Recent Articles
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What is Django and why is it great for creating websites?
Many websites today are created with drag-and-drop platforms such as WordPress and Joomla, but there are advantages to using a coded approach with tools like Django. Python is one of the most popular programming languages today, and Django is a tool used by Python developers to facilitate the web development process. Read on to learn how Django helps developers create fully customisable websites...
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Lean startups: The Build-Measure-Learn cycle
The primary process for lean startups is the Build-Measure-Learn cycle. This process has been the key for many lean startups to develop lasting success. Startups carry out the cycle quickly and thoroughly to refine the idea for a product into something actual customers desire.
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Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners – How Innovation Works
Researcher Simon Wardley derived the Pioneer, Settler, Town Planner (PST) concept from Robert Cringely's Accidental Empires as an organisational model for how to support repeated, long-term innovation. It transforms traditional organizational structures into cell-based organizational structures.
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How Can the Wardley Value Chain Mapping Method Help Your Startup?
Geneticist turned CEO Simon Wardley uses his copious research skills to craft better ways his company can strategize and develop. One of his favorite methods of tracking current processes and forecasting their development can help your startup, too. His take on value chain mapping turns a simple flowchart creation into a tool for organizational learning and change, as well as a strategic methodology tool.
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Innovation, Startups & Being an Entrepreneur (or Intrapreneur)
Good ideas power the world. But a good idea isn't enough to create change in the world. To create something new, something world-changing, a new idea has to take a form that fits the needs of enough people. Ideally, at least in a business, enough people who want to pay for it!
Technology and startup culture has transformed the world of innovation from gut hunches and experienced intuition to something more like science. Entrepreneurs in the 21st Century form hypotheses and test them to see if their hunches will survive the reality of the market.
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