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Optimizing R&D Resources: Strategies for CTOs and Innovation Leaders

ITONICS

Between 2007 and 2022, corporate R&D spending grew with a CAGR of 5.2%, underscoring the importance of R&D in driving future growth and market differentiation ( Global Innovation Tracker, 2023 ). In the past decades, research and development (R&D) expenses have surged across various industries.

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The Internet of Things Is Changing How We Manage Customer Relationships

Harvard Business Review

.” Today, CRM pervades the way many companies track and measure how they interact with other organizations, across many departments: marketing, sales, customer service, support, and others. With every passing day there are more examples of Internet of Things adoption. It works incredibly well.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

Smart assistants like Alexa (Amazon), Google Assistant (Google) or Siri (Apple) are the first mass-market examples of how voice interfaces could look like in the future. If you bought Radiohead’s 2007 album In Rainbows or a digital package at Humble Bundle , you’ve participated in the ‘pay what you want’ sales model.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

Smart assistants like Alexa (Amazon), Google Assistant (Google) or Siri (Apple) are the first mass-market examples of how voice interfaces could look like in the future. If you bought Radiohead’s 2007 album In Rainbows or a digital package at Humble Bundle , you’ve participated in the ‘pay what you want’ sales model.

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How the Meaning of Digital Transformation Has Evolved

Harvard Business Review

Think back to 2007. Today, executives are directing their energy toward artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of Things. In 2007, companies lacked a mobile strategy, let alone a mobile presence for engaging with their customers or for helping employees collaborate. A young U.S.

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The U.S. Can’t Count on Technology to Revive the Job Market

Harvard Business Review

Job recovery after the 2007 recession is happening, but slowly, and wage growth is still anemic. The declines in manufacturing jobs during the downturns of 2001 and 2007, which totaled over 5.8 Apart from the effects of the recession, there are concerns about the future of employment in the United States. manufacturing output.

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Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year

Harvard Business Review

Each branch makes its own loan decisions, sets its own pricing on loans and deposits, controls its own marketing budget, runs its own website (on a shared platform), and serves all customer segments — from individuals to multinationals — within its catchment area. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized.