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The Gear That Makes Consulting So Much Easier!

Tom Spencer

Wireless Mouse. Much of consulting involves video calls and that was true even before COVID. It doesn’t have to be Away branded (I personally use a travel suitcase from a startup) but investing in a higher tech functional product is smart. Improvements in Work Efficiency and Effectiveness. Bottom Line.

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Meet "OSHbot" Lowes New Store Helper; Goodbye Retail Associates, Hello Robots

MishTalk

Advances in sensors, wireless networking, voice recognition and design prototyping are enabling us to build the smart retail robots that can autonomously navigate through stores, help communicate with customers to understand what they need and locate it quickly. OSHbot incorporates the latest of these advanced technologies.

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What Health Care Can Learn from the Transformation of Financial Services

Harvard Business

In response, these companies made three significant shifts in their offerings: (1) they turned services into products; (2) they improved convenience while lowering cost; and (3) they leveraged big data to provide tailored customer solutions. Turn services into products. Insight Center. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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AT&T, Time Warner, and What Makes Vertical Mergers Succeed

Harvard Business

Combining the second-largest wireless carrier with the fourth-biggest entertainment company — one whose impressive assets include HBO and CNN — is likely to create an unassailable mobile-entertainment business. Broadband has made the experience of consuming content far better than it was with dial-up. Rejuvenating the core.

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Zoom phone vs Ring Central: Pros & Cons from our CTO

Kraft Kennedy

Headsets are half the cost of a handset, even the wireless, noise-cancellation variety. Starting with voicemail messages sent via email, the integration has grown to chat/presence, video conferencing, virtual whiteboard, and even beyond when you think about a Microsoft Teams solution.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business

Nonetheless, even those parts of care that could be freed from the doctor’s office remain tied to it, with schedules optimized for doctors’ productivity rather than what’s best for the patient. Much of what used to be restricted to clinical settings can now, from a purely technical perspective, be handled remotely.

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How disruptive is the 'Sharing Economy'?

freshminds

However, for many businesses, the sharing economy has the ability to be incorporated into current products by focusing on designing ways in which they can be sharable. Car companies are also starting to develop wireless entry mechanisms so that owners can rent their vehicle without having to hand over keys.

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