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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

For instance, Amazon has created a cloud services business that enables established firms and startups alike to rent IT infrastructures and processes from Amazon. It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market. APIs and platforms reduces the time-to-market for products and services.

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business Review

But a big and growing challenge is emerging: Once your tech teams have begun to master these new ways of working — improving time to market, continuous learning, responsiveness, and collaboration — they often find that the pace of work they desire is substantially hindered by the lack of agility in HR.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

.” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge. And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. We created an expanded vision of customer partnerships with big, market-driven outcomes that the company could rally behind.