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How Smaller Bets Can Revitalize Hollywood

Harvard Business Review

Bachelorette , a film starring Kirsten Dunst, created a small sensation this summer when it was released to video-on-demand (VOD) a month ahead of it's September 7 theatrical debut. Bachelorette is not the first film released this way, but it is the first to do so well. It would allow more effective marketing spends.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business Review

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business Review

Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. One major Asian electronics company built a design lab to develop new hardware product ideas. These labels also nicely describe the phases of innovation: Explore, Scale, and Optimize.

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The IT Conversation We Should Be Having

Harvard Business Review

The Conversation is also a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola whose themes include the role of technology in society and being so focused on what you are doing that you forget why you are doing it and become oblivious to what is happening around you. made me break out in cold sweats.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. The more trust that exists between players, the more efficiently the system, market, or organization will work.

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Tomorrow’s Factories Will Need Better Processes, Not Just Better Robots

Harvard Business Review

Today, in most mature markets, it’s more than 90 percent automated, yet it is still one of the most expensive and space-intensive sections of the factory. It will look different because we will have invented entirely new processes and designs for building cars requiring entirely new manufacturing techniques. Insight Center.

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What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model

Harvard Business Review

Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. Our business now operates like a tech startup, with less hierarchy and far more agility.