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Companies Are Turning Drones into a Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

While 60% of drone usage currently relates to communications and media such as for film making and commercial photography, new higher-value applications are on their way, as drones have a significant advantage in terms of precision, convenience, and cost over more traditional solutions such as satellites and helicopters. Insight Center.

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A Kodak Moment to Reconsider the Value of IT

Harvard Business Review

It helps students see that Kodak did not understand or invest in the digital technologies that were to sweep away its business, a failure usually attributed to incumbent executive myopia. The CIO was Katherine Hudson, who is considered by many people to have launched the modern IT outsourcing movement while at Kodak.

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Why Consumer Tech Is So Irritatingly Incremental

Harvard Business Review

After all, it was hardly a new technology; the first radial tire patents had been filed more than 40 years before. This is the transformational and dramatic effect of a superior technology entering an industry. This was no surprise to the top five U.S.-based based bias-ply tire manufacturers (Goodyear, Firestone, Uniroyal, B.F.

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The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain

Harvard Business Review

The truth is, AI is as “fully-automated” as the Great and Powerful Oz was in that famous scene from the classic film , where Dorothy and friends realize that the great wizard is simply a man manically pulling levers from behind a curtain. We need to think seriously about the human labor in the loop driving AI.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

The story, which apparently has echoes in some other school districts around the country, is but one more salvo in the wars of educational reform (recently depicted in the film Waiting for Superman — dont miss it). In a world of virtual value chains and multi-part outsourcing, how do we bring good judgment to bear?

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Hiring Data Scientists from Outside the U.S.: A Primer on Visas

Harvard Business Review

In a tight labor market, it’s imperative that a hiring manager understand the immigration issues that affect who they can hire and how. land border, airport, or Pre-Flight Inspection location managed by U.S. Some high-volume law firms charge $500, in large part because they can outsource the work of support staff to India.

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Linds Redding’s Short Lesson in Perspective

In the CEO Afterlife

Time moved on, and during the nineties technology overran, and transformed the creative industry like it did most others. As fast as we could pin an idea on the wall, some red-faced account manager in a bad suit would run away with it. As soon as they figure out a way of outsourcing thinking to China they won’t think twice.