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What Tesla Knows That Other Patent-Holders Don’t

Harvard Business Review

In fact, it reflects a keen understanding of both innovation and talent. Access to the patents doesn’t ensure that a competitor can execute on an equally innovative product. By giving away access to its patents it is offering competitors a leg up, but not fully ceding its lead in innovation.

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Are You Wasting Money On Useless Knowledge Management?

Harvard Business Review

The first measures the degree to which knowledge is tacit and uncodified, versus explicit and codified. Highly tacit knowledge embodies deep, almost intuitive understanding that is hard to articulate and explain to others and that is rooted in concrete experience. To codifying tacit knowledge?

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Algorithms Make Better Predictions — Except When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. Perhaps the prediction and explanation of an engineer who is proud to have improved a piece of the variable in question. “We

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Algorithms Make Better Predictions — Except When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. Perilous, because bad data and hidden false assumptions can seriously mislead. “2014 is the new normal.