The key to creating value from external data is to get as many people involved as possible using the sort of technologies mentioned in this article.

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The benefits of this intelligence to consumers are becoming more apparent as the technologies I mentioned earlier make their way to the marketplace.

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The form of this creative destructive will almost certainly be based on digital technologies (as they were in the other above-mentioned industries).

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