September 2017 - David Gale

Agile Development: Planning for Sprint Success

By David Gale | September 21, 2017

When I was 16, I had the opportunity to go white water canoeing on the New River in North Carolina. As adventurous Boy Scouts, my friends and I were anxious to hit the river and take our chances with the rapids. We were all in good health, strong swimmers and had been canoeing for years.…

Kodak, GM and the Importance of Innovation

By David Gale | September 1, 2017

In 1881, a “not especially gifted” high school dropout named George Eastman started up the Eastman Dry Plate Company. He did so with four bedrock principles: Focus on the customer – pay attention to what they tell you Mass produce the product at the cheapest price possible so customers will invent new uses for it…