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What is design thinking and how can it help you innovate?

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Since then, around 115 professionals from 12 countries, spanning various industries like software development, consulting, manufacturing, and marketing, have taken the online course. The program is designed for the C-suite and other senior leaders who are instrumental in the creation and execution of strategies in their organizations.

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People Are Irrational, But Teams Don't Have to Be

Harvard Business Review

Here's a case in point: In 2004, my HBS colleague Gary Pisano and I conducted a project at a leading manufacturer of highly sophisticated production equipment for the electronics industry, which I'll call "Exotech." The project ran successfully for hardware development, and the project management tools worked exactly as expected.

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Does Hardware Even Matter Anymore?

Harvard Business Review

They can also replace the hydraulic power steering with a more-efficient electric power-steering system, or for that matter control everything needed to make that car autonomous — all it takes is software. New tools and strategies. It also means that much more of a product’s differentiation will be expressed in software.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

Failure to engage developers. The platform owner must also show software developers what’s in it for them if they contribute. In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Insight Center.

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IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology

Harvard Business Review

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. A second accelerant of IT delivery is the iterative software development philosophy known as "agile development." Move Beyond Enterprise IT to an API Strategy. In 1998, RIM launched the BlackBerry.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Collins worked primarily on IT related work, such as systems integration and software development. In 2004, when ZeroChaos , a provider of contingent workforce solutions, began courting IBM as a customer, IBM was concerned with losing the war for engineering talent to new startups such as Yahoo and Google.