the broader economy stagnated or sank.

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