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The Sectors Where the Internet of Things Really Matters

Harvard Business Review

Innovative products like fitness trackers and Google’s Nest thermostats are demonstrating the potential for both consumers and enterprises. Early adopters in these verticals are using the IoT to pioneer new product areas and to find efficiencies that save money or reduce demand for resources.

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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. appeared in an IBM investor briefing.

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How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers

Harvard Business Review

Like digital platforms, social media, martech, fintech, and numerous other innovations, the spoils of blockchain may go to early adopters who commit to ruthless innovation. By 2020, it is estimated that ad-blocking adoption will cost publishers $35 billion. Related Video. The power of a distributed ledger.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business Review

They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. Retail e-commerce sales worldwide are expected to hit $4 trillion by 2020 , about double of where it is now. Innovation and change. that help propagate new products, ideas and business models?).

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. By November 2010, we launched the 1M/1M website, including an early version of the premium program.