Imagining a world where the Waterfall and Agile software development methodologies commingle with ease can be difficult—the former is characterized by careful planning and discrete goals, while the latter is defined by flexibility and iterative targets. As such, when teams […]
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There are times when I truly wonder if boards are staffed with idiots. The contrast between NVIDIA and Yahoo is stark. NVIDIA is a hardware-based company in an internet world and Yahoo is one of the founding internet companies, yet
The right data–used in the right way–can be crucial to making effective business decisions. Gathering the wrong metrics, or gathering too much data with no intelligent way to separate important or actionable information from trivial data can be devastating. Metrics
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Decision-making is the very essence of business. Decisions matter, from setting out a company’s high-level strategic vision to executing on its most basic daily operations. Every decision is accompanied by uncertainty and risk, because decision-makers must simultaneously decide which paths
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Four more states voted to make recreational marijuana use legal this year. It is still completely illegal in half of the country, and legal only for medical use in most states that allow it at all, but the movement is
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As the customer-centric approach has gained steam, business owners the world over have been intrigued by the purported benefits. But the big question hovers for many—does this approach really work? Well, the answer depends on how you think corporations like
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I had a ball at the Mercedes Advanced Driving Academy this week but, as I thought about it, they took a ton of avoidable risks that likely contributed to the one accident we had and the loss of a $70K
Setting objectives (and actually sticking to them) is crucial for your business. Objectives will give you and everyone in your company a very clear picture of what you’re working towards, and could be the difference between your company nose-diving or
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There are a lot of good reasons to embrace DevOps, but that doesn’t mean that every company is ready to jump into the DevOps deep end. It’s important to understand what you expect to get out of DevOps–what goals you
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Ask any security manager how they currently analyze cyber security data. Chances are they’ll describe a mad dash of manual efforts that involve pulling volumes of disparate data together for either ad-hoc requests coming from upper management, or quarterly reports
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