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Can We Quantify the Value of Connected Devices?

Harvard Business Review

P&G didn’t go into its early connected device initiatives with a “let’s try this out and see what it gets us” mindset. And this addresses the commercial value creation question – P&G’s mindset was to create operational efficiencies that would contribute to healthy EBITDA margins. Information & technology Internet'

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What Is a Business Model?

Harvard Business Review

Drucker’s theory of the business was a set of assumptions about what a business will and won’t do, closer to Michael Porter’s definition of strategy. They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.”