Under an agile plan, you take every opportunity to improve your design and coding. Little by little, use every opportunity you do maintenance, to advance ‘the cause.’ This minimizes the Technical Debts. And you can also implement specifics updates modernizing what you have
Product-obsessed engineers and always-racing-somewhere entrepreneurs aren’t generally known for having the open, engaging and empowering management style that seems so critical in business today. Still, entrepreneurs thrive on change, so understanding people – and helping them grow – is just one more skill set we have to adopt.
The truth is that innovation needs exploration and that’s never efficient nor can it be optimized, but it can be done cheaply enough to be sustainable. Today we need to manage not for stability, but for disruption. So instead of just planning against established metrics, we also need to continually ask what we’re doing to explore the unknown. Not all who wander are lost.
Outsourcing v/s In-sourcing – Outsource versus Insourcing decisions have a lasting impact and must be well thought out. The decision-making process must be both robust and carefully managed.
Intensive competition, fast technological change, and shortened product life cycles are just a few of the recurring challenges faced by many firms in today’s competitive markets. In last decade many western manufacturing firms have increased outsourcing of component parts and services to independent, external suppliers, while focusing on core capabilities to face these challenges. Such firms may then become reliant on a supply chain performance consisting of suppliers of varying levels of performance to provide competitive services or products. Therefore, their suppliers’ performance is increasingly critical to the long-term success for firms supply chain.
The market has a lot of options for AM and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), but there is not enough integration between them. Many companies use Team Foundation Server from MS and an amalgamation of AM and testing tools, but the ability to integrate them is difficult. They all provide value, but are resource (people) intensive and for a small development organization, they are expensive to use as a consequence. The ability to integrate most of them with cloud solutions or APIs is also very limiting.
Sales Intelligence Is More than Smart Selling – Acquiring comprehensive lead and customer data is no longer the end-game for Best-in-Class companies. Among selling organizations of all maturity classes, the use of CRM tools is near universal, according to the report; what separates the cream from the crop is how organizations implement the deployment of add-on technologies such as sales intelligence solutions.
Globalization 4.0 has only just begun, but we are already vastly underprepared for it. Clinging to an outdated mindset and tinkering with our existing processes and institutions will not do. Rather, we need to redesign them from the ground up, so that we can capitalize on the new opportunities that await us, while avoiding the kind of disruptions that we are witnessing today.
I had interaction with one of my friend who recently joined one of the top reputed business houses of India. It is known for its history, culture, corporate values, and ethics. We discussed many things about the Organization (Turnover, Competitors, Geographical reach and his profile etc.). However, I was more interested in knowing the Organization…
India’s economy and business landscape are changing, ushering in a period of growth, prosperity and investment opportunities. All the ingredients are in place for India to become a world leader investment destination. Let’s look a little more closely at just a few of the more compelling reasons why investing in India is an opportunity you…