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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 Impact of the Blockchain Goes Beyond Financial Services

Harvard Business Review

Much of the hype around blockchains has focused on their potential to fundamentally change the financial services industry – by dropping the cost and complexity of financial transactions, making the world’s unbanked a viable new market, and improving transparency and regulation.

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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. Markets will not generate enough innovation. We need to guard against it. This is what the U.S.

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

Harvard Business Review

Big data holds out big promises for marketing. Notably, it pledges to answer two of the most vexing questions that have stymied marketers since they started selling: 1) who buys what when and at what price? Measuring Marketing Insights. and 2) can we link what consumers hear, read, and view to what they buy and consume?