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Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform

Harvard Business Review

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center.

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Motivating Millennials Takes More than Flexible Work Policies

Harvard Business Review

A 2015 Gallup Poll found that Millennials are the least engaged cohort in the workplace, with only 28.9% A 2015 report on Millennials from the U.S. Embrace technology and make collaboration a way of doing business. saying that they are engaged at work. Millennials are digital natives.

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. Most responses (80%) were received between October and December 2015.

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America’s Transportation Infrastructure Needs Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Sensors, smartphones, tablets, wireless networks, and Big Data are starting to transform transportation and infrastructure. Not only could they digitally store manuals and logbooks, but wireless connectivity could also help with communications, flight planning, and keeping track of weather. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. But not fast enough.

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America’s Leaders Need to Tell a New Story About Infrastructure

Harvard Business Review

Systems conceived and built 50-60 years ago should be reimagined for the 20 th century, whether high speed trains, innovative public transit, or technology-enabled roads and vehicles that tap the potential of sensors, smartphones, wireless networks, and Big Data for greener, cleaner, more efficient mobility. infrastructure problems.

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A Rational Approach to Regulating Private Drones

Harvard Business Review

This is the kind of worry, as I discussed in an earlier piece , that is driving many state and local governments to enact bans and restrictions on the use of unmanned aircraft in advance of 2015 FAA rules that will allow them into US airspace. Each new technology gets its own analysis. In a 2012 case, for example, the U.S.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. South African restaurant chain Ocean Basket also opened in Harare in 2015 to serve the wealthy urban elite.