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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Of course, part of that entailed reestablishing the company’s reputation for cutting-edge technology. The company had been rolling out one product after another without any guiding rationale other than they were “innovative.” Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal.

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AI Storytelling

Decker Communication

Problems arise when advancements in technology outpace the ability of technology companies to effectively communicate their value. The global advertising company seeks increased client spending for their AI platform, but their account managers and product people can’t explain how the AI platform works. Buyers expect to be wowed.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

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3 Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

Leading Blog

Going all the way back to Yahoo or Microsoft, the initial products (a directory for a nascent tech called the World Wide Web, and Microsoft BASIC,) didn’t look like billion-dollar products at all. Like Jerry Yang who started Yahoo, as investors we are looking for entrepreneurs who are obsessed with a new technology.

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New Tool Offers Possible Career Alternatives For Those Threatened By Automation

The Horizons Tracker

While I have been notably skeptical about the various claims that robots and AI will destroy vast swathes of the jobs we know today, there is an understandable concern about the impact technology is likely to have on the labor market, and especially about how one can go about making our own job as disruption proof as possible.

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9 Lessons from Henry Ford’s $5 Day Decision

Leading Blog

Its product, a simple one that can be produced easily because of a manufacturing process that you invented, is wildly popular. But in 1903, automobiles were an elite product. Especially when demand for Ford’s products was ballooning — workers could not work fast enough. Henry Ford. Only the rich could afford them.

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Taking a Look at the Future of Oil and Gas Industry

Strategy Driven

Activists and politicians demand the modernization of energy production, supply, and consumption. Renewable technology is gaining ground left and right. Sustainable technology is getting cheaper as time rolls by. Rapidly-growing Asian economies need them to support their population and production boom.