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New Year Entertainment: Predictions, Forecasts, and Projections

The Practical Leader

Technology is a major driving of change and is changing very unpredictably as we see in these forecasts: Lee DeForest, the “father of radio,” said in 1926 “While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.”

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To Make Better Decisions, Combine Datasets

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, as I argued in Harvard Business Review , complex systems with their continually changing interrelationships often defy understanding by using conventional means. Decision making Information & technology Strategy' This in turn creates the opportunity for strategic action. Beware Big Data’s Easy Answers.

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Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Another urged executives to “continue to educate themselves commercially, financially, and operationally.”. Some argued that merely keeping pace with industry and market changes is inadequate; an executive must anticipate change. The costs of not doing so—not continuously changing and evolving—are likely to be high.