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This is What Keeps Most CEO’s Up at Night

Lead from Within

The opportunity to lead people from the top, develop strategies, and make an impact in the world is an exciting prospect for many people. Here is a little insight into the things that trouble CEOs: The human reality of leadership. Creating new business models in light of disruptive technologies. Talent management.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business Review

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Each of the potential business benefits of 3D printing carries tax implications that could alter the equation for any anticipated operating efficiency or return on investment.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Our research shows that companies with platform- and network-based business models are exponentially better at creating value. Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Human capital.

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3 Changes Retailers Need to Make to Survive

Harvard Business Review

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

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Predictive Medicine Depends on Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. The new business model has yet to solidify, and the leaders have yet to emerge. Medtronic is using big data and advanced analytics to drive their approach to patient and physician support and manage supply chains.

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How the Internet of Things Changes Everything

Harvard Business Review

Currently in the business world we are witnessing something like the epic collision of two galaxies — a rapid convergence of two very unlike systems that will cause the elements of both to realign. For managers, this development creates challenges both long term and urgent. It''s all thanks to the Internet of Things.

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Corporate Sustainability Efforts: Feast or Famine?

Harvard Business Review

For them, sustainability is a thing to tackle, a functional area; it's a what , like marketing or product development. No, I'm talking here about the more prosaic, everyday, tactical, blocking-and-tackling of business. I've seen it time and again in the companies that I work with or study.