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What Should an Apple Car Be?

Harvard Business Review

With that in mind, I can see three potential scenarios for how Apple might play in the autonomous car market. Some of them may never enter the car market, or may at least significantly delay a move toward ownership. Apple has a great intuitive feel for how consumers see a market, versus how manufacturers see it. Or a kitchen?

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Reinvent Your Company by Reassessing Its Strengths

Harvard Business Review

If a company’s leaders understand the capabilities that define its unique identity, they’ll make smarter decisions about what businesses to buy and sell, what markets to enter and exit, what to prioritize in new product development, how to manage costs, where to invest, and all the other choices that are inherent in sustaining a great company.

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The 4 Things It Takes to Succeed in the Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

For an upcoming MIT symposium on the topic, we’re focusing on four main themes: customer expectations, product enhancements, collaborative innovations, and organizational forms. Collaborative innovations. Companies must become more innovative to better respond to the highly competitive, global business environment.

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Entrepreneurs Get Better with Age

Harvard Business Review

Kellond, 43, founded Bia Sport, a GPS sports watch that records time, current heart rate, sending the data straight to an online profile. At age 53, Avey is on her second start-up, Curious, a tool that gives people tools to ask questions about their health through data aggregation and sharing.

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Is Your Social Venture Really Worth Scaling?

Harvard Business Review

In a previous post , I outlined the key capabilities I've found to be present in the social ventures that are able to reach sizeable impact (which can be remembered with the acronym SCALERS—they are Staffing, Communicating, Alliance-Building, Lobbying, Earnings-Generation, Replicating, and Stimulating Market Forces).

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The Social Side of Auto-Analytics

Harvard Business Review

It grows out of insights in fields like high-performance sports science, cognitive science, and health care. We can take some guidance from the health-care field. For instance, some participants are seeing if treadmill desks measurably boost output as they write computer code or marketing copy.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched.

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