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Exploring the Scope (and Opportunities) of Digital Transformation

Mike Griffiths

Two years ago, the list of largest all-remote companies were nearly all software companies. Companies such as Humana (health insurance), Amgen (biotech), Automattic (web tools) are not only all-remote, digital success stories – they also run a lot of employee-led experiments. The world of work is changing. Transforming Purpose.

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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. All of this needs to be addressed before factory operations can move at software speed. Often, operators need the use of their hands and must take pictures with a wearable camera.

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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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Why Germany Dominates the U.S. in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. Reading the headlines, you might think that the most urgent question about national success in innovation and growth is whether the U.S. or China should get the gold medal.

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Productivity Is Soaring at Top Firms and Sluggish Everywhere Else

Harvard Business Review

Some argue that the low-hanging fruit has already been picked: the IT revolution has run its course and other new technologies like biotech have yet to make a major impact on our lives. Fourth, investment in innovation should extend beyond technology to include skills, software, organisational know-how (i.e. managerial quality).

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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

It’s an illustration of how, just as the internet didn’t stop at revolutionizing the computer industry, the impacts of advances in synthetic biology won’t be limited to biotech.

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How Domino’s Pizza Reinvented Itself

Harvard Business Review

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. 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.

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