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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

Programmers and software professionals squeezing time in against packed evenings and weekends to accelerate productivity.” He continues to describe the hackathon format as one of “decentralized, disintermediated, distributed computer programming [that] proves an industry standard for software development.”. Think again.

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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

Programmers and software professionals squeezing time in against packed evenings and weekends to accelerate productivity.” He continues to describe the hackathon format as one of “decentralized, disintermediated, distributed computer programming [that] proves an industry standard for software development.”. Think again.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

Many bystanders are more likely to view these two giants emergence onto the global stage as business evolution rather revolution and while Samsung declared their competitive intentions in 2008 Foxconn has only recently reached the starting line of its long journey. Click & Connect with Matthew: LinkedIn .

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Deliver Big Impact on a Small Budget

Harvard Business Review

In 2008, with just a few thousand dollars, Ben Munoz and I started Ben's Friends , a network of online support sites for people with rare diseases. Back in 2008, Ben and I knew three things. Software development" and "hardware" are bad words. Basecamp too was hosted software with a very small monthly subscription fee.

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Can Design Save Silicon Valley?

Harvard Business Review

But when I hit the road in 2008 raising capital for our fairly design-centric venture, The Grommet, I noticed that no investor ever remarked on my industrial design credentials. The school’s appreciation for design’s strategic importance has come a long, long way since those days.

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Corporate Inequality Is the Defining Fact of Business Today

Harvard Business Review

In 2008 Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson wrote about their research on U.S. Most people are used to thinking about inequality as the pay gap between a CEO and an administrative assistant, or a software developer and a manufacturing worker. ” McAfee and Brynjolfsson report something similar in their 2008 HBR article.

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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. and compete successfully.

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