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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

The second requirement is to anticipate response to your competitive moves so that they are not derailed by unexpected reactions. Internal operational issues including execution, budgets, and deadlines are paramount in a company’s deliberation, but what other players will do is hardly ever in focus.

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Cyber Security in the Internet of Things

Harvard Business Review

In particular, expect it to challenge your conception of cybersecurity and your ability to deliver it in IoT-enabled digital networks, your commercial operations, and your partner ecosystems. This is a fast-evolving feature of the IoT, around which industrial equipment markets have not yet aligned.

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The Future Is Scary. Creative Thinking Can Help.

Harvard Business Review

Insist upon a culture that allows people to constantly challenge the most fundamental beliefs, hypotheses, and assumptions that they have about your organization, the industry in which it does business, and the world in which it operates. The established “rules” under which you or your organization generally operates?