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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business Review

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong. In other words, they had great business models.

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What to Do When an Online Community Starts to Fail

Harvard Business Review

These challenges are unlikely to be fatal, but they illustrate the fact that the issues facing mature online communities are both significant and distinct from those faced earlier in their life cycles. Information & technology Internet' As in the offline world, communities online can’t underestimate the value of a fresh face.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Review of material, taking notes, seeking supplementary materials and questing to learn additionally must occur. Periodically, the material is reviewed. Ask for case studies which were directly supervised by the person who will handle your training.not stock narratives from affiliate offices or a supervisor. Information.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Sales Data Only Matters If It Helps You Take Action

Harvard Business Review

Vendors hype tools and mobile applications to help sales forces make sense of it all, while touting case studies that generated impressive improvements in sales force effectiveness. It’s not the data and technology that matter. It’s not about the technology or the data.

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How to Fund Indian Start-Ups

Harvard Business Review

India has numerous small retailers and service providers who are shining examples of scrappy entrepreneurship at its best, but the information technology startups that are my primary interest typically require outside funding. India has done well in the last twenty odd years to build its technology industry through services.

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A New CEO's Reinvention Road Map

Harvard Business Review

But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. We now face new competition from Silicon Valley start-ups with venture funding and a great idea, as well as from mature industrial and technology powerhouses from the Fortune 500.

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