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Exploring the Scope (and Opportunities) of Digital Transformation

Mike Griffiths

The company was formed by two boat-building partners who honed their specialization (boat designs), hire a skilled workforce, and operate from an office in the marina. Two years ago, the list of largest all-remote companies were nearly all software companies. Most organizations will never become remote, co-operative innovation labs.

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What Augmentation Is (And What It Isn’t Yet)

Chief Executive

Line clearance is most commonly used in regulated industries, such as pharmaceuticals, biotech, and food and beverage manufacturing. Often, operators need the use of their hands and must take pictures with a wearable camera. However, advanced sensors that would truly transform industrial operations are still costly.

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A Partnership Is Not a Purchase Order

Harvard Business Review

In its heyday, when Sun sold servers running its proprietary architecture and software, the company bought semiconductors from major vendors, such as Fujitsu in Japan. The Sun-Netscape Alliance was formed when AOL acquired Netscape in 1998 but then sought to spin out the software operations of Netscape.

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How Domino’s Pizza Reinvented Itself

Harvard Business Review

I spent the last 18 months researching and writing a book on how organizations and leaders can do extraordinary things, even if they operate in pretty ordinary fields. You don’t have to be a programmer in Silicon Valley or a gene splicer in biotech to unleash exciting innovations and create huge value.

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How to Get People to Collaborate When You Don’t Control Their Salary

Harvard Business Review

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

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Run B2B Sales on Data, Not Hunches

Harvard Business Review

They view the process of collecting direct and more frequent feedback from these stakeholders as the first step in supporting sales representatives, account managers, operations teams and service agents in solving customers’ problems and earning more of their business. How is this different from relying on anecdote and myth?

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In doing so, Dr Reddy's strengthens its core generic drugs business and boosts the custom manufacturing services it provides to Big Pharma and nimble biotech startups. You can't run your global R&D operations from headquarters in Mumbai. are aimed at finding ways to lower the cost of its core activities like software testing.

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