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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. 2: Disaggregate. 7 Steps to Problem Solving. 1: Define the problem.

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How Demand Forecasting Can Boost Business Efficiency

Strategy Driven

Macro Demand Forecasting: The “big picture” demand forecasting technique that looks ahead at broader market conditions to help plan a business’s overarching strategies. Businesses use all kinds of tools and technologies to implement these methods, from relatively simple research surveys to complex data modeling tools.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Accompanying these peer economy companies are others (like Zipcar) which simply leverage technology and lower transaction costs to make flexible renting a viable alternative to asset acquisition.

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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

Many of the technologies we now take for granted were quiet revolutions in their time. The market cap of bitcoin now hovers between $10–$20 billion dollars, and is used by millions of people for payments, including a large and growing remittances market. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

MIT Technology Review didn't pick a winner, but on its recent list of top 50 "disruptors," the magazine mixed stalwarts such as General Electric and IBM with up-and-comers, Square and Coursera. So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. The editors of Fast Company say Nike.

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Traditional Strategy Is Dead. Welcome to the #SocialEra

Harvard Business Review

The fact that they are joined at the hip in so many people's minds means that marketing agencies are thriving — but that the rest of our organizations are not. They see it as the purview of two functions: marketing and service. Social can be and is more than marketing or communications-related work. But they shouldn't be.

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The World Needs a DARPA-Style Project to Prevent Pandemics

Harvard Business Review

And it’s not as effective as it could be, because the money is allocated in a disaggregated manner. In the long run, the proposition of global market collapse due to biological and pandemic risks cannot be offset by the potential rewards of the next big lifestyle drug. Science/technology community. It’s not enough.