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Improve Decision-Making With Help From the Crowd

Harvard Business Review

IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014. It will surely meet resistance.

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How to Integrate Data and Analytics into Every Part of Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Innovate more effectively? Cultural resistance can also become a bigger obstacle than anticipated. Once they addressed those needs, the company was able to use the great platform to achieve significant savings in operating costs. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? Drive strategy and accelerate change? Increase market share?

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Why Apple’s New HQ Is Nothing Like the Rest of Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

Old concrete parking lots gave way to new green landscapes and a wooded preserve populated with 9,000 indigenous California trees, including ornamental and fruit trees, selected to resist drought and the threat of future climate change. Buildings, on the other hand, are change averse, optimized to stand for decades.