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Late Mover Advantage

The Agile Manager

So pharma manufacturers were motivated to avail free samples of medicines to doctors. An intermediary couldn't crush the competition with customer love, innovation, tech firepower, or scale. Clearly, Fintech has had an impact: things like loan origination are far more efficient at banks today than they were just a few years ago.

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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

In simple terms, an open source database is this: It’s a database with source code that is free and available to all. Their work produces higher-quality code and enables faster innovation, while maintaining high security standards. Synchronous replication supports high availability. What is an open source database?

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Lost Productivity or Found Hyperefficiency?

The Agile Manager

Consider healthcare: although medical costs are much higher today in nominal terms than they were in 1970, they are much lower in real terms when adjusted both for monetary inflation and medical-technological innovation. Or would you rather be treated for all of these to a standard of care available in 2020?

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