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Technologies Your Business Really Can’t Afford Not To Embrace

Strategy Driven

Whatever the nature of your business, there are certain technologies that are slowly and quietly but consistently revolutionizing the ways in which businesses operate and the tech savvy business can either get in on the ground floor or face the combined impediments of increased running costs, lower output and reduced productivity.

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Will China Bring Your Firm New Owners, Partners, or Competitors?

Harvard Business Review

But Chinese companies of all sizes are already operating in the U.S. For American companies seeking strategic investment , Chinese ownership presents a new alternative to the traditional routes of private equity investment or acquisition by a larger domestic industry incumbent. When a Chinese company operates in the U.S.,

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What Is a Robot, Anyway?

Harvard Business Review

If you think more about industry, you might imagine a mechanical arm programmed to install parts on a production line. 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. ” For years industrial robots were all that a real robot could be.

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If Ford Wants to Beat Tesla, It Needs to Go All In

Harvard Business Review

The auto industry is facing a trio of disruptive technologies: electric batteries, autonomous vehicles, and the mobile phone. Which is why the auto industry’s reaction to Tesla’s announcement on March 31 of its Model 3 is so strange. Because, guess what, a lot of these services, they need vehicles.

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

Harvard Business Review

When people think of the automotive Factory of the Future, the first word that comes to mind is automation. There’s no doubt that the auto industry will continue to vigorously pursue automation solutions to lower the cost of producing cars. CSA Images/Mod Art Collection/Getty Images.