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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

This guest post by Amir Golan , VP of Business Development at Signals , shows how important it is to look for the small signals and patterns in big data that are easily lost. They then took it one step further and asked, "How would you find the technology and material to meet this need?" Technology + Methodology.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity. Resistance from the Customer. The customers are in the drivers seat, no doubt about it.

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IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology

Harvard Business Review

At the same time, the trend also heightens the expectations of CIOs'' internal customers to deliver better solutions at greater speed. A second accelerant of IT delivery is the iterative software development philosophy known as "agile development." IT management Information & technology Technology'

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. ” Failure to grasp such disruptions — and adapt quickly — can be fatal. Insight Center.

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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. There is no time for complacency.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

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The More Things Change, the More They Don't Stay the Same

Harvard Business Review

He explains: "Static efficiency refers to how effective any set of social and economic arrangements is in generating the maximum output of goods and service for any current level of inputs, using existing technologies. Out of their work came a new business focus on "time to market" and "cycle time."