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		<title>Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt is a well-known business and strategy book from 2011. Its central concept is focus — and more precisely, focus + asymmetry: finding where a small, well-directed push moves the system far more than &#8230; <a href="https://itsadeliverything.com/good-strategy-bad-strategy-the-difference-and-why-it-matters-by-richard-rumelt">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Squeeze to Sell: Inside the PE Value Creation Playbook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 05:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you’ve worked in or around private equity (PE) companies, you’ll know it’s all about value creation. PE firms make their money by buying businesses, increasing their value, and selling them at a premium. They’re experts at creating value under &#8230; <a href="https://itsadeliverything.com/squeeze-to-sell-inside-the-pe-value-creation-playbook">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Value Creation: The Engine Behind Sustainable Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 05:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Private equity firms live and breathe value creation — it’s how they make their money. But they’re not the only ones who should care. Every business leader should be thinking about value creation. Yet, surprisingly, many aren’t. So what is &#8230; <a href="https://itsadeliverything.com/value-creation-the-engine-behind-sustainable-growth">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>You Know Something’s Off. The 3F Health Check Shows You Where</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Thomas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 3F Health Check is a fast, human-centred diagnostic that reveals what’s really holding your business back—across leadership, culture, strategy, and execution. Over the past few years, I’ve seen companies spend months chasing clarity — on priorities, culture, execution—only to &#8230; <a href="https://itsadeliverything.com/you-know-somethings-off-the-3f-health-check-shows-you-where">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AI Isn’t Magic — It’s a Stack</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Thomas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 05:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence. Two words that trigger everything from excited coffee chats with my mates to boardroom FOMO to outright apocalyptic fear. AI has dominated every conversation I’ve had for the last six months. Everyone wants a slice of it. It &#8230; <a href="https://itsadeliverything.com/ai-isnt-magic-its-a-stack">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bold Predictions or Hype? Tech CEOs on AI&#8217;s Impact on Software Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 05:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never seen a hype cycle like this one. Huge sound bites about AI — specifically, generative AI. Depending on who you ask, AI is either a helpful copilot or it’s gunning for your entire dev team’s jobs. As usual &#8230; <a href="https://itsadeliverything.com/bold-predictions-or-hype-tech-ceos-on-ais-impact-on-software-development">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Another Silver Bullet? What AI Tools Can Learn from the Last 50 Years of Developer Hype</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 05:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The emergence of AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet has stirred debate about their long-term impact on software development. I’ve been in this game a while, which means I approach software innovation with &#8230; <a href="https://itsadeliverything.com/another-silver-bullet-what-ai-tools-can-learn-from-the-last-50-years-of-developer-hype">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Software Development Can Learn from Double-Entry Bookkeeping</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Thomas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 05:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Double-entry bookkeeping revolutionised business by introducing a self-checking system of financial integrity. In the world of software, Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) does something strikingly similar — pairing each feature with a clear, testable description of how it should behave. Double-entry bookkeeping &#8230; <a href="https://itsadeliverything.com/what-software-development-can-learn-from-double-entry-bookkeeping">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Disaster, rescue and recovery: Kickstarting delivery</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Thomas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 05:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[70% of projects fail to deliver — and the cost is more than financial. Few broken programmes crash in a spectacular fashion. Most just quietly stall. You’ve got a roadmap. You’ve got people. You’ve got the rituals. But&#8230; nothing’s really &#8230; <a href="https://itsadeliverything.com/disaster-rescue-and-recovery-kickstarting-delivery">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Choosing the Right Nearshoring Location: 9 Essential Criteria</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Thomas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 05:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m based in London, UK, but I&#8217;ve had teams in South America, USA, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, and India. Some of those locations worked for me and some didn&#8217;t. In 2017 I opened a software development operation &#8230; <a href="https://itsadeliverything.com/choosing-the-right-nearshoring-location-9-essential-criteria">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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