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Consumers In Two Minds About Automated Deliveries

The Horizons Tracker

The team discovered that, on a societal level, there is work needed to reshape public perceptions regarding this imminent technological change. “We We need to think really carefully about the effect of these new technologies on people and communities, and to tune in to what they think about these changes,” the researchers explain.

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How to Improve Your Managerial Skills

Strategy Driven

Take Control of Your Official Website First and foremost, and especially if you have previously relied on other professionals for such a task, you need to familiarize yourself with the official company website for your business and seek to optimize SEO efficiency.

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How Companies Say They’re Using Big Data

Harvard Business Review

.” Survey respondents included Presidents, Chief Information Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Data Officers representing 50 industry giants, including American Express, Capital One, Disney, Ford Motors, General Electric, JP Morgan, MetLife, Nielsen, Turner Broadcasting, United Parcel Service, and USAA.

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Transforming Rural India Through Agricultural Innovation

Harvard Business Review

A large part of NAF’s effort with farmers is to help break their initial emotional barriers to new technologies. The success of these measures has had a demonstrative impact on the farmers’ willingness to adopt and internalize new technologies. This has provided the platform to launch into other initiatives.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy.

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Volkswagen and the End of Corporate Spin

Harvard Business Review

There are complex social, political, and technological reasons for this dramatic change. At the technological level, the explosion of the Internet and social media has made the world more transparent, and has meant that organizations in both the public and private spheres are being forced to face new information-sharing challenges.

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Workforce Analytics Isn't as Scary as It Sounds

Harvard Business Review

ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." Most importantly, they do fewer headcount reductions because they have lean and efficient workforces to begin with. Take Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times. He's "[a] man of facts and calculations. A man who is.

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