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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. Use automated systems to monitor how a demand forecast is matching up to actual expressed demand. Diversify forecasting methods.

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The Truth About How Uber’s App Manages Drivers

Harvard Business Review

The company manages a large, disaggregated workforce of “driver-partners” that deliver a relatively standardized experience to passengers, while simultaneously promoting drivers as independent entrepreneurs whose work is characterized by freedom, flexibility, and independence. Customers act as managers.

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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

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. The ethereum smart contract platform now has a market cap of around a billion dollars , with hundreds of projects headed toward the market.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

However, although their members can rent the (more urbane and green) Zipcar fleet by the hour and pick up their vehicle at a local parking space using a smartphone app, this is still a dedicated fleet, still inventory that the company has to acquire, manage and monetize.

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The World Needs a DARPA-Style Project to Prevent Pandemics

Harvard Business Review

And it’s not as effective as it could be, because the money is allocated in a disaggregated manner. Our strength lies in global collaboration, widespread early warning systems that do not sow panic and deep cross-sector collaboration. and the global community can manage them. Private sector. Science/technology community.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

Aggravated and depressed by the decline of their core memory business in the 1980s, Intel’s top management struggled for strategic clarity. Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. But the past is merely a prologue.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. How talent management is changing.