Venkatash Rao controversially suggests that businesses are better off being product-driven as opposed to customer-driven, as businesses cannot fully turn off their internal dialogue and thus cannot truly listen to the needs of their customers. In his view, businesses always think lowly of their customers, but not all of them will be honest about it. So, instead of pretending to be customer-driven and failing to deliver, it’s better to create a product and then find a market that will benefit from it. Read full article here
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‘Ghostly’ neutrinos provide new path to study protons
In groundbreaking research, an international collaboration of scientists from the University of Rochester have used a beam of neutrinos to measure the size and shape of the protons that make up the nuclei of atoms. This feat, once thought impossible, provides scientists with a new way of looking at the small components of an atom’s nucleus and opens up a wealth of new information about the structure of an atom’s nucleus and the dynamics of the forces that affect neutrino interactions. The researchers solved the challenge of harnessing neutrinos in large numbers by using a neutrino detector containing a target of both hydrogen and carbon atoms, and over nine years of data collection at Fermilab’s accelerator. Read full article here