Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

To overcome some of these challenges, we built our own Java-based player, complete with caching, content compression, and even bandwidth detection so it could switch between video, audio, and text versions of a course depending on network speed. And, of course, what can actually be done to make a site faster?

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

And these talents are by no means coveted only by companies that always had a digital business model to begin with; suppliers to the automotive industry, financial services companies, and retailers also, urgently need product managers, and technical staff who can quickly make their organizations digitally attractive to their customers.

Social Media 85

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 85

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Not to mention, the acceleration of innovation - a WSJ article recently cited a McKinsey study that had suggested 10 years of innovation was compressed into a 3 month window - has created opportunities that were not practical just a year ago. Is brick-and-mortar retail dead? Are cities dead? Is cash dead? These are less useful.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail C++ Transportation 52

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. . By offloading the task of managing infrastructure to AWS Essent is able to spend more time on innovating on behalf of their customers to help them in their energy usage.

Cloud 130

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Expanding customer value while reducing costs Further, the retail financial services landscape is increasingly competitive. Winning the loyalty of these increasingly fickle customers requires the right investments—in personalization, customer service, developing innovative products, and bringing them to market faster.

FinTech 193

FinTech Innovation Strategy Retail 193

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2020

Of course, companies can't get free office space from their employees and expect the same level of productivity from them when they are working in a distributed manner. Little or none of this may come to pass, of course. Not requiring consultant and contract labor to work on-site will reduce corporate travel costs.

Airlines 52

Airlines Government Hardware Technology 52

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Of course, in the midst of a crisis, there are no models that forecast economic performance to any useful degree of certainty. retail square footage doesn't look like a good investment) to organizational dynamics (office square footage doesn't look like a good investment).

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

There are plenty of examples - music publishing, mass-market retailing, local transportation - where new entrants have left a wake of creative destruction in their path. Of course, that could mean there are too many slackers in research jobs, or that we have more eggheads than our economies can afford. Inflation has risen only 6.5

Innovation 40

Innovation Retail Blockchain Transportation 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Of course, a bot can do that in the time it took you to read this sentence, so it’s not only less boring but a lot faster, too. Being the largest online retailer on the planet, it’s safe to say that if you want to buy something, you can probably get it on Amazon. And Puppeteer ” by Andreas Altheimer.

Website 115

Website Code Retail Best Practices 115

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2014

Of course, in software development, we often see highly skilled, abstract thinkers in the secondary labor market and lower skilled, concrete thinkers in the primary. However, the transient nature of the contract means that all members of the consultant organization are part of the retailer's secondary labor market.

Software 49

Software Software Development Retail 49

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 28, 2007

They will change significantly over the course of fulfillment as they become better understood. It is subsequently highly likely that there will be new or emergent technologies applied, if not outright invented, over the course of delivery. All together, this means that the problem domain will be complex and dynamic.

Government 40

Government Retail Best Practices Technology 40