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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
But in my research, and in conversations with hardware entrepreneurs throughout the country, I have noticed several developments that have put manufacturing start-up activity on a faster, more commercial track. Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 10, 2012
When tracking trends for future growth opportunities, for example, invest real money (2 to 4 percent of the sales budget is good) to develop analytical tools and teams that monitor trends such as demographic shifts, regulations, and new technologies. Make sales a team sport.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 2, 2015
Leaders of many companies — in industries ranging from contract manufacturing, and software services to consulting and health care — tell us the same thing: “We want to move up the value chain.” The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2011
A lot of business literature advocates teaming up wherever possible to open the doors to new ideas, draw on the unique strengths of others, and speed time to market. The firm has developed a sensing system that captures light hitting the camera from a variety of angles, not just what strikes a plane set behind a small aperture.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
But it is realistic to envision the growth of high-value-add, high-skill, high-wage manufacturing industries like the microprocessor and computer-networking businesses that Intel and Cisco launched in the 1980s. Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 14, 2016
Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 21, 2015
This is a problem affecting tens of thousands of restaurants — an attractive target market. We partnered with a company in a Singapore that had expertise in RFID technology, and began to put together a solution involving tags on bottles, a customized storage unit that could read the tags, and a software management system.
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