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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

The researchers looked specifically at the development of the Microsoft Kinect, which was released back in 2010 as an accessory to the Xbox gaming console. Last, but not least, they created a timeline of publications where the Kinect technology was used to determine who the early adopters were. 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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Prices are always relative… | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

So the best would be to set a higher price first and then get all the early adopters to get in the game. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) What is remembered is the decrease from $5 to $3 – sounds like a bargain. In case of new offerings like iPhone and Kindle , there is no precedence.

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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. Because early adopters are used to products that break. They mostly don't care about being able to step back from the brink — that's the price they pay for being early adopters. The feature?

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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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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.