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IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology

Harvard Business Review

Disruptive innovations begin at the low-margin, high commodity end of the stack and move upward over time, and IT is most likely not going to be an exception. Most CIOs will benefit from this trend through increased competition, better prices, and quicker provisioning. IT management Information & technology Technology'

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. ” Failure to grasp such disruptions — and adapt quickly — can be fatal.

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The More Things Change, the More They Don't Stay the Same

Harvard Business Review

The main effect of higher productivity is to make labor more valuable; therefore it stands to reason that employers would — in the classic logic of "if you liked it that price, you'll love it at this one" — snap up more of it. Out of their work came a new business focus on "time to market" and "cycle time."

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Performing market assessments. Pricing and revenue modeling. cloud, big data, networking) tend to be engineering driven, where engineers are advancing the science in their domain and PMs validate solutions or create front end access points (UIs, APIs) to tap into this new technology. Feature prioritization and roadmap planning.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.