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The Fight Over Tesla Shows How Little Value Dealerships Add

Harvard Business Review

Car dealers and more generally intermediaries represent an extra layer of companies in the supply chain that clearly increases costs to customers. But in many cases they also serve important functions in a supply chain and can create more value than the inefficiencies they cause. But the car market is no longer like this.

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). Since China opened up, the nation has travelled through different stages of development. China, too, needs more technological innovation. ” chart below).

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Why "Break Technologies" Will Change Your Business

Harvard Business Review

At any given point in time, the market will find equilibrium. If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. Everything.

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How to Integrate Data and Analytics into Every Part of Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. increased the number of consecutive games teams played without traveling by 23%. Increase market share? Innovate more effectively?

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. Networked smart vehicles, for example, can safely travel much closer together — a technique known as platooning.

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Apple's Trojan Horse

Harvard Business Review

At a minimum, this Apple TV could change education, hospitality, work, and travel. Now that we''re done, or nearly done, disintermediating old media like the newspaper, and supply chains like the book store, it''s time to solve that vexing problem of having to get ourselves from one place to another. So let''s behold them.

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How to Win with Automation (Hint: It’s Not Chasing Efficiency)

Harvard Business Review

In much the same way, nobody calls a travel agency to book a simple flight anymore. Innovate Business Models. Everything from its supply chain to its customer relationship management are optimized through its use of big data and artificial intelligence. market share in online sales. market share in online sales.