My experience of World Cups was that it really didn't matter too much at all what happened in the pool rounds because everything changed in the knockout stages.
And by everything I mean everything. Tactically, mentally, physically it was a different competition and that's why I feel there are only a few things that can be taken from what we saw in the earlier games.
From an All Blacks perspective - if they beat France tomorrow morning - then I think they have a couple of obvious areas of their game they will want to keep building.
The first and most obvious is the way they use their lineout ball. In their pool games, they were pretty much exclusively using clean ball to launch strike moves out wide. I would imagine that was deliberate and planned, that they wanted to get the ball swept away and use it to get their timing and cohesion right.