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Why You Should Fold On Status Quo Software Lifecycles And Bet On Quick Wins

February 18, 2021

Alpha, beta, prototype, MVP, MVE, pilot – what these mean to any given business is anyone’s guess, including the teams building them. Having disconnects among business leaders? Me too, but there are more outcome-oriented approaches to product management (like Headstorm’s Foundry), and I want to tell you all about how they can transform your software lifecycle. But first, I want to talk about a psychological

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Why You Should Fold On Status Quo Software Lifecycles And Bet On Quick Wins

Alpha, beta, prototype, MVP, MVE, pilot – what these mean to any given business is anyone’s guess, including the teams building them. Having disconnects among business leaders? Me too,

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Democratizing insights & data

Data insights model comprised of company key performance indicators for sales operations

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Ransomware Impacts Across Industries: 2020 Lookback

No one wants to hear “it’s an exciting time in cybersecurity”, but that’s certainly been the case in 2020. We covered a slew of sector-specific

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How Leaders Prioritize Their Lives: The 20-10-10 Exercise

If you’ve got thirty minutes, zero dollars to spare, and have admitted your life is not worth spending doing things you don’t love — you

Tagging AWS infrastructure for security, costing, and resource identification

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Tagging unstructured data

Tagging AWS infrastructure for security, costing, and resource identification

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Complying with complexity

Ensuring compliance of complex national regulations

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Comparing & predicting

Compare farm yields to benchmark data, validate farm management decisions

Hands cupped together holding planting soil

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Trace Genomics: Rapid Prototyping

Rapid prototyping, product strategy, agile training

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S.E.T. for Success in AgTech: Scalability

Scalability is especially relevant for AgTech companies as increasing consumer demand, continuous technology advancements, and shifting macro-economic trends create new opportunities to expand revenue, customer bases, and win new industry segments.

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The Future of AgTech is S.E.T.

The stage is set for the next great wave of innovation to set the modern farmer up for sustained success and feed future generations.

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Transforming payroll

Unlocking business growth through operational process automation and technology modernization

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Conceptualizing A Path To Data-Driven Transformation

Data has permeated business operations so rapidly that companies often presume they’ve become a data-driven organization when, on principle, they are not. In fact, some

unifying and digitizing data for a staffing company

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Unifying & digitizing data

Unifying scattered data sources and digitizing manual processes

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Zero to Safety: Technology and the CIA Triad

I recently helped a client dealing with a security breach. They had implemented a new tool, but never swapped the keys from the trial version

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Modernizing & securing data

Improving workforce performance, order/billing mgmt. security and processes, and visibility of performance metrics

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Reimagining the Physician Experience

Giving physicians a low-friction mobile solution to simplify patient management and team communication

Kurb Collaborative Planning: Before & After

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Webinar Recap: City of Pittsburgh + Kurb.io Debut Realtime Outdoor Space Planning

Headstorm and Pittsburgh’s Department Of Mobility & Infrastructure recently introduced Kurb.io to an international audience of urban planners, smart city tech firms, and community organizations.

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S.E.T. for Success in AgTech: Transformation

The Transformation of a business requires a balance of technology, company culture, and measuring outcomes and value drivers.

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Innovator Interview: Ariel Zajdband (Trace Genomics, Planet) On AgTech

We recently got the chance to sit down with Ariel Zajdband — one of our wonderful clients from his Trace Genomics days, now presiding as the Agriculture SME for Planet. As someone who’s advised on improving farming operations with both micro

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S.E.T for Success in AgTech: Enablement

Today, enablement may come in the form of enabling agronomists to make better decisions through richer soil testing or enabling growers to plan more efficiently through digital, real-time interfaces.

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Going global (i18n)

Expanding site function to new global markets

We’ve talked about applying the CIA Triad to people & technology. Here we analyze the cornerstone of zero trust -- process.

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Zero Trust: Process and the CIA Triad

Even for successful companies, 2020 has been a giant, eight-month punch in the mouth. Plans have been made, scrapped, re-made, and scrapped again.

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For Staffing and Recruiting Industries, The Time to Change Is Now

In the staffing and recruiting industries, change had already begun pre-COVID, and now the stakes are high as winners and losers are already being declared.

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IoT & data pipelines

Leveraging mobile technology for a custom health and wellness solution

We successfully launched the application in under 3 months, while improving data quality, seed name accuracy, and back-end efficiency.

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Augmenting data classification

We successfully launched the application in under 3 months, while improving data quality, seed name accuracy, and back-end efficiency.

Assessing the impact and likelihood that different parts of your supply chain has lets you know how to effectively perform supply chain risk management

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Every Supply Chain Is An Island… Or Is It?

Supply chain attacks are referred to as ‘island hopping’, as the attackers hop between links in the supply chain and infect new organizations — but that seems like a misnomer with the transmissibility of these attacks.

Informing acquisition decisions with technical due diligence

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Acquisition due diligence

Informing acquisition decisions with technical due diligence

Four combines harvesting crops at sunset

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Farmer Marketplace

Enabling seed dealers and growers to improve yields and customer experience

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Modern Moves In Logistics: From EDI To API

There’s always a faster route, a smoother transfer, a cheaper process – and that means stitching together a network of global partners who demand surgical coordination.

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Curantis: E2E hospice care

Process improvement, field reporting, order management for EMRs

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Zero to Safety: People and the CIA Triad

Your employees are your organization’s greatest security threat, but also your organization’s greatest security opportunity.

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Assessing new revenue

Advising a fast-growing company on scale-ready technology

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Why Rural Broadband Will Decide Who Wins AgTech

All other craziness aside, 2020 has been a painful reminder that America ranks 11th (and dropping) in broadband access. The U.S. isn’t exactly a haven for the work-from-home movement, especially in rural

Enabling engaging, personalized marketing through modern tech and processes

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Lending, personalized

Enabling engaging, personalized marketing through modern tech and processes

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Modular framework

Prepping fragmented web apps for efficient, scalable integrations

A place for our thoughts, ideas, projects and opinions.

A place for our thoughts,
ideas, projects and opinions.