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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. When transaction costs drop past invisible thresholds, there will be sudden, dramatic, hard-to-predict aggregations and disaggregations of existing business models.

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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.

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

Harvard Business Review

Quirky has created an innovation engine more suited for the Social Era — in which work and jobs are no longer the same thing, and collaboration happens outside of organizations as much as within it — in three ways: It disaggregates the process of innovation from the innovator''s work itself. Back to Houston Diaz''s toothbrush.

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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. I recently bought an iPad. After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard. A week later I bought a case that puts the iPad in one half and the keyboard in the other.