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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market. Big companies began to attempt to manage innovation in a systematic way.

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Make IT Delightful, and Other Ways to Enchant Your Employees

Harvard Business Review

In the business world, marketers use enchantment all the time. But as employees, most of us still have to put up with quaint, joyless systems for enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, or expense reports. We often find it when we experience nature, art, or entertainment, and, of course, when we fall in love.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. Give you a sounding board to flesh out your ideas. The list goes on.

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What Changes When AI Is So Accessible That Everyone Can Use It?

Harvard Business Review

Mazin Gilbert has an ambitious goal. As vice president of advanced technologies at AT&T, Gilbert wants to make AI technologies widely available throughout the corporation, especially to those who might not have a computer science background and may not even know how to program. Somewhat similar tools are already on the market.

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What the Media Industry Can Teach Us About Digital Business Models

Harvard Business Review

Google and its disruptive advertising model leads the pack with a $370 billion market capitalization, but consider also companies like Facebook ($225 billion), LinkedIn ($25 billion), Twitter ($24 billion), TripAdvisor ($11 billion), and Yelp ($3 billion). The combined market value of those four companies? New tools and strategies.