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How Demand Forecasting Can Boost Business Efficiency

Strategy Driven

Macro Demand Forecasting: The “big picture” demand forecasting technique that looks ahead at broader market conditions to help plan a business’s overarching strategies. Active Demand Forecasting: A more intensive technique used to evaluate how aggressive plans for expansion and scaling will interact with consumer demand.

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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 fourth major innovation, the current cutting edge of blockchain thinking, is called “proof of stake.” Proof-of-work systems are expected to go live later this year.

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The Fight Over Tesla Shows How Little Value Dealerships Add

Harvard Business Review

In disaggregated markets with many sellers and buyers and where search costs are high, intermediaries provide considerable value. The process of intermediation and disintermediation in different industries is an essential part of innovating business models. Auto industry Innovation Strategy'

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

Avis has taken an interesting (and bold) step by acquiring Zipcar, absorbing an innovative but struggling competitor at what is likely to be seen as a bargain price while acquiring a small but desirable customer base and gaining a foothold in the rapidly growing world of collaborative consumption.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Conversely, superior user experience designs frequently inspire insight into innovative use-case opportunities.

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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

And to them, notions like distributing power to everyone, working in extended community to get things done, or allowing innovation to happen anywhere and everywhere are, well, ridiculously obvious. So before we can explore the Social Era, we need to disaggregate two words — social is not always attached to the word media.