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You Can Make Your Sales Data a Lot Better with a Little Discipline

Harvard Business Review

That’s why decision makers require spot-on data and efficient, streamlined systems to maintain it. Too many sales teams (and other departments) enter data by hand but create fresh entries instead of searching their systems and updating existing accounts, which muddies their data sets. and Cisco Precision Tools.

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Get More from Your Event Spending

Harvard Business Review

Technology to do this exists, and it has implications for what managers can do before, during, and after the events they sponsor or attend. No technology can help managers who are unable or unwilling to set goals. The technology will also help you make a a core decision: is attending, sponsoring, or exhibiting at this event worth it?

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Are Appleā€™s Patent Wars a Marketing Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

Often, managers think about patent litigation as a “narrow” strategy to protect a particular technology against a specific infringer. The most interesting aspect of the Apple-Samsung patent battle is that the actual technology war is not between Apple and Samsung. So why has Apple not sued Google? billion requested).

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Viral By Design: Teams in the Networked World

Harvard Business Review

Dozens of systems and networks tell some of the stories about your firm. Now you can line them all up, from social media, consumer insights, competitive intelligence, marketplace measurement, sales, and distribution. The big difference this year is not the technology," Joe Rospars, the campaign's social media chief said.

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How a Food-Ordering App Broke into a Crowded Market

Harvard Business Review

The founders were told the service would have no demand, they couldn’t be the ones to meet the demand, they didn’t understand technology, and the management team had no track record (the god of VC’s success philosophy). They literally knocked on doors and offered a free website and ordering system to the clients.

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Cyber Security in the Internet of Things

Harvard Business Review

What''s more, as systems built by different OEMs interact, there is infighting among them as to what constitutes sensitive or competitive intelligence. Succeeding in the IoT era will depend on defining and deploying not only the right cybersecurity technologies, but also the right policies and operations.