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On Undo's Undue Importance

Harvard Business Review

Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. Its appearance marks a markets' phase transition from early adopters to mega-profits. Because early adopters are used to products that break. The feature? Back in 1982 Norton Utilities launched its "Unerase" product.

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Google’s Strategy vs. Glass’s Potential

Harvard Business Review

Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.” Google has been at the forefront of the trend toward consumer technologies being adopted by enterprises, but the history of computing contains more examples of the reverse.

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Six Numbers Reveal the Booming Business of Auto-Analytics

Harvard Business Review

For millennia people have run by feel, an "art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain," says Christopher McDougall in his anthropological study of the topic. Managing yourself Productivity Technology Time management PDF MBWA' That''s a great number. million data points in a work day.

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Facebook's Scramble-and-Shake Strategy

Harvard Business Review

As someone who was a pretty early adopter, for a grownup, but doesn''t spend much time on Facebook now (I''m more of a Twitter guy), I''ve been an eager consumer of the Facebook-is-doomed literature. So let''s get this straight: Facebook is either totally over , or all-powerful. Clearly, it can''t be both.

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How Harley-Davidson Used Predictive Analytics to Increase New York Sales Leads by 2,930%

Harvard Business Review

AI systems don’t need to create personas; they find real customers in the wild by determining what actual online behaviors have the highest probability of resulting in conversions, and then finding potential buyers online who exhibit these behaviors. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Here's what they should focus on.

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