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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Reflections on the Fabric of the Toyota Production System

Deming Institute

Fast forward to the mid-to-late 1980s, when a research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Daniel Jones, Daniel Roos, and James Womack , surveyed production systems at 90 automobile assembly plants in 17 countries. and Japan.

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Four Major Changes in Global Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

It was Abraham Maslow who gave us that famous observation — “when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Our annual Prosperity Index –- the 2013 edition of which we released yesterday –- measures national prosperity based on eight core pillars that combine “hard” data with survey data.

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The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

Harvard Business Review

Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. Surveying these changes, you might conclude that if your business isn’t a platform, you had better worry that one is coming your way. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media.

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Stop Documenting, Start Experiencing

Harvard Business Review

A quick survey of the social web suggests so. Recent research hammers this home, showing that our performance drops when we try to perform both encoding tasks (experiencing what's around you) and response selection tasks (capturing stimuli) at the same time. On Facebook today, roughly 200 million photos will be uploaded.

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How We Learned (Almost) Everything That’s Wrong with U.S. Census Data

Harvard Business Review

Our field research showed that some traditional physical stores were rapidly blending the best of physical, web, and mobile to serve their customers, while others were simply being hammered by the growth of e-commerce. We pored over the surveys and documentation. We thought getting data would be pretty easy. So we started digging.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. ” In his family’s living room, his proud parents give him his “grandpappy’s” giant hammer. Generate and nurture your own talent channels.