Planview

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Vanguard’s Transformation Journey “Introducing Flow at Scale at Vanguard” What happens when you introduce flow measurement across an enterprise software development organization? See how Vanguard leveraged a 10-team pilot to apply flow measurement and improve software delivery efficiency for more than 750 teams.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 14, 2023

When he took the reins at Ford in 2006, the company was facing dire financial straits. Under Mulally’s strategic vision and the “One Ford” plan, he streamlined brands, globalized the company’s operations, and renewed focus on innovative car designs. Brown’s impact is a testament to the universality of Design Thinking principles.

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Wazoku

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Crowdsourcing was coined in 2006 by Wired writer Jeff Howe who defined it as taking a task traditionally performed by an employee and outsourcing it to an undefined, sometimes large group of people. Crowdsourcing first became popular among software developers: open sourced code was a way for companies to more quickly develop software.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 6, 2021

The Design Management Institute researched the size of companies’ competitive edge that they called design-centered – but you can see it there as design-driven, user-centric, or “user focus.” The six steps for justifying better UX, Forrester (2006). Yes, the lack of UX can be expensive.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What happened in 2006? And Bill Gates announced he was shifting his priorities from software development to social impact by moving full time to his foundation. And is this kind of rapid growth good news? In the broader U.S. population, two generations made clear that their interests, too, lay in helping society.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Collins worked primarily on IT related work, such as systems integration and software development. In 2006, Havens & Company risked losing 30% of its business when IBM acquired Havens’ major customer, KeyMRO, and naturally reassigned Havens’ sales contacts at KeyMRO within IBM’s large organization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Research by one of us (James) links this trend to software. Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. Steve Jobs initially resisted letting developers build apps for the iPhone. .”

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