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Innovate Forward

Leading Blog

Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. To streamline operations and control costs. He was born in the U.K.

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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

The solution is machine learning —computers automatically discovering patterns and developing new knowledge by furiously feeding on modern society's greatest and most potent unnatural resource : data. have business models that hinge on predictive models based on machine learning. Vegetarians miss fewer flights.

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Simple Rules for Sustainable Business Growth

Skip Prichard

Ruth King has a passion for helping business achieve that lasting financial success. She started the Women’s Entrepreneurial Center and the Decatur, Georgia branch of the Small Business Development Center. And, in these times, there is a fourth: The government shuts down all businesses with the exception of essential services.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Lead author of Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , which sold over one million copies in 37 languages. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Formerly SVP in charge of wireless communication.

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We Need to Expand the Definition of Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Without the internet and wireless communications, car rental by the hour was an impossibly expensive and tedious transaction for such a small increment of time. Founded back in 2000, Zipcar effectively modeled how technology could be applied to open up entirely new markets, as well as new ways of using existing assets. ” I agree!

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies.

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Mobile Money Is Driving Africa’s Cashless Future

Harvard Business Review

Many companies are taking advantage of this opportunity to steer emerging African economies toward a mobile-driven, cashless (or cash lite) future by introducing a slew of new products, services, and business models. ” This has been driving ever closer relationships between banks and mobile operators.