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Creating a New Approach to Engineering and Innovation at Hitachi Metals - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HITACHI METALS, LTD.

Harvard Business Review

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

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Using Digital Exhaust to Improve Sales

Harvard Business Review

For example, Lattice Engines’ analytics software pulls data from third-party vendors and independent websites including information about firms’ regulatory and compliance activities, changes in credit rating, financial performance, job posting trends and firm-related social media traffic.

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The Real Solution Is Growth

Harvard Business Review

Recent headlines have focused on the debt ceiling , the recent credit rating downgrade , unemployment , and the other thorny fiscal challenges facing the United States. We need to guard against it.

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The Impact of the Blockchain Goes Beyond Financial Services

Harvard Business Review

Blockchain technology can also take networked business models to a new level by supporting a whole host of breakthrough applications: native payment systems that run without banks, credit card companies, and other intermediaries will cut cost and time from transactions.

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Use Big Data to Create Value for Customers, Not Just Target Them

Harvard Business Review

Simple examples include recommendation engines that create value for customers by reducing their search and evaluation costs, as Amazon and Netflix do; or augmenting commodity utilities with customized usage information, as Opower does. That is, we need to shift from asking what big data can do for us, to what it can do for customers.