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Here Are All the Reasons It’s a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data

Harvard Business Review

political system, including the 2016 U.S. ” It heightened concerns over today’s tech giants and the influence they have. ” By that I mean companies that control a key platform which, like a coral reef, attracts to its ecosystem users, sellers, advertisers, software developers, apps, and accessory makers.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. This is not guesswork. billion stake.

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How a Startup Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital Helps Doctors Launch Companies

Harvard Business Review

While it’s still early days (we launched this accelerator in early 2016), we believe the accelerator has scored enough successes to prove that the model can work. But only 34% were actively piloting a digital technology in clinical practice. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Give constructive rejections.

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How India Is Moving Toward a Digital-First Economy

Harvard Business Review

On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that had no other government had attempted before at the same scale: it decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation. Ashima Narula/EyeEm/Getty Images. The country is moving rapidly toward a digital-first economy.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

The UK tech sector has been among the groups most vigorously opposed to exiting. A survey of members of Tech London Advocates, an industry group, revealed that 87% opposed Brexit. These are real concerns for the UK economy overall as the tech sector accounts for around 10% of British GDP. The prognosis is not good.

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Why Peter Drucker’s Writing Still Feels So Relevant

Harvard Business Review

In an era of rapid technological and social change, in which new management jargons seem to rise even faster than the disruptive startups that coin them, the career of Peter Drucker is perhaps as instructive as his writings themselves. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. But the story behind his career only begins there.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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