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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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Reimagining the Physician Experience

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

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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,

unifying and digitizing data for a staffing company

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Unifying & digitizing data

Unifying scattered data sources and digitizing manual processes

Informing acquisition decisions with technical due diligence

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Acquisition due diligence

Informing acquisition decisions with technical due diligence

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Digital Attackers in Staffing

The staffing industry will continue to rapidly evolve with new types of digital services provided to employers and temp associates.

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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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Productizing innovation

Creating and launching a first-of-its-kind mobile application

Hands cupped together holding planting soil

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Trace Genomics: Rapid Prototyping

Rapid prototyping, product strategy, agile training

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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

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.

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Democratizing insights & data

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

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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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

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Time to Digitalize Your Recruitment Process

All interactions that previously required in-person activities to take place must be replaced with a digitalized version to keep processes, and your business, moving forward.

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Advising for scale

Advising a fast-growing company on scale-ready technology

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Sales Isn’t A Job, It’s A Shared Language. Here’s How We Know.

Guidance on aligning sales, product and engineering for sales-led transformation. Plus, some book & video recos to catch you up.

Ariel-Zajdband-Interview with Lawrence King

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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: Transformation

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

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Curantis: E2E hospice care

Process improvement, field reporting, order management for EMRs

Freshly plowed field on a farm with blue and green hexagonal computer overlays

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Data Pipelines and Marketplaces

Improving agronomic data quality and creating a single source of truth

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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Modernizing & securing data

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

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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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Comparing & predicting

Compare farm yields to benchmark data, validate farm management decisions

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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

Here, we analyze building a cybersecurity culture requires an innovative approach to assessing your current security model.

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Zero to Safety: How to Build a Cybersecurity Culture

To thrive in a post-COVID world, leaders need to be less reactive and reliant on technology-only solutions, instead taking a proactive, cultural approach to security through deep examination of their existing practices.

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Assessing new revenue

Advising a fast-growing company on scale-ready technology

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IoT & data pipelines

Leveraging mobile technology for a custom health and wellness solution

We delivered an efficient and reliable orchestration layer that allowed our client’s platform to scale with both internal teams and 3rd parties faster than ever.

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Optimizing microservices

We delivered an efficient and reliable orchestration layer that allowed our client’s platform to scale with both internal teams and 3rd parties faster than ever.