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Innovate Forward

Leading Blog

In cities, new 5G wireless networks will be the first generation of cell network designed to connect more than just phones. It will transform how we develop, market, sell, distribute, support, and monetize products and services. To streamline operations and control costs. New technology will change the way we work.

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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

Target predicts customer pregnancy in order to market relevant products accordingly. Organizations of all kinds benefit by applying predictive analytics, since there's ample room for operational improvement; organizations are intrinsically inefficient and wasteful on a grand scale. The system grades as accurately as human graders.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Formerly SVP in charge of wireless communication. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. World authority on project management.

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How GM Uses Social Media to Improve Cars and Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. Because of the exponential growth of social media in recent years, and the fact nearly half of U.S.

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The Social Side of Auto-Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Trackers include smartphone apps or wireless sensors to collect and monitor yourself over time. PatientsLikeMe and 23andMe are the leading operators of researcher-organized, crowdsourced health research studies. From there, it's a matter of running experiments and iterative measurement to see if you're making progress.

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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. For example, AT&T had to spend almost $18 billion in a single year to upgrade its wireless networks to handle the onslaught of new traffic. Its market cap has steadily grown over the same period and stood at around US$30 billion as of 2010. The trend is spreading.

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Big Companies Can Unleash Innovation, Rather than Shackle It

Harvard Business Review

Medtronic used business model innovation to enter markets formerly out of its reach. It follows in the footsteps of Vodafone ( M-Pesa mobile payment service in Africa ), Dow Corning (Xiameter online channel), and Hilti (tool fleet management services) as a market leader using a new model to power growth.