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7 Reasons Why You Can’t Do It Yourself

Strategy Driven

Unfortunately, for solo entrepreneurs, technology serves a dual purpose, acting both as a fit-for-purpose tool and an advisor. Just as anybody can use a hammer, only trained professionals can build a house. Ideally, you want to reach out to a professional or develop your web building skills accordingly.

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Change management and sales: influencing the buying decision path

Strategy Driven

We are holding a hammer, waiting for the time when they are ready with a nail. I actually developed a pre-sales model that facilitates a buyer’s change management process call Buying Facilitation®. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. But this is a much more efficient way to do this.

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Are Your Employees Drivers or Victims of Process Innovations?

Harvard Business Review

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Hammer's thinking was very powerful, but I'd challenge that last point.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

Harvard Business Review

Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. The businesses most at risk from platforms powered by rapidly improving online technologies aren’t, in fact, traditional businesses that sell products and services to consumers.

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Please Don’t Hire a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer

Harvard Business Review

Every serious technology company now has an Artificial Intelligence team in place. As the market has matured, AI is beginning to move into enterprises that will use it but not develop it on their own. The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around. Insight Center.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail.