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Big Data Demands Big Context

Harvard Business Review

When Microsoft built Windows 8, its goal was to move beyond operating-system conventions that were based on outdated user-behavior assumptions and create an OS for the way people really use computers today. Microsoft’s engineers discovered that people were doing less of the time-consuming writing and creating that had once been the norm.

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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?

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Viral By Design: Teams in the Networked World

Harvard Business Review

They are the fuel in the engine of the networked world. Common Operating Pictures. Now you can line them all up, from social media, consumer insights, competitive intelligence, marketplace measurement, sales, and distribution. The Invisible Children and the OMGPOP teams each achieved it. Don't stop at viral-by-design.

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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. What''s more, as systems built by different OEMs interact, there is infighting among them as to what constitutes sensitive or competitive intelligence.