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HP Headed to Hotel California?

Women on Business

that focuses on customers and innovation. It has all the bells and whistles; its wireless, Bluetooth compatible and an all in one (fax, scanner, and printer) machine. The HP Board of Directors has to be focused on prevention and good business practices to build a long term strategy. HP Has Decreasing Product Quality.

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Big Companies Can Unleash Innovation, Rather than Shackle It

Harvard Business Review

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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The Stakeholders You Need to Close a Big Deal

Harvard Business Review

Based on many years as a business founder, advisor, and investor, I would argue that getting the green light has as much to do with understanding human nature as it does with business fundamentals and finances. Entrepreneurship Innovation Sales' Even more, it requires understanding their motivations.

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The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products

Harvard Business Review

The resulting GlowCap offering provides continuous, real-time communication to users and caregivers via a wireless connection. Finance teams, which are not known for their flexibility to begin with, often have trouble changing their traditional planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes to accommodate radically new IoT business models.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Mobile Money Is Driving Africa’s Cashless Future

Harvard Business Review

Other mobile service operators are also vying to release innovations to help customers pay for things without cash, receive money from abroad, and obtain micro loans and insurance products. Finance Global business Technology' These trends are not limited to customers.

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What Health Care Can Learn from the Transformation of Financial Services

Harvard Business Review

Innovating for Value in Health Care. When people sign up for Omada’s offering, they receive a wireless, digital bathroom scale, pedometer, resistance band, and tape measure. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. Leverage big data.