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Scaling the post-normal: how investing in IT can accelerate recovery

mjvinnovation

The dream of any company is to scale operations and generate revenue in a sustainable and lean way. Technical support. We provide supervision, allowing a development manager to intervene regularly, in addition to technical support, with a solution architect, a specialist, or even a task force with specific skill sets.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. But, as befits a company that has been around for 130 years, GE is moving on. They have branded it “FastWorks.”

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What I Learned From 10 Years of Doing PR for Apple

Harvard Business Review

If they were having an issue getting something to work we’d have product marketing and technical support on call 24/7 to help. There’s no doubt this approach, applied consistently through some lean but innovation-rich years for Apple, contributed greatly to the company’s dramatic turnaround and success still today.

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Leveraging New Ventures for Innovation

Integrative Innovation

The startups invited to participate in the accelerator are usually on the verge of launching revenue-generating activities, and the corporate sponsor promotes their development by granting them access to office space, technical support, high-quality mentoring, networks of other startups, and funding sources.