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The Four Technologies You Need to Be Working With

Harvard Business Review

Wireless connectivity. When they get to the car, they wave their membership card over a sensor on the windshield (the card and sensor communicate wirelessly), which triggers a wireless query back to the company's database to make sure the user is OK to take the car. As the member travels around, the car's location is tracked via GPS.

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T-Mobile Hasn’t Incited a Price War…Yet

Harvard Business Review

First, its CEO, John Legere, was ceremoniously kicked out of a Las Vegas party thrown by wireless rival AT&T. wireless carrier’s offer to pay up to $650 for new customers to switch to its service. Since early last year, T-Mobile has spearheaded what I call a value war — as opposed to a price war — in the wireless market.

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3 Kinds of Jobs That Will Thrive as Automation Advances

Harvard Business Review

And it’s not just low skilled, manual labor that’s at risk — “knowledge” work like operational analytics and marketing is also being taken over by sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms. But other changes are also afoot, changes that could allow the human dimension of work to become more important.

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Your Biggest Cybersecurity Weakness Is Your Phone

Harvard Business Review

Employee data was cited by 37%, followed by wireless access of networks at 34% and bring-your-own-device efforts at 29%.). Android is a fragmented mobile operating system. Employees traveling abroad can also become easy targets without security know-how. Meanwhile, the potential for mobile attacks continues to expand.

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How Digital Health Care Can Help Prevent Chronic Diseases Like Diabetes

Harvard Business Review

One of the barriers to getting prediabetics to participate in these in-person programs is the time and expense required to travel to and attend them. How leading providers are delivering value for patients. Emphasis on outcomes.

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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

Further, we'll see a roll-out of 4G wireless services across the country in 2012. As in China several years ago, there's a reluctance to pay for goods using the Web; most of today's online transactions are in the travel industry (representing 87 percent of a $6.3 Granted, only 11 percent of Indian online users are transacting online.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business Review

Just imagine the operational demand if primary care providers also had to actively monitor their patients’ health data between office visits. Our view is that early conceptions of connected health and the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) traveled a flawed path. A Way Forward.