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Patents, Copyrights and Innovation, Oh My!

Coaching Tip

By enabling the nearly costless distribution of perfect copies of music, books, and movies, digital technologies intensified a behavioral enigma that always lay at the heart of copyright law. Source: Roger Parloff , senior editor, FORTUNE, July 23, 2012. These works are what economists call public goods.

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Applying Deming’s Management Ideas at the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company

Deming Institute

This webcast shows Bob Browne ’s presentation, Profound Knowledge of the Real Thing, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. If we had better technology would we know what to do with it? by Will Rogers, or somebody else. Guest post by John Hunter. Bob is the former CEO of the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company.

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Judgment Calls: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Davenport and Brook Manville Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why to take full and systematic advantage of technology and analytics to create deeper and more sustainable judgment To introduce this review, I call upon Peter Drucker: “There is [.].

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Judgment Calls: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Davenport and Brook Manville Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why to take full and systematic advantage of technology and analytics to create deeper and more sustainable judgment To introduce this review, I call upon Peter Drucker: “There is [.].

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What It’s Like When a Stay-at-Home Dad Goes Back to Work

Harvard Business Review

With a PhD in molecular biology from Columbia University, Roger had published a paper in Nature and was pursuing a promising career as an assistant professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School. In 2012 only about 21% (420,000) of the 2,000,000 stay-at-home fathers in the U.S. That was a decade ago. It’s a small club.

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

Harvard Business Review

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe.

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33 HBR Blog Posts You Should Read Before 2013

Harvard Business Review

HBR's editors have compiled a list of some of our — and your — favorite of the nearly 2000 blog posts we published in 2012. Roger Martin. Looking for a Job When You're No Longer Young. Anne Kreamer. How to (Finally) Quit Your Job. Daniel Gulati. The Robots Coming for Your Job. Andy McAfee. Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

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