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Driverless technology: a soon-to-be reality?

Tom Spencer

Flash forward over 30 years, much of the tech that the film predicted has come true. However, it does indicate the industry’s optimism. Traditional carmakers are desperately trying to catch up with tech companies who have had a head start in developing driverless tech.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs. They are certainly important components, but they are not enough. We think cities can do better.

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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

Borders began as a standard bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Michigan in 1971 and grew to employ almost 20,000 workers before it ceased operations in 2011. But many would say that Kodak failed because they didn’t foresee how quickly and completely digital cameras would take over the industry that depended on film sales.

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Companies Are Turning Drones into a Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business

While 60% of drone usage currently relates to communications and media such as for film making and commercial photography, new higher-value applications are on their way, as drones have a significant advantage in terms of precision, convenience, and cost over more traditional solutions such as satellites and helicopters.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. .” Consider Fuji Photo Film.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

in business, clearly have a love for aviation and were a professional in the aviation industry from 2006 to 2010. I worked with them for about 6 months basically as an associate producer doing different things, and then that translated into a job as a full-time producer at Inertia Films where I’m at today. You graduated with your B.S.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

How To 28