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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. We’ve all seen some eye-bulging numbers in recent years about the internet of things (IoT).

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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. Companies such as IBM, ADP, Ingersoll Rand and Novartis have met this need by developing workplace technology systems that promote real-time, ongoing dialogue across all employment levels.

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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business Review

adults were at risk of developing type 2 diabetes in 2015. At the same time, some 1,000 nonprofits and community-based organizations were offering a drug-free solution to help avoid developing diabetes, but they weren’t sufficiently publicizing it or engaging users to sell the service. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. Morgan Stanley projects that 3G penetration will reach 22 percent by 2015. Further, we'll see a roll-out of 4G wireless services across the country in 2012. A leapfrog effect will mean that three of every four Net users will do so by 2015.

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

Harvard Business Review

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

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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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The Political Issues Board Directors Care Most About

Harvard Business Review

In response to our survey in late 2015, they told us that on economic matters, uncertainty abounds. Results are based on all submissions as of December 1, 2015. internet software & services, semiconductors, wireless telecommunication services); and Materials (e.g.,