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Why Amazon’s Grocery Store May Not Be the Future of Retail

Harvard Business

Amazon Go may face challenges in both respects: It is unclear its eventual savings will justify the investment, or whether customers will find the digital surveillance it entails to be a tolerable price to pay for an improved shopping experience. But the tags never took off, because their cost was never offset by sufficient benefits.

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Don’t Acquire a Company Before You’ve Asked These Questions

Harvard Business

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. What justified the price tags was the value of an engaged user base, locked into an ecosystem that has strong network effects.

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business

Given all the attention that “digital” is getting at the moment, you would be forgiven for thinking that it is somehow new. In fact, the relentless drive to embrace digital technologies has been ongoing for many decades. Consequently, it is useful to think about investments in digital as essentially investments in change.

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How to Develop a Data-Savvy HR Department

Harvard Business

The ultimate goal is not necessarily to transform the analytically resistant into data experts, but to have them see the value in analytics and, ideally, embrace it as a path to success. For instance, learners can be encouraged to tag content, and tags should be visible to content designers and other learners.

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What Amazon’s HQ2 Wish List Signals About the Future of Cities

Harvard Business

The city that lands this historic deal will see its economic and physical landscape transformed, albeit for a hefty price tag in the form of tax breaks. Digital industries are a main driver of growth within these high-value industries. So how can cities garner a bigger share of high-tech growth?

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. There’s no denying that it is a retailer, but it also has a digital platform rather than physical stores, and nearly 50% of the units sold through its website are sold by third-party sellers. It’s not an industry in itself.

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How Are You Spending Your Social-Distancing “Vacation”?

Prudent Pedal

I hope to complete The Practice Leader’s Guide to Growth and The Prudent Firm’s Guide to Transforming Professional Service Marketing. Google Tag Manager: I stumbled across Loves Data on YouTube. Write 2 new white papers-I have five white papers swirling around in my mind. I recommend both. Check it out and perhaps add it to your list.

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