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As it brings its bipedal robots to market, Agility announces a $150M round

TechCrunch

Yesterday, Amazon announced that Agility Robotics is one of the five initial startups benefitting from the company’s $1 billion innovation fund. This morning, however, the company raised a massive $150 million Series B , including funds from the aforementioned Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund. That includes a $20.25

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How strategic partnerships are the key to AI-driven innovation

CIO

Innovate or die,” Peter Drucker’s 1985 exhortation on the importance of constant reinvention, was great business advice for the last 40 or so years. Budgets to build new innovations It’s always a challenge to find the budget to build new innovations and platforms when the primary focus of the CIO is to keep the business running.

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Why business resilience depends on software agility

CIO

Technology innovation is happening at breakneck speed, creating new opportunities and threats for companies of all sizes and industries. In this new reality where a bank can go under in two weeks, and new innovations are fundamentally changing our ways of life (e.g., Strong knowledge of open source technologies.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

CIO

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) explained The Scaled Agile Framework encompasses a set of principles, processes, and best practices that helps larger organizations adopt agile methodologies , such as Lean, Kanban, and Scrum , to deliver high-quality products and services faster.

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Cloud-Based Solutions: The Sky Is the Limit for Retail Success

Speaker: Ryan Bryers, SVP of Global Engineering

It's about unlocking unparalleled flexibility and driving business agility. This exclusive webinar with Ryan Bryers will explore the pivotal role of cloud solutions in driving innovation and how they improves the pace, reliability, and predictability of solutions supported by automation. Save your seat today!

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Agile doesn’t create future-proof organizations

Xebia

As companies enter new markets, we see a rise in competition from often unexpected sources. Going Beyond Agile Nobody can deny that the digital revolution has fundamentally changed the way we live in the world. Organizations have to take innovation and agility to the next level to survive in this new age.

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Accelerating innovation with cloud-native apps on Microsoft Cloud

CIO

We spoke with Siddhartha Gupta, Global Head of Application Modernization on Azure at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , about this trend and what financial services organizations need to do to improve their capacity for agility and innovation. They must adopt innovations as soon as they become available.

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The New Tech Toolbelt: Digital Twins, IoT, Cobots, & More

Speaker: Cory Skinner, Founder and CEO of FactR

From limited visibility and a lack of real-time data to a lack of agility and responsiveness to changing market conditions, there's no shortage of difficulties that today's supply chain professionals can encounter. What can be done to not only address these challenges, but overcome them?