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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

This new era of focus on creative problem solving has been ushered in by massive disruption of the old order in business and society. New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. 2: Disaggregate.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

But in the world of new "sharing economy" models that generate efficiency gains, theirs is just the tip of the iceberg. True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Under the hood, the business model is fundamentally not very different from that of a traditional rental car company.

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Automation Will Make Us Rethink What a “Job” Really Is

Harvard Business Review

How robotics and machine learning are changing business. However, with technology, digitalization, and artificial intelligence accelerating changes to jobs, the relationships between performance and value become even more complex and yield potentially exponential opportunities for value creation. Insight Center. The Automation Age.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

But just when we’ve sorted out preferred management routines, there is an entirely new landscape emerging with technology options central to the work and possibly your business model: work automation. How, when, and where should leaders be thinking about applying the various automation technologies to their businesses?

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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

Many of the technologies we now take for granted were quiet revolutions in their time. Now we have global nomads building new businesses straight from their phones. When transaction costs drop past invisible thresholds, there will be sudden, dramatic, hard-to-predict aggregations and disaggregations of existing business models.

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The Truth About How Uber’s App Manages Drivers

Harvard Business Review

The company manages a large, disaggregated workforce of “driver-partners” that deliver a relatively standardized experience to passengers, while simultaneously promoting drivers as independent entrepreneurs whose work is characterized by freedom, flexibility, and independence. million drivers are active on the platform globally.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

MIT Technology Review didn't pick a winner, but on its recent list of top 50 "disruptors," the magazine mixed stalwarts such as General Electric and IBM with up-and-comers, Square and Coursera. So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. The editors of Fast Company say Nike.