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Microsoft’s Bid to Make Outlook More than Email

Harvard Business Review

Most of the features will be incorporated into Outlook 2013 and Outlook Web for Office 365, with more partnerships likely to come. These “add-ins” allow Outlook users to schedule an Uber ride prior to a meeting, for example, or send PayPal money through an email, or easily share information to and from Evernote.

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It's Time to Cut Back on Social Media

Harvard Business Review

Clearly there is a first mover advantage in some cases: Chris Brogan developed a passionate following as an early blogger, and Guy Kawasaki jumped onboard Twitter and became a powerhouse there. But in 2013, think hard about how you can cut back, so you can focus on what matters.

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Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially

Harvard Business Review

The company was an eager user of my “cascading choices” framework for strategy that I have used for decades and written about extensively, most prominently in the 2013 book I wrote, with friend and colleague A.G. Lafley, called Playing to Win. But it didn’t work in the Where to Play of China.

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

Harvard Business Review

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

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Four Ideas for Creating Mobile Strategy

Harvard Business Review

While many of these strategies apply both within and outside the consumer packaged goods industry, there is no secret sauce and all marketers should ask themselves what their unique mobile framework should be in 2013, and beyond. Use the power of mobile-at-retail and re-think the impulse purchase?.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

In this environment, multinationals that are willing to accept some risk and invest in the country could benefit from first-mover advantages – but only if the new administration follows through with much-needed economic reforms. billion a decade later. Now the country is at a crossroads. Years of economic mismanagement.