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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. But they will need to adopt the more hard-headed way that Silicon Valley companies evaluate acquisitions for their deals to pay off. Insight Center.

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Blockchain for Supply Chain – Insights from Berlin

Tom Spencer

It wasn’t a pure tech innovation, there was social motivation behind it as well. But they don’t because they love the movement and what it represents, so they stay and they keep running their companies. Tell me about what company you currently work for and what you do there. No, ScanTrust isn’t a blockchain company.

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Technology is Changing Unexpected jobs

Martinka Consulting

Kitchens have become high-tech with Wi-Fi appliances, Amazon Echo or Google Home devices providing recipes, being a timer, and more. Bill bought a company that, in simple terms, sold blocks of service time. You might think construction as people still pound nails, drive screws, lay flooring, etc.

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

Harvard Business

When Amazon opened its cashier-less concept grocery store to the public in Seattle on January 22, the company’s stock rose 2.5% – slightly more than the 2.4% Starting in the mid-1990s, RFID was expected to transform inventory control by using electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects.

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

For more than 60 years, investors, analysts, business leaders, and even governments, have classified companies based on industries. There were no tech companies back then, at least not as we currently define them. They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS.

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Part 3: Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile with Skills, Endorsements & Accomplishments

Successful Independent Consulting

The first article in this series about how to optimize LinkedIn profiles explains how to create an excellent first impression with a photo, background image, and a succinct “tag line” to summarize your brand and expertise. It’s OK to list projects you did as an employee; you don’t have to mention the company name.

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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. As our research has shown, the vibrant metros of the future will be those that are home to high-tech advanced industries. So how can cities garner a bigger share of high-tech growth?