The High-Tech Industry: Leveraging Disruption to Capitalize on Opportunity - SPONSORED CONTENT FROM Wipro
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In years past, technological disruption meant having to retrain IT teams to use innovative tools or new programming languages—a difficult feat but one largely involving a company's server managers and code crusaders. 'But that's not what's going on today,' says Geoffrey Moore, a San Francisco-based consultant to the high-tech industry and author of Zone to Win: Organizing to Compete in an Age of Disruption.
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