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7 Reasons Why You Can’t Do It Yourself

Strategy Driven

Unfortunately, for solo entrepreneurs, technology serves a dual purpose, acting both as a fit-for-purpose tool and an advisor. Just as anybody can use a hammer, only trained professionals can build a house. Therefore, the landing page is a mini page that displays highly targeted content. I’ve got a tool that does it for me.

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Change management and sales: influencing the buying decision path

Strategy Driven

We are holding a hammer, waiting for the time when they are ready with a nail. It not only teaches buyers how to get the requisite buy-in so their daily functioning won’t be compromised – managing the people, policies, technology, and old vendor, etc. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Accompanying these peer economy companies are others (like Zipcar) which simply leverage technology and lower transaction costs to make flexible renting a viable alternative to asset acquisition.

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Make the Internet of Things More Human-Friendly

Harvard Business Review

When I grab a hammer to install shelving, the distinction between “hand” and “tool” recedes into the unconscious, while completing the job becomes the main object of my thinking; in function and thought, the tool is the extended hand when it works properly. Information & technology Internet Technology'

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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. Decision making Information & technology Operations' Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand.

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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. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand. Certainly, some customization and personal touches were lost.

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Stop Documenting, Start Experiencing

Harvard Business Review

million items of content per day ) to build deep reservoirs of the experiences we've painstakingly captured. Recent research hammers this home, showing that our performance drops when we try to perform both encoding tasks (experiencing what's around you) and response selection tasks (capturing stimuli) at the same time.