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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

have business models that hinge on predictive models based on machine learning. Professor Vasant Dhar, Stern School of Business, NYU. UK grocery giant Tesco predicts which discounts will be redeemed in order to target over 100 million personalized coupons annually at cash registers across 13 countries.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects.

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Moving from Transaction to Engagement

Harvard Business Review

Armed with the art of the possible, innovators are seeking to apply disruptive consumer technologies to enterprise class uses — call it the consumerization of IT in the enterprise. The likely results include new methods of furthering relationships, crafting longer term engagement, and creating transformational business models.

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Is Your Company Experiencing Good Times? Time for a Plan B

Harvard Business Review

One act plays have their place in theater, but are generally not a desirable descriptor for a career or business. They are one of the major drivers of innovation and disruption; new priorities arise, creating unmet needs and open playing fields not yet overrun with competitors. What’s not to love?

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.