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Strategy, Not Technology, Is the Key to Winning with GenAI

Harvard Business Review

The explosion of AI startups in dozens of sectors masks something many of them share: They are increasingly built on top of standardized technology from a few AI giants like OpenAI, Google, and Meta. This puts a premium on strategy over proprietary technology.

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Using Technology to Improve Supply-Chain Resilience

Harvard Business Review

This article discusses how today’s supply chain technology can help businesses build more resilience into their supply chains moving forward. What they need is a more modern, more responsive supply chain platform.

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How Leaders Can Be Stewards of “Good Tech”

Harvard Business Review

It’s always been important for companies to take responsibility for the creation, application, and disruption of the technologies they create and use, but now that the rapid application of AI is affecting people’s privacy, security, and daily lives as never before, accepting that responsibility is essential.

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Why the Tech Industry Won’t Disrupt Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Digital technology advances have the power to help address the shortcomings of care delivery: It costs too much, its quality isn’t what it could and should be, and millions of people live hundreds of miles from the nearest hospital and/or don’t have a primary care doctor.

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New Technology Is Overwhelming Sales Teams

Harvard Business Review

Technology has long been used to boost seller productivity, but sales leaders are telling us that efficiency gains have become slower and more expensive. This is because technology intended to help sell frequently makes the salesperson’s job more cumbersome.

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New Technologies Arrive in Clusters. What Does That Mean for AI?

Harvard Business Review

Historically, technology arrives in clusters. With the printing press came the technologies to make large quantities of cheap paper and ink. With electrification came dynamos, generators, switch gears and power distribution system.

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How Companies Can Help Universities Train Tech Workers

Harvard Business Review

Companies across the economy require new tech workers who have the training in state-of-the art technologies so they can hit the ground running. A model that has been applied at universities such as Arizona State, the University of California San Diego, and Oregon State, and Purdue can help address this need.

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