Poll of the Week: Do You Have a a Disaster Recovery Plan? March 12, 2010
Posted by Meg Sewell in Poll of the Week.Tags: disaster recovery, disaster recovery capability, disaster recovery plan
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Today we’d like to hear about your Disaster Recovery Capability. Is it well defined or non-existent?
Ray Riescher Featured On the Agile Executive March 10, 2010
Posted by Meg Sewell in Inovis Solutions.Tags: Agile, all in, Erik Huddleston, Ray Riescher, SCRUM, software development, The Agile Executive
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Ray Riescher is a Business Process Manager at Inovis that is heavily invested in our SCRUM movement. Recently, Ray contributed a piece to the Agile Executive about how Inovis adopted the “All in!” strategy used by Erik Huddleston to streamline and transform our company’s software engineering process. Here is an excerpt from The Agile Flywheel.
We dove head first into Agile Scrum and adapted to it very quickly. However, it wasn’t until we landed a very large and demanding customer that Scrum was really put to the test. New enhancements, new features, and new configurations were all needed ASAP. Scrum delivered with rapid development and deployment in the form of releases that were moving into production with amazing velocity. Our release cadence hit warp drive and at one point we experienced several months where multiple teams’ production releases were deploying at the end of every two week sprint.
How Businesses are Successfully Adapting to The Economy March 9, 2010
Posted by Meg Sewell in Inovis Solutions, Supply Chain Visibility.Tags: Ernst and Young survey, global, Supply Chain Brain
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Last week, we asked you to answer our poll about your experiences in 2010 thus far. Over on Supply Chain Brain, Bill Methinitis and Nathan Gollaher have written an article about how companies are reacting to the global economic crisis by reshaping the way they do their business.
According to a survey released by Ernst and Young of more than 300 C-suite and board-level executives, businesses are seeking to improve performance through entry into new geographic markets, moving operations to lower cost markets, making strategic acquisitions and making other fundamental changes to the business model. The companies that have avoided broad business changes in the past are now looking into new processes and methods to breathe more life into their business.
For global organizations looking into reshaping their businesses, here are some important factors to consider:
Reader Feedback: What Are Your Favorite Blogs? March 5, 2010
Posted by Meg Sewell in question of the week.Tags: B2B, blogs, e-commerce, Managed File Transfer, MFT, supply chains
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The Inovis Blog is always looking to extend our online network. We’d love to know all of those great blogs out there that provide helpful reads and other sites with great information about the supply chain, MFT and B2B matters. What are your favorite industry related blogs, message boards or social sites?
If you’d prefer to open a discussion with other industry professionals, the Inovis Linkedin Group is asking the same question today. We’re always looking for great and inspiring folks to add to our network and we appreciate your referrals.
Happy Friday!
