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Weekly recap: 20 great ideas to steal, the growing importance of business agility, and more…

EducationEvery week, I share the most interesting and useful tech articles that I’ve found over the past week. This week’s top articles focus on great tech ideas, the growing importance of business agility, and more. I hope you find them useful:

Make Business Agility A Key Corporate Attribute – It Could Be What Saves You
Here’s an amazing stat: 70% of the companies on the fortune 1,000 list a decade ago have now vanished. Why? They couldn’t adapt to change. Agility is quickly becoming a critical aspect of business, and one that you can’t ignore (if you want to survive).

20 great ideas to steal in 2013
Here’s a some of the best examples of innovation of the past year, which may just give you some ideas to implement in your company. You’ll read about UPS’ custom software that saved 8.4 million gallons of fuel, the Salvation Army’s mobile web app that helps track sales and donations, and many more. I’d like to add one more to the mix: Midland Medical’s new inventory tracking system, that saves hours of time while using off-the-shelf parts.

Mobility brings changing roles for CIOs, Workers and Businesses
Just like the internet revolutionized business, mobile changes the way we work. While it’s been building steam over the past few years, mobile is on the verge of exploding in the enterprise. How will it change business? Or, perhaps a better question: How will your company adapt to the mobile trend?

How to breathe life into your stale ERP system
It’s a common problem: You’re stuck with an old ERP system that you can’t replace. Why? Your business depends on that system. Replacement requires hundreds of thousands of dollars, months of work, and comes filled with risks. However, running your business on an old system hurts your agility and keeps you from modern features. What can you do? Here’s one method that breathes new life into your old ERP system, without all the risk, high costs, and time.