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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

The second innovation was called blockchain, which was essentially the realization that the underlying technology that operated bitcoin could be separated from the currency and used for all kinds of other interorganizational cooperation. These changes, and others, represent a pervasive lowering of transaction costs.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

Creating a virtual workforce of software robots can help companies streamline operational processes as well as increase the quality and cost-effectiveness of shared services. Insight Center. The Automation Age. Sponsored by KPMG. How robotics and machine learning are changing business. Another area that is rapidly evolving is social robotics.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

Unsurprisingly, the group’s targeted segmentation and disaggregation efforts ended up dramatically improving response and resolution times for typical customers. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

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Traditional Strategy Is Dead. Welcome to the #SocialEra

Harvard Business Review

The companies thriving today are operating by a new set of rules — Social Era rules. The failing organizations around us — many of which I explore in my new book , which publishes today — continue to follow the operating rules and ethos of Traditional Strategy. They live it.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Financial leverage (assets over equity).

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Financial leverage (assets over equity).

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What a Changing UK Can Learn from Multinationals

Harvard Business Review

Previously, there has been a presumption that there was no need for a disaggregation of the interests of the UK as a whole and England, on the grounds that it contains 85% of the UK population. Choices in strategy, labor relations, product specification, and advertising were often poorly suited to other regions around the world.