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What's The Future Of Business By Brian Solis

Eric Jacobson

You can likely already imagine that I consider this a must-read book for any business owner and any leader -- even leaders who manage businesses that don't directly connect with consumers. Here are his answers : Question : When you consider all the Business-To-Consumer (B2C) companies in the U.S., it's not slowing down.

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Box’s CEO on Pivoting to the Enterprise Market

Harvard Business Review

Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, reflects on the cloud storage company’s entry into the enterprise market. But by staying disciplined with the product and deeply understanding market trends, they’ve made the strategic shift from B2C to B2B work. He was skeptical about pivoting away from consumers, and it was challenging.

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The Internet of Things Needs Design, Not Just Technology

Harvard Business Review

” will be difficult for many companies to achieve — not for lack of technological expertise but because they’ll fail to recognize the value of design in connected product development. applications pushed technology to address B2B market requirements. This evolution to “Internet of Things (IoT) 2.0”

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

For companies, smart cities represent major business opportunities — and not only for tech firms selling systems to government agencies. Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Weighing the three questions below can help business leaders prepare for this shift.

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How Industrial Systems Are Turning into Digital Services

Harvard Business Review

But to Sweden-based SKF Group — the leading company in the $76 billion global market for ball bearing systems — these objects are heroic, destined to become the “brains of rotating machinery” by transmitting data to boost performance, reduce downtime, and prevent accidents. Growing Digital Business.

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The Most Successful Brands Focus on Users — Not Buyers

Harvard Business Review

We also supplemented the survey with well-known brand rankings, Net Promoter Scores (NPS), and an analysis of their marketing expenditures and strategies. Vail Resorts remade their entire marketing strategy with a program called EpicMix. In many organizations, marketing comes after product development.

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Top Line Growth? There's an App for That

Harvard Business Review

While the idea of reaching out to consumers via smartphone apps is clearly not new, companies have been stubbornly hesitant to embrace app technologies. Amazon, and eBay in B2C commerce and Covisint and GS1 in B2B. A brand also has to be aligned with the market profile of the consumer segment. Technology. Think of Yahoo!,

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