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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

It’s a challenge dialysis technology startup Advitos, a member of the EIT Health accelerator, have been struggling with, as resource constraints mean they have to focus their efforts on larger municipalities, and indeed in markets that they know well. years old by the time they go public, compared to an average of 2.8

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Is America Losing Its Edge in Clean-Energy Tech?

Harvard Business Review

But with other countries working hard to develop their own clean technologies, the U.S. American companies have had to slash their margins to compete, and their share prices have been hammered as a consequence. could lose its edge quickly, both in innovation and deployment.

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Let Algorithms Decide – and Act – for Your Company

Harvard Business Review

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. Of course, the analytics processes had to be designed, developed, tested, and deployed by people.

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Let Algorithms Decide – and Act – for Your Company

Harvard Business Review

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. Of course, the analytics processes had to be designed, developed, tested, and deployed by people.

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The Problem with FEMA No One Is Talking About

Harvard Business Review

The editorial page of the New York Times recently hammered Mitt Romney with a piece called " A Big Storm Requires Big Government." Such constraints would likely encourage less risk taking before a disaster.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. An integrated strategy machine is the collection of resources, both technological and human, that act in concert to develop and execute business strategies. Design appropriate to the aim.

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Lean Doesn’t Always Create the Best Products

Harvard Business Review

As a practitioner of a design-led form of product development, and in my own research and writing about an empathetic approach to product design, I’m overtly critical of the Lean manifesto. Lean proposes a “test and measure” process of product development. But what is lost? Leverage A/B testing to compare variations.