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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2020

Leading Blog

Experimentation Works : The Surprising Power of Business Experiments by Stefan H. When it comes to improving customer experiences, trying out new business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. Running disciplined business experiments. In B2B and B2C?

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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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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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Box’s CEO on Pivoting to the Enterprise Market

Harvard Business Review

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. Download this podcast.

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The Industries That Are Being Disrupted the Most by Digital

Harvard Business Review

As digital technologies continue to transform the economy, many leaders are struggling to set a digital strategy, shift organizational structures, and remove the barriers that are keeping them from maximizing the potential impact of new digital technologies. They are often brought in to disrupt traditional thinking and business models.

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How Industrial Systems Are Turning into Digital Services

Harvard Business Review

Yet even though SKF has a century-long track record of keeping the wheels of industry turning, this new vision of bearings with brains by no means assures that SKF will prosper in the changeover in technology represented by the internet of things, in which every conceivable object can become a node on the net. Growing Digital Business.

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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. But now the range of possibilities has gotten bigger, and B2C or even B2G2C business models are growing more common.