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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

It is then through managing your future development, mostly through research and development, that when combined with a sound acquisition strategy, that you believe will then augment your present internal growth and look to sustain the business. In reality, its free cash flow can’t pay its obligations. Could this have been foreseen?

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Rethinking Security for the Internet of Things

Harvard Business Review

In 2012 a hacker built and revealed a simple device that can open Onity-brand electronic locks (which secure over 4 million hotel room doors ) without a key. Robust security is hard to achieve, and mistakes in proprietary approaches often manifest themselves only when a third party has succeeded in uncovering a security weakness.

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The Innovative Mindset Your Company Can’t Afford to Lose

Harvard Business Review

He was dealing with diabetes-related medical devices that communicated poorly — or not at all — with mobile devices and the rest of the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT). They are not completely alone in the race to development (Medtronic is working on a similar system) and they will need regulatory approval.

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How Nokia Embraced the Emotional Side of Strategy

Harvard Business Review

However, Nokia held on to Symbian until 2011, when it eventually switched to Windows operating system, which also underperformed. This bold strategic leap was, we found, in part facilitated by Nokia’s newly appointed board who actively attended to top managers’ emotions in 2012-2013. Not until there’s an option.

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How to Understand the EU-U.S. Digital Divide

Harvard Business Review

Until now, the EU had hoped to drive down prices for DSL-based Internet services by forcing network providers to open their facilities at discounted prices to new entrants. Congress, however, wisely left the internet out of that experiment , letting fixed and mobile broadband access markets to develop largely on their own.

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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

What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? You could start with bootcamps – a great way of developing new concepts in a short time. You can even develop your own in-house start-up accelerator like Sanoma did!