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What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

Harvard Business Review

. “If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you’re going to wake up this morning as a software and analytics company.” As venture capital investor Marc Andreesen pointed out, “software is eating the world.” It appealed to a niche of film nerds. A prime example is Netflix.

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Why Your Employees Should Be Playing With Lego Robots

Harvard Business Review

Two years ago, Swedish communications technology giant Ericsson found itself looking for a way to explain the value it saw in the Internet of Things. Ericsson used Lego Mindstorm robots in a demonstration at the 2012 Mobile World Congress to bring to life its vision of how connected machines might change the way we live.

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“A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job

Harvard Business Review

If the technologies that help us look for a job have changed in significant ways, I reasoned, it’s likely that the ways we get information about jobs have also changed. In the early 1970s it became clear that the most effective way to find a job through networking was to be in touch with as many weak ties as possible.

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software.

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New Year, New Tablet, New Apps

Harvard Business Review

If you were a good girl or boy in 2012, with nary an unanswered email or incomplete task, Santa may have rewarded you with a shiny new tablet under the Christmas tree. The Plex option works best if you've set Plex up as your home media software (which I highly recommend ) and sprung for the PlexPass service.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

’ What they’re really selling: Computer software. Computer software is merely one tool out of many. ’ What they’re really selling: Computer software. My analysis: Productivity software does no good unless one commits to change, alters behavioral traits and commits to time management.

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The Booming Business of Drones

Harvard Business Review

It is estimated that they currently have about seven thousand of them (and Congress asked for about $5 billion worth of more drones in 2012). Imagine the hybrid of aviation, logistics, technology, supply chain management and more that will be required to be an effective employee in the near-future for the drone industry.