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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand. While this position may seem a bit harsh, it is nonetheless true. In today’s blog post I’ll examine why design matters.

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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

But we now see insurers exploiting geographically refined data to more precisely estimate land parcel risk. When valuing these rebates, Re:focus relies on Risk Management Solutions’ modeling software to accurately judge how much a project reduces disaster risk.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. In the core business, MedStar developed a series of new devices, software, diagnostics, and therapeutics to improve specialized care at its hospitals.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. Europe’s gap is concentrated heavily in electronics, software, and internet services. billion).

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