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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 Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years

Harvard Business Review

before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. For example, its earliest international expansion, in 2010, was to Canada, which is geographically close to and shares many similarities with the United States.

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 8 Years

Harvard Business Review

before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. For example, its earliest international expansion, in 2010, was to Canada, which is geographically close to and shares many similarities with the United States.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Your Smartphone Works for the Surveillance State

Harvard Business Review

The infamous East German secret police, the Stasi , managed to infiltrate every pay of German life, from factories, to schools, to apartment blocks — the Stasi had eyes and ears everywhere. Technology, on the other hand, makes it much easier. But the technology alone isn''t the problem.

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