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When AI Becomes the New Face of Your Brand

Harvard Business

These include customer service (39% of companies), marketing and sales (35%), and even the managing of noncustomer external relationships (28%) where brand power is key, such as in attracting top talent into the organization’s recruiting pipeline. In Hong Kong Hanson Robotics is developing robots with human features.

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France Seeks Another Tax on Facebook, Google And YouTube, to Finance "French Culture" Cinema

MishTalk

These platforms have been developing partnerships with audiovisual publishers and content providers for years, with which they share revenues from advertising," the report [in French] said. Subsidies For Films No One Watches Forbes has some interesting comments as well. France’s audiovisual regulator thinks so. billion ($1.8

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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. Traditional carmakers are desperately trying to catch up with tech companies who have had a head start in developing driverless tech. But one thing it didn’t get right was the flying cars; instead, the closest thing we have are driverless cars.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business

At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. Trouble was, the launch violated eBay’s well-established corporate project-development processes. Developing the Global Leader. A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections.

Education 102
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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.

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A Professional Services Marketing Self-Assessment

Prudent Pedal

Staff ineptness, website deficiencies, social media strategies, misallocated marketing budgets, the absence of brochures, lack of sales and marketing integration, CRM, or cross-selling demands are common complaints. More than I care to admit over my career as a Marketing leader, I developed a long list of “right solution, wrong problem.”

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business

At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. Trouble was, the launch violated eBay’s well-established corporate project-development processes. Developing the Global Leader. A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections.