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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. It requires new modes of operation. They reduce duplication of efforts and skills, thus reducing operational costs.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. You can't run your global R&D operations from headquarters in Mumbai. Decentralize and empower global R&D units. and the U.K. and the U.K.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

” Incorporating rapid programming practices (“ Agile ” and “ Extreme Programming ”) to bring significant time-to-market and productivity benefits also required new and different skill sets than what were traditionally found within GE. Operations Competitive strategy Technology'

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool.