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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

Harvard Business Review

Advanced analytics, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and other innovations are making it possible for companies to compete in new and very different ways. But new sources of crop, weather, and other data have created new opportunities to boost farm productivity.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

For some time now we’ve been living into a smarter world filled with Big Data and analytics, and a more connected one that’s been described as “ the internet of things.” GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors.

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The Board Directors You Need for a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Early transformation efforts were focused on initiatives: e-commerce, sensors/internet of things, applications, client and customer experience, and so on. We started tracking the role of digital in the boardroom in 2012. As evidenced by the recent Amazon acquisition of Whole Foods, we’re living in a new world.

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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business Review

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings. And now it’s happening with digital transformation.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

This tracker is interesting because it combines big data management with a photographic memory. The Quantified Self movement takes the aspect of simply tracking the raw data to try and draw correlations and ways to improve our lives from it. By the end of 2012, users had earned $5m by selling their own designs on the platform.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

This tracker is interesting because it combines big data management with a photographic memory. The Quantified Self movement takes the aspect of simply tracking the raw data to try and draw correlations and ways to improve our lives from it. By the end of 2012, users had earned $5m by selling their own designs on the platform.