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Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform

Harvard Business

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. This truth could be very different from what the company thought it was or was marketing it as.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.”

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Access to Digital Technology Accelerates Global Gender Equality

Harvard Business

Accenture surveyed nearly 5,000 men and women in 31 countries, exploring their use of technology, including access to devices like smartphones and wireless wearable devices, and the frequency with which they use them. At the current pace such equality won’t be achieved until 2065 in developed nations and 2100 in developing countries.

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An Ex-Consultant’s Jump into the Start Up World

Management Consulted

Altman Vilandrie is a boutique management consulting firm that focuses pretty exclusively on telecom, media and tech (TMT), so it does a lot of work with internet service providers, wireless providers, mobile manufacturers, and also a lot of work in the online advertising and media side of things as well. Okay, great. So that was one.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development. June, 13-14, Cracow, Poland ACE! This year’s event will embrace two tracks.

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A Short History of Radio Explains the iPhone’s Success

Harvard Business

The iPhone roared into the marketplace 10 years ago today, and overwhelmed the wireless world. Wireless is the same, but without the cat. Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result. The FCC quickly developed a “public interest” rationale for the move: sunspots.

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Success with the Internet of Things Requires More Than Chasing the Cool Factor

Harvard Business

In my experience with dozens of organizations implementing IoT solutions, those that achieved their expected ROI changed their traditional business approaches in one or more of the following ways: They Developed a Partner Ecosystem. The essence of IoT is interconnectivity. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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