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How Watson Changed IBM

Harvard Business Review

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. Innovation Strategy Technology' So how does it work?

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

Our global financial system moves trillions of dollars a day and serves billions of people. First, because it’s antiquated, a kludge of industrial technologies and paper-based processes dressed up in a digital wrapper. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Distributed Database.

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When Big Companies Support Start-ups, Both Make More Money

Harvard Business Review

In the technology world, we’ve seen the tremendous impact that eBay has made in helping small e-commerce businesses get off the ground. Now imagine if eBay went beyond providing a technology platform and entered the field of business incubation in a meaningful way, It’s an idea that could have a huge impact. Most stagnate.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education. What policies and programs is your organization developing around badges?

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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Several trends should be disturbing to hospital administrators, including the development of free standing, low-cost “neighborhood” hospitals. Developed by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health, Hospital at Home has been tested in multiple markets throughout the United States and is working.

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Playing a Dangerous Game With Job Creation

Harvard Business Review

Because if only Congress and the American people could hear the voices of entrepreneurs, they might learn how key elements of this new patent reform bill will in fact enrich the giant technology multinationals at the expense of American job creation. technological and economic leadership in the world. And that's just a partial list.

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People Are the New Channel

Harvard Business Review

She developed compelling content to educate customers, prospects, advocates, and influencers on the new law. Brent Remai, CMO at FireEye , was hired into a small, venture- funded company with several years of moderate results. In 2012, they were ranked as the 4th fastest-growing tech company by Technology Fast 500.