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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. Development approaches.

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Companies Are Turning Drones into a Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business

Airlines Easyjet and Lufthansa have adopted drones as a tool for aircraft inspections. Soon, it might be worthwhile for many companies to check whether drone-based data could add value – either to optimize current operations or offer new avenues for growth.

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How Machine Learning Is Helping Us Predict Heart Disease and Diabetes

Harvard Business

Using that system, a doctor assesses the patient’s age, cholesterol, weight, blood pressure, and several other factors to arrive at the individual’s chances of developing cardiovascular disease over the next 10 years. Other algorithms are being developed to assist physicians in making diagnoses.

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