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The Importance of “Know Why”?

QAspire

A lot of people possess a very sound “ know-what ” – knowledge of facts, figures and methods. Sales and marketing folks focus on “ know-who ” – people they know, have met and have a business relationship with. Understanding the purpose, context and meaning requires something more than simple “explicit knowledge”.

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Experimenting 100 innovative solutions over 20 countries in Africa

Innovation Excellence

Another is in the market, by developing a relationship with the people working in a business unit in the area of expertise of the entrepreneur. APIs are a great way to foster open innovation as they’re like “explicit knowledge” that startups can access on a shelf.

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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

Marketing experiments that might have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in 1995 might cost a couple of hundred dollars in 2015; maybe less. What makes today—and tomorrow —so very, very different from even a decade or five years ago is how the cost and complexity of running serious “large scale” human experiments have radically declined.

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