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Tag Archives: Small Businesses
Oracles and Interlocutors, Revisited (Why the way small organizations use AI matters more than whether they use it at all)
A while back, I argued that there are two ways to put AI to work. You can treat it as an oracle — an answer machine you query and obey — or as an interlocutor, a thinking partner that sharpens … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Problem-solving, Nonprofits
Tagged AI, Decision Making, Nonprofits, Problem Definition, Problem Solving, Small Businesses, Strategy
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The dawn of the “craft economy”?
In a 2012 Harvard Business Review article, Maxwell Wessel made an interesting point. He argued that the corporate scale had ceased providing large companies with the same competitive advantage as it used to in the past. Being bigger doesn’t guarantee … Continue reading
Posted in Global Innovation, Innovation, Startups
Tagged Alibaba.com, Collaborative Innovation, Collaborative Innovation Transforming Business, competitive advantage, Craft Economy, David, Disruptive Innovation, Driving Growth, Goliath, Harvard Business Review, Innovation, Innovation Management, innovation tools, Job security, Maxwell Wessel, Nicco Mele, Radical Innovation, Small Businesses, Startups, World Economic Forum
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