source Google Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, announced on Wednesday that two research projects, Loon and Wing, are becoming independent businesses. Loon, the balloon-flying internet-delivery project and Wing, which is developing a drone-delivery service, are now standalone businesses operating under the Alphabet umbrella. This likely means little to Alphabet’s bottom line for the foreseeable future, but the two projects emerged from Google’s X facility, which is more focused on changing the world. Loon and Wing, two research projects developed within Google’s secretive X research facility, are becoming standalone businesses within Alphabet, Google’s parent company announced Wednesday. Loon is the project that releases massive balloons into the stratosphere carrying the gear needed to supply people in rural communities with an internet connection. Wing seeks to develop the means to deliver goods to consumers … [Read more...] about Alphabet says now is the time for two Google X projects to evolve into standalone businesses
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P&G Acquires the Consumer Health Business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 19, 2018--The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire the Consumer Health business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, for a purchase price of approximately 3.4 billion euro.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180418006692/en/The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire the Consumer Health business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. (Photo: Business Wire)This acquisition enables P&G to expand its successful consumer health care business by adding a fast-growing portfolio of differentiated, physician-supported brands across a broad geographic footprint. It also provides P&G with strong health care commercial and supply capabilities, deep technical mastery and proven consumer health care leadership that will complement P&G's existing consumer Health Care capabilities … [Read more...] about P&G Acquires the Consumer Health Business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
From controlling to empowering: Five practices for building business ecosystems
Video: Why social good is business tech's next big trendIs the hierarchical management mode still suitable for the challenges of the modern economy? Can business leaders compete in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the age of the intelligent connected stakeholder (employees, partners, customers, and communities) without adopting a beginner's mindset that fully recognizes the new currencies of the digital economy -- speed, personalization, scale, and intelligence? Read also: Who's hurt by the ZTE ban? US consumers and businessesMore importantly, can companies compete in a hyper-connected, knowledge-sharing economy without support from a business ecosystem? There is mindset shift that is required to drive business transformation, and it starts with understanding the importance of building business ecosystems. To better understand how companies can build business ecosystems, I spoke with Henry King and Steve Wilt, two extraordinary innovation and transformation leaders at Salesforce. … [Read more...] about From controlling to empowering: Five practices for building business ecosystems
Building a model of the software supply chain
The standard depiction of a software development value stream begins with coding and ends with code in production. You often see devops diagrams that start with “the business” and end with “the customer.” However, this depiction is doesn’t accurately reflect the complexity of software delivery at enterprise scale.Taking a step back, you see many more activities involved in supplying software to customers, but current approaches to managing these activities are rooted in service delivery frameworks and not in production models. As such, they do not connect all activities involved as a single end-to-end system.The model used in other product industries is the supply chain model, and by applying that model to software delivery, you can expand your understanding of the software delivery “system” beyond devops, giving you new insight in to how to optimize it.What is the supply chain?The supply chain starts with the idea that you can coordinate all … [Read more...] about Building a model of the software supply chain
The business landscape is changing – your company should, too
According to a recent report, the United States dropped out of the top 10 in the 2018 Bloomberg Innovation Index for the first time in its history.For six years, Bloomberg has evaluated the business landscapes of countries around the world. The countries are given a score based on seven categories of criteria: research and development spending, manufacturing value added, tertiary efficiency, the concentration of researchers, patent activity, high-tech density and productivity.The countries ranking at the top are those where businesses are embracing technology. The countries earning high marks aren’t just responsible for generating new tech innovations, they’re also seeing widespread adoption of technological advancements.Globally, the business landscape is changing in many ways and innovation isn’t just prized in the Bloomberg Index; it’s the only way for businesses to compete. Businesses need to adapt in order to stay competitive in the global economy. Here are … [Read more...] about The business landscape is changing – your company should, too