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Engaging Shoppers with Intelligent Stores

Harvard Business Review

Some retailers are responding with clever innovations. Creating this new intelligent store requires, at the very least, the CIO, the chief marketing officer, the SVP of store operations and the SVP of e-commerce to determine how to best engage with increasingly digital-savvy, data-driven shoppers.

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

The same investment logic holds for Apple's innovation ecosystem; the flow and fortune of its third-party apps development alone would yield valuable insight. But that mind-set's simply too focused and operational. Any data-driven, analytics-obsessed trader or investor would be thrilled running a Facebook fund.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

People who have earned these belts drive projects with clear financial targets set at the top organization, with progress monitored by the CFO. Most missionaries of the BPM religion come from a heritage in information technology. Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

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How to Succeed in Business by Bundling – and Unbundling

Harvard Business Review

Peter Currie , our CFO, and I were doing it, and I said, “All right, one last question.” And so, ironically, the bundlers of that era were operating probably illegally, in the way that they were forcing the bundle and then price-fixing the bundle. Information & technology Internet Strategy'

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