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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We have identified how hospitals’ budgeting systems have erected three distinct barriers to the adoption of technology. These barriers, however, can be overcome by changing how hospitals acquire new technology and by providing incentives to units to use digital innovations to provide more effective and efficient care.

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Why Some Digital Companies Should Delay Profitability for as Long as They Can

Harvard Business Review

In the world of technology: the more of something you make, the more valuable it can become. For years, AWS has invested in driving developer and company adoption of its platform by driving down prices and introducing low cost features to make developer’s lives easier. The Refresher: Net Present Value.

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How Marketers Can Avoid Big Data Blind Spots

Harvard Business Review

However, in-depth analytics revealed that customers’ decisions to switch energy providers were driven by their and competitors’ prices, advertising and company’s position in in social media, TV, print and other mass media. Information & technology Marketing' customer surveys). Marketing analytics is far from a monolithic approach.

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What Xerox PARC Learned About Executing on Open Innovation

Harvard Business Review

At that time it was hard for PARC to understand how much we needed to invest in a new technology before approaching partners to work together in commercialization. In its simplest from, an "option" is the right to buy or sell something at a certain price within a certain period of time. Net Present Value ).

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When It Pays to Think Like a Finance Manager

Harvard Business Review

Everyone always wants new equipment — new computers or other hot technologies. Do you think they’re going to do a net present value (NPV) analysis that shows they don’t need that computer? The two founding partners were both engineers who loved technology. The actual price turned out to be $3.1