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The Financial Industry Needs to Start Planning for the Next 50 Years, Not the Next Five

Harvard Business Review

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Its recent launch of Marcus , an online retail bank, is a particularly promising signal. Insight Center.

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What Platforms Do Differently than Traditional Businesses

Harvard Business Review

One of the oldest business models in the world is using new technology to trample traditional businesses, drive innovation, and create new and immense sources of value. They operate platforms that make it easy and efficient for participants to connect and exchange value. And it’s not just these humongous companies.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. For example, it is nearly impossible for scaling ventures in many countries, including Brazil and Denmark, to count on an IPO for a successful exit. Even better.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business Review

They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. Retail e-commerce sales worldwide are expected to hit $4 trillion by 2020 , about double of where it is now. Innovation and change. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work.

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Disruptive Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Sifting through this work highlights three seminal moments in any disruptive innovation's development: Conception. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age. 3-D printing.

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