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Future-Proofing Your Business 2020

Strategy Driven

The other side offers raging competition as the internet opens up the market to international players through innovation and technology that is hard to keep up with. Do not dismiss an innovation, thinking it is too early for its implementation. Hardware, licensing costs, and public servers can be costly. Keep trying, though.

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Reinvent Your Company by Reassessing Its Strengths

Harvard Business Review

Frito-Lay’s direct-to-store delivery capability, Inditex’s fast-fashion supply chain, and Toyota’s production system took years to hone into true sources of enterprise differentiation. But the capabilities — from merchandising to managing store staff and operating the supply chain — are very different for a small-store format.

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The Pitfalls (and Upsides) of Partnering with Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Persuaded initially by the entrepreneur’s whiz bang innovation, corporate executives can then find themselves stuck in a morass of very basic coaching and grooming of their young new partners on the one hand, while fending off the cries of delayed shipments or poor quality from customers further down the line. (No Then there’s the upside.

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Centralized Decision Making Helps Kill Bad Products

Harvard Business Review

Inside, elaborate security procedures, long working hours, and deference to senior managers are all in plain view. Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. In such cases, managers often hang on in the hope of an eventual uptake. Killing products isn’t easy.

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Aereo TV: Barely Legal By Design

Harvard Business Review

has no television license tax. Even though the VCR was technically making a copy of the program without a license to do so, the Court found that copying fit into a narrow exception to the otherwise exclusive rights of the copyright holder — an exception known as a "fair use.". So what's the real innovation here?

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The Downside of Health Care Job Growth

Harvard Business Review

Surprisingly, 10 of the 16 non-doctor workers are purely administrative and management staff, receptionists and information clerks, and office clerks. For example, new innovative reimbursement models aim to reward providers for lowering health care costs on the supply side.

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How Blockchain Will Accelerate Business Performance and Power the Smart Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

A blockchain-powered solution would capture information about the product from participants across the supply chain and from different perspectives. Powering the Supply Chain with Internet of Things (IoT) technology. He’ll need proof of a driver’s license, a loan, and insurance.