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Is The Gig Economy Set To Disrupt The Legal Profession?

The Horizons Tracker

The study explores the Chinese market after the country’s Ministry of Justice made online legal services a key part of its strategy. In other words, they’re professionals who were struggling to find sufficient work at the lower end of the legal market. Disrupting the market.

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“Competitive Intelligence” Shouldn’t Just Be About Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

For the next year, Jessica Eliasi, then the director of Competitive Intelligence at Mars Chocolate, travelled the world running “competitive simulation” games with local market teams from Russia to Mexico to Turkey to England. She then fed the results as market intelligence input into a senior leadership competitive game.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. So what happened?

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Digital Strategy Does Not Equal IT Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation. They grow faster.

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To See the Future of Competition, Look at Netflix

Harvard Business Review

I don’t think I’ve learned more about strategy, technology, and culture from any other company I’ve studied. The company, which is barely 20 years old, has a stock-market value of nearly $165 billion , more than Disney. ” Wealth creation? Cultural sway? million subscribers.