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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. Ideally, you want to reach out to a professional or develop your web building skills accordingly.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Are Your Employees Drivers or Victims of Process Innovations?

Harvard Business Review

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Hammer's thinking was very powerful, but I'd challenge that last point.

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5 Tips for Pitching Investors Remotely in the Time of Coronavirus

Leading Blog

For example, if your startup is in esports, you’ll have the obligatory slides talking about how many hundreds of millions of viewers of esports there are. Typically, it is about your team, market opportunity, technology/product, or market results/ traction. Spend more time on this “killer slide” and hammer in the point.

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The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

Harvard Business Review

Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. The businesses most at risk from platforms powered by rapidly improving online technologies aren’t, in fact, traditional businesses that sell products and services to consumers.

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Make the Internet of Things More Human-Friendly

Harvard Business Review

You can control each of them from your smartphone…but the Nest won’t act to adjust the climate in response to the locks being keyed open, for example, nor to lights being turned on,” according to one user. An offering from New England Biolabs offers one example. Information & technology Internet Technology'

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Please Don’t Hire a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer

Harvard Business Review

Every serious technology company now has an Artificial Intelligence team in place. As the market has matured, AI is beginning to move into enterprises that will use it but not develop it on their own. The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around. Insight Center.