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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. billion stake.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

The methodology is Continuous Development, which, like agile, began as a software development methodology. Rather than improving software in one large batch, updates are made continuously, piece-by-piece, enabling software code to be delivered to customers as soon as it is completed and tested.

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Building More Trust Between Doctors and Patients

Harvard Business Review

In January 2016, Ash (not her real name) turned up in Emergency for pain and severe difficulty walking. After the neurological admission in 2016, Ash was referred to the Agile Psychological Medicine Clinic. And, significantly, the proportion of patients in the group re-presenting themselves during treatment has decreased by 30%.

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How India Is Moving Toward a Digital-First Economy

Harvard Business Review

On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that had no other government had attempted before at the same scale: it decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation. Ashima Narula/EyeEm/Getty Images. Digital Transformation in Government Does Not Happen Quickly.

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How a Startup Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital Helps Doctors Launch Companies

Harvard Business Review

While it’s still early days (we launched this accelerator in early 2016), we believe the accelerator has scored enough successes to prove that the model can work. To ensure rapid iteration, we paired the ER staff with two software architects, a user-experience designer, a visual designer, a business analyst, and a project manager.

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Why Peter Drucker’s Writing Still Feels So Relevant

Harvard Business Review

” Drucker did indeed inhabit such a village, and that cosmopolitanism surely helped him develop some of his trademark perspective. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum.