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How Small Changes Can Heal Business, and Spark Big Results

February 25, 2016

A car that parks itself. A drone “cameraman” capturing your sweet ski flip. 3-D printed jewelry. A selfie video of your weekend in Paris that’s worthy of the Travelogue Channel. Drink up because your Uber car just arrived. Our daily lives have, in many cases, already gone digital, starting when we took one single step (often on a smartphone or tablet) that created a ripple effect that helped guide and inform our interactions with people, places and things. But what about your organization’s business processes? How could a precision twist on digitization bring value to an entire value chain?

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