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How Demand Forecasting Can Boost Business Efficiency

Strategy Driven

Improving Cash Flow: By the same token, it’s important that businesses keep their cash flow situation agile and not over-allocate resources to projects that aren’t aligned with market conditions. Break down demand by demographics, product lines, regional differences and any other statistical segments that matter.

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The World Needs a DARPA-Style Project to Prevent Pandemics

Harvard Business Review

and governments around the world to develop an equivalent to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), that focuses cross-sector efforts on advancing biological and pandemic risk readiness. And it’s not as effective as it could be, because the money is allocated in a disaggregated manner. It’s not enough.

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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

The ethereum smart contract platform now has a market cap of around a billion dollars , with hundreds of projects headed toward the market. To manage this without compromising the legendary security and robustness of blockchain is a difficult problem, but not an intractable one. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

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Who Wins in the Gig Economy, and Who Loses

Harvard Business Review

Work is being disaggregated from jobs and reorganized into a variety of alternative arrangements, such as consulting projects, freelance assignments, and contract opportunities. All of that is changing. On the other end of the spectrum, retail and service workers currently in low-skill, low-wage jobs can also win in the gig economy.

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Design Your Own Profession

Harvard Business Review

A disaggregated laptop that is lighter and more versatile, since I can use the screen by itself as an e-reader and the keyboard with other devices. Boeing refers to its global "value webs," an approach that turns managers into systems integrators. I recently bought an iPad. After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard.

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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. A successful Patch likely can't be created by building a large sales force and trying to source beautiful Project Devil ads for the site. Patch has the potential to be a truly disruptive business. Consider the market.

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Why I Tell My MBA Students to Stop Looking for a Job and Join the Gig Economy

Harvard Business Review

Instead of creating jobs, companies are increasingly disaggregating work from a job. There will always be the need for a small, core group of essential workers, in-demand talent, and senior management roles that companies will want to fill with full-time employees, for reasons of quality, consistency, and continuity.

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