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The Mixed Returns From Predictive Analytics

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers assessed a representative sample of manufacturing plants in the United States in 2010 and 2015, with a survey asking them about their use of predictive analytics, their management practices, the use of data in their decision-making, and the general design of their production process. Strong returns.

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How Being A Generalist Can Help You Adapt And Innovate

The Horizons Tracker

I’ve written a few times recently about the importance of breaking free from the straitjacket of our increasingly specialized world, and adopting a more generalist approach to skills development. One of the core benefits from this approach is that it allows us to be more innovative. How do you get promoted? Driving innovation.

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Three reasons pms need an iphone

Lead on Purpose

However, five weeks ago I purchased an iPhone 3GS (granted, I’m not an early adopter) and the experience has been phenomenal. In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing.

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On Undo's Undue Importance

Harvard Business Review

Its appearance marks a markets' phase transition from early adopters to mega-profits. In 1986, Lotus Development Corporation announced the latest version of its (at the time) wildly popular 1-2-3 spreadsheet, one that now sported a spiffy new "undo" feature. Because early adopters are used to products that break.

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business Review

Consider some of these numbers: In 2010, Ericsson set the bar for much of the subsequent IoT hype by predicting there would be 50 billion internet-connected devices by 2020. We began selling this new smart fan option and had several thousand excited early adopters. Ask yourself these questions first.

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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, J.P Morgan projected up to $1T in investment would be deployed this decade — which would make impact investing twice the size of official development aid to the world’s less develop countries (as defined by the United Nations) , presuming historic levels of aid stayed constant since 2010.

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years

Harvard Business Review

before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. For example, its earliest international expansion, in 2010, was to Canada, which is geographically close to and shares many similarities with the United States. It has been developing relationships with device makers, mobile and TV operators, and internet service providers as well.