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Can Corporate Secrecy Bolster Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

This resulted in both productivity and profits rising. Although their objective of ‘decision usefulness’ is couched in terms of investors, we illustrate that firms themselves use disaggregated CoS information to keep up with competitors.” Our results should be of interest to these standard setters,” the researchers explain.

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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

2: Disaggregate. Yes, we find the most common mistakes in complex problem solving are weak problem statements, poor problem disaggregation, and insufficient attention to good team norms. 7 Steps to Problem Solving. 1: Define the problem. 3: Prioritize. 4: Workplan. 5: Analyze. 6: Synthesize. Communicate.

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How Demand Forecasting Can Boost Business Efficiency

Strategy Driven

Although there are many ways to do demand forecasting right, these key tips can help a business get more out of their investment in the practice: Remember that demand is not monolithic and try implementing a disaggregated model.

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Why You Should Let a 5-Year Old Design Your Next Product

Harvard Business Review

Even though he''s only five years old, that product will one day be on the shelves of your local Bed Bath and Beyond, or Target. This five-year old is able to be the inventor without also creating a company because of a product innovation company called Quirky. It engages community to improve ideas and ultimately co-create the value.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

They enable the disaggregation of physical assets in space and in time, creating digital platforms that make these disaggregated components — a few days in an apartment, an hour using a Roomba, a seat in your drive from Berlin to Hamburg — amenable to pricing, matching, and exchange.

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Approximately Correct Is Better than Precisely Incorrect

Harvard Business Review

Still, companies often make the mistake of developing products and features to appeal to the mean. What they should be doing is disaggregating the drivers of these results, and focusing instead on who, or what, comprises those averages. In both cases, the mathematical average is an amusing but not very useful data point.

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The Fight Over Tesla Shows How Little Value Dealerships Add

Harvard Business Review

Beyond finding the right seller, an intermediary might help match the buyer to the best product for her, providing important guidance and product information. In disaggregated markets with many sellers and buyers and where search costs are high, intermediaries provide considerable value.