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Wellness Perks And Programs Popular Among Best Places To Work Companies

Eric Jacobson

No-cost 15 fruit and vegetable "brain foods" every day - Genesys Systems Integrator Fitness facility - Argosy Casino Hotel & Spa; Henderson Engineers Inc.; Kansas City Employee Benefits S tand-up workstations spread throughout the office - Netsmart Technologies Inc. Plattform Advertising Inc.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

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Where Disruptive Innovation Came From

Harvard Business Review

Disruptors adopt a new technology and target a market segment that doesn’t matter to incumbents, then ride improvements in the technology to expand into established players’ core customer base. In 1995, Christensen and Joe Bower published the article that introduced the notion of disruptive technology.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.