Technology is moving at an incredible and almost overwhelming pace. Technology has the potential to disrupt industries and create real threats to existing businesses. To avoid becoming obsolete and falling behind, entrepreneurs should have a strategy to aggressively embrace and utilize technology to their advantage.

The challenge is that there seems to be an unending stream of advice and recommendations for entrepreneurs to leverage these cutting-edge technologies, but very little explains specifically what entrepreneurs should be doing to implement these tools. Here are some practical ways that entrepreneurs can start embracing new technologies today.

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Part of the reason why many small business owners struggle to implement new technology is because they don't take the time to really understand what these technologies do, how they work and what trends are emerging in the technology industry. As a business leader, it's important to start regularly consuming information on emerging technologies. This can be as simple as committing to reading one article on technology each day or attending technology conferences that are focused on your industry.

If you aren't technologically savvy, that's perfectly fine. You can also ask someone on your team to take ownership of researching and recommending ways you can incorporate technology........

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