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What Are the Industries That Benefit Most from Big Data?

Smart Data Collective

Big Data can also reduce costs, and it empowers medical professionals to focus on what they do best instead of worrying about analyzing paperwork. It was only after specialized tools started being used that recruitment became more streamlined and more agile. But, beyond these administrative perks, Big Data can literally save lives.

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What Would an Agile Human Resources Department Do?

Vitality Chicago

Human Resources may not be what comes to mind when you think Agile. The policies created by the HR team at Netflix were innovative and a key enabler to growth and agility. Even if you aren’t Netflix, there HR can still lead agility. There are two key ways that HR can embrace agility. How can HR enable agile?

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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

Despite cost-cutting being the main reason why most companies shift to the cloud, that is not the only benefit they walk away with. While that allows easy access to users, and saves costs, the cloud is much more and beyond that. IBM had introduced the concept of Virtual Machines (VMs) almost a decade before the birth of the internet.

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Moving to the cloud? Choose cloud service providers wisely

Analysts Corner

Is it because of cost-saving and pursuit of flexibility? As a result, you benefit from agility, scalability, and cost reduction. But such an environment comes with added complexity and obviously, will cost you a pretty penny. Cloud is not a new technology. It’s been around for a couple of decades now. and rightly so.

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An Assessment of Modern Agile Assessment Tools

Vitality Chicago

Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about agile assessment tools. Whether it is comparative agility or the AgilityHealth assessment, it seems that people want to be able to measure the relative agility of one or more of their teams. Most agile coaches that I know have developed some form of assessment.

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Hidden Business Rules in Legacy Code

Leading Agile

Looking back over the course of the “agile” movement, it seems to me that larger companies began to take a serious interest in “going agile” once the idea reached the Early Adopter phase of the diffusion of innovations curve, and looked as if it was not going to fizzle out.

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150+ Top Global Cloud Thought Leaders and Next Generation Leaders of 2021

Whizlabs

Rick is a well experienced CTO who can offer cloud computing strategies and services to reduce IT operational costs and thus improve the efficiency. He guest blogs at Oracle, IBM, HP, SAP, SAGE, Huawei, Commvault, Equinix, Cloudtech. He is currently working on his next book – Agile Digital Transformation.