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How Corporates Can Best Engage With Startups

The Horizons Tracker

It’s a conflation of being busy as being productive when the two are certainly not the same thing. If business unit heads are bought into the importance of working with startups, then it’s much more likely to integrate their technology into the workflow of their unit. Successful partnerships.

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Departed Client Analysis: Opening Formal Channels of Feedback to Improve Customer Retention

Strategy Driven

The source of much of this faulty information is client service personnel, who ultimately are not in an objective position to gather and share unbiased feedback, due to factors such as personal client relationships and potential conflicts of interest. Identify which competitors are being selected to replace your company and why.

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Why Your Partnership Contract Is Too Important to Be Left to the Lawyers

Harvard Business Review

Changing technology and markets make it impossible to foresee future contingencies. These fences can reduce the potential for conflicts of interest that make managing incomplete contracts so challenging. Social relationships are important in providing both the glue and the grease to help contracts evolve productively.

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Connect Inventors with the Right Problems

Harvard Business Review

” Its common theme is that there are a lot of potentially productive assets sitting around, ripe for greater use. Firms constantly invest in processes of discovery and come up with innovations that others could put to productive use. We’re being taught the same lesson by the rise of today’s “sharing economy.”

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Are Uber and Facebook Turning Users into Lobbyists?

Harvard Business Review

With this week’s in-feed promotion of Internet.org, Facebook crossed the line between promoting general civic engagement and sponsoring citizen communication by supporting a specific company program favorable to its commercial interests. We’re being introduced to a new lever of corporate influence on democracy.

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Solar Is Being Held Back by Regulations, Not Technology

Harvard Business Review

Due to the drop in costs for solar technology and increases in electric utility rates , solar photovoltaic-generated electricity is now less expensive than grid electricity, and adoption is rising rapidly throughout the U.S. This leads to an intricate web of confusing rules. The results showed the total potential U.S. solar in 2015.

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The Most Overlooked Part of Your Data Security

Harvard Business Review

Organizations constantly replace outdated computers, servers, laptops, copiers, and countless other types of electronic devices to keep up with technology and enhance worker productivity. IT management Information & technology Risk management' Why Businesses Should Share Intelligence About Cyber Attacks.