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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

.” Consider what’s happened in just the past 10 years: The first major blockchain innovation was bitcoin, a digital currency experiment. The market cap of bitcoin now hovers between $10–$20 billion dollars, and is used by millions of people for payments, including a large and growing remittances market.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. The company will also eliminate a key chipset in the difficult tablet and smartphone market. Conversely, superior user experience designs frequently inspire insight into innovative use-case opportunities.

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Why AOL Should Double Down on Patch

Harvard Business Review

The startup is trying to build a platform that could replace a disaggregated network of local news sources. Consider the market. Almost all of these disruptive businesses are ridiculed or ignored in their initial years of operations by existing players. Patch has the potential to be a truly disruptive business.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

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Traditional Strategy Is Dead. Welcome to the #SocialEra

Harvard Business Review

The fact that they are joined at the hip in so many people's minds means that marketing agencies are thriving — but that the rest of our organizations are not. The companies thriving today are operating by a new set of rules — Social Era rules. They see it as the purview of two functions: marketing and service.

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The Human Element in Digital Prototyping

Harvard Business Review

As the cost of operating online (i.e., There are many solutions that might address this motivation–an influence score, voting buttons, or the ability to re-market ideas. Disaggregate the drivers. Innovation Marketing Research' Ease of testing. development, bandwidth, fulfillment, etc.)