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Four Suggestions as You Face Your Industry's Steamroller

Harvard Business Review

Remember the scene in the first Austin Powers film where Powers, attempting to escape in a steamroller, warns one of Dr. Evil''s henchman to move out of its path? Develop scenarios of how the world might look five or ten years from now. A decade ago Oracle developed a series of scenarios that anticipated massive industry consolidation.

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What Is a Robot, Anyway?

Harvard Business Review

For Westerners at least, our working cultural definition owes a lot to robots in stories and film, as well as real-life robots past and present. By 2003, there were 800,000. Their market value is $9.5 Form-factors, intelligence, and the purpose of robots can all vary significantly. How is this so? Today, more than 1.3

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.