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Why Technology MattersTRANSCRIPT
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What Have Been the Biggest Stories in Human History?
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The Next Industrial Revolution
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Technology’s Role in Competition: Overcoming HiPPOs, Mountains, and
Fragments
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Overcoming HiPPOs: Becoming More Scientific
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How Most Companies Make Decisions
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How Science Works
“It doesn’t make a difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t make a difference how smart you are if you made the guess, or what his name is… If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.” - Richard Feynman, 1964
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Overcoming Mountains: Becoming More Orchestrated
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The Problem of a Large Enterprise
“The mountains are high, and the emperor is far away”- Imperial Chinese proverb
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Tighter Orchestration through Monitoring
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Overcoming Isolation: Enabling Self-Organization
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The Problem, and a Solution
“If only HP knew what HP knows, we would be three times more productive.” - Lew Platt, former CEO of HP
“Only connect!... Live in fragments no longer .” - E. M. Forster
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Self-Organization in Action
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Technology and Competition