November 2012
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Innovation in today's world
As an admirer of Clayton M. Christensen’s work, I strongly believe in the importance of innovation in helping companies maintain their competitive advantage. And although most executives claim innovation is one of their top three priorities (McKinsey Quaterly), the amount of investment in R&D does not reflect that. In an October 2007 article published on McKinsey Quaterly, 36% of top...
October 2012
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From Fast Fashion to Fab Flatware, Zara Launches...
gigidowns:
In just two weeks, the Spanish highstreet retailer will be launching an e-commerce-only homewares line. While physical stores are in the global plans, U.S. shoppers will be able to shop Zara Home for the latest interior looks, for less.
With more women attending and graduating college, entering the workforce at management-levels, and choosing to live alone, whether they’re...
August 2012
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“If it has a UPC code, Amazon will beat you”
– E-commerce startups - Chris Dixon (via fred-wilson)
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“Entrepreneurs often underestimate how long it will take them to produce...”
– The Planning Fallacy and the Innovator’s Dilemma - Scott Anthony - Harvard Business Review (via wreckandsalvage)
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“Entrepreneurs often underestimate how long it will take them to produce...”
– The Planning Fallacy and the Innovator’s Dilemma - Scott Anthony - Harvard Business Review (via wreckandsalvage)
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June 2012
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where digital media advertising will go and when
patriciahandschiegel:
One of the interesting elements of Condiment is thinking out its ad model.
Advertising is a revenue model that has historically only been limited to information delivery platform business. Communications platform business monetizes with other models.
Banner ads were interesting but not exactly necessary in the digital media environment. They could exist (and turned out...
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Fluid Transaction Models - Gerd Leonhard's Future... →
futuresagency:
In Gerd Leonhard’s future of business keynote, the author discusses the new paradigm that will dominate the future of business, media and communications transactions. He defines past models as ones defined by friction, and those of the future, defined by fluidity. In today’s digitally dominated markets, the movement and sharing of information is fluid for consumers; it is defined...
How to stick to your business goals when the going...
dm2studios:
via graphicdesignblender.com Equally as important as writing goals is sticking to them. Making sure you don’t cut corners, shred them when times are tough, or scribble them out and replace them with easier goals can be a real challenge in self-control. So when you’re starting to feel lazy and those goals seem more like dreams, follow these tips to get you back on track!
Strategy, Context, and the Decline of Sony -... →
unboundedition:
The strategy address recently delivered by the corporation’s new CEO, Kazuo Hirai, earned press coverage that verged on mocking, with The Wall Street Journal noting that the brand’s “once-sterling cachet has deteriorated,” and The New York Times going further, placing Sony in “a fight for its life,” and accusing it of “an astonishing lack of ideas.” Both observations are correct,...
Where customer collaboration and employee... →
ibmsocialbiz:
As easy as it is for information to be taken from the enterprise and shared externally, it should be just as easy (and seamless) to take information externally and share it within the enterprise.
For example, a customer has an issue that needs to be resolved, this issue is crowd-sourced internally to find the best solution instead of just being routed to one person who may or may...
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INSIGHT: Kroger’s Customer 1st strategy reaps...
planetretail:
US-based Kroger has reported that total sales in the first quarter ended 19 May 2012 increased 5.8% to USD29.1 billion compared with USD27.5 billion for the same period last year. Comparable-store sales excluding fuel grew 4.2% over the prior year period, marking 34 consecutive quarters of positive same-store growth for Kroger. Planet Retail looks at the reasons for the store...
Social Media: 5 Questions to Ask Before You Launch... →
destx:
If you are serious about using social media as a weapon in your marketing arsenal, then you need to come up with answers to the following five questions:
Digital Subscription Prices Visualized (aka The... →
understatementblog:
Here are the annual prices of a variety of services, all of which allow users to access the service from the web and across multiple devices with a single unified subscription. See if you can pick out which one is the outlier:
As Frédéric Filloux and others have pointed out, The New York…
4 Tips for Inspiring Passion in Employees
brandsprout:
See on Scoop.it - Entrepreneurs Marketing Scoop Passion is easy for an entrepreneur, but keeping that spark alive as a company grows is another story. Here are four tips for keeping the fire burning. See on inc.com
“Fall in love, certainly. But a wonderful product or service won’t make up for...”
– The Top 10 Rookie Mistakes for Entrepreneurs - NYTimes.com (via amexopenforum)
Paul Romer's radical idea: Charter cities →
USB Safety Pin Flash Drive
nylonguysmagazine:
If you fancy yourself a secret spy of some sort (or you’re just looking for a cool way to carry around your USB drives) then check out this safety pin device.
Ford Combats 'Brand Blindness' in Web Video Spots
digitalnerdisms:
When your brand can pitch a spot without revealing its name and can steal the top spot of the most watched commercial on the Web, you know you’ve made it.
Read the rest: Ford Combats ‘Brand Blindness’ in Web Video Spots
“What we planned to build was a global multichannel lifestyle brand embraced by...”
– How Social Media Helped Kate Spade Become a Global Brand
engagement over sales (via bizwords)
5 Ways Process Is Killing Your Productivity →
hashdoc:
5 Ways Process Is Killing Your Productivity | Fast Company Processes are supposed to help organizations scale up, improve efficiency for new hires and existing employees, and so on—but they can quickly get out of control.
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SocialFlow Lets Marketers Double-Down On Popular...
digitalnerdisms:
SocialFlow is a new platform that offers algorithms in helping brands manage their messaging on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. It determines when a company should send a certain message out, based on its content, and automatically Tweets it out or updates the company’s Facebook page, all for $99 a month.
Read more: SocialFlow Lets Marketers Double-Down On Popular...
Watchibmsocialbiz:
Catch the replay of today’s live interactive discussion on the challenges, limits and new frontiers of understanding customer behavior — sentiment analytics, trend spotting and digital footprints.
Date/Time: Thursday, May 3 from 12-1pm EST
Where:www.livestream.com/newintelligence
Featured vPanelists:
Christopher Frank, VP Global MarketPlace Insights at American Express and...
INSIGHT: Sainsbury's tops the 'big four' in 2011
planetretail:
Sainsbury’s has reported that its sales including VAT for the full year ended 17 March 2012 rose 6.8% to GBP24.5 billion (USD38.2 billion) compared to GBP22.9 billion (USD35.8 billion) in the same period last year. Like-for-like sales with VAT but excluding fuel rose 2.1%. Planet Retail identifies where Sainsbury’s got it right to become the fastest-growing of the ‘big four’ UK...
Foursquare doesn't want to be another popular—but... →
nasdaq:
Foursquare has a new monetization scheme: promotions that merchants can buy and that can then be redeemed by users once they check in. Also in the works for the company? Data scientists who will, as CEO Dennis Crowley says, “make sense of the 2 billion check-ins.” Crowley calls the potential to interpret users’ check-ins Foursquare’s “special sauce.” Click through for the full WSJ...
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Developing Countries Are Revolutionizing Mobile... →
destx:
On February 16, 2012, Barclays of U.K. launched Pingit, a service that lets people send and receive money using a smartphone.
But this isn’t the first big innovation in mobile banking. These innovations are already happening in developing countries.
Poor countries are jumping ahead of rich ones by building a 21st century infrastructure (because they have little legacy infrastructure to...
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Innovation is a process by Jim Stikeleather for ... →
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The Biggest Time Savers for Your Small Business
dm2studios:
via openforum.com Everyone wants to accomplish more in less time, and not many of us will truly master time management. Some people spend too much time on certain tasks, others procrastinate and some waffle. These personal efficiency idiosyncrasies are likely here to stay, but what we can change is some of the big time sinks that make a huge difference in how much we and our small...
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Global consumer products company uses open...
ibmsocialbiz:
From a Q and A with Gail Martino, manager of emerging and disruptive innovation at Unilever’s open innovation group. Her group recently launched an open innovation platform, which has received more than 300 submissions since its launch in late March from a diverse range of suppliers (new and existing), businesses and individuals.
Q. The majority of “challenges and wants” posted...
Facebook Begins Rolling Out News Feed "Offers" for... →
sharonhayesdotcom:
When Mark Zuckerberg was involved with first launching the now giant entity that is Facebook, he had a smaller vision of how it could be used. Students would be able to connect with other students locally through his network and share ideas, friendships, and according to the movie The Social Network maybe gain a little fame for the little guy. Now Facebook is on pace to be one...
The big shift: cloud, connectivity and innovation →
ibmsocialbiz:
JP Rangaswami, blogging as “confused of calcutta,” writes about the “big shift” to social enterprise:
The concept of the Social Enterprise is underpinned by the cloud: a public digital infrastructure based on open standards, scalable and elastic. In effect, it represents the Foundation “wave” of the Big Shift.
The core of the Social Enterprise is connectivity, bringing about...
“We are happy to anounce the release of a special report that Stowe Boyd has...”
– MediaFuturist: Special Report with Stowe Boyd: Social TV and The Second Scree. Plus: Media Futures Collaboration with Stowe (via futuresagency)
What People Hate Most About Waiting in Line →
hashdoc:
Queueing theory: What people hate most about waiting in line. - Slate Magazine Let’s say you and your roommate have a little side business baking rhubarb pies at home and selling them on a street corner. Folks love pie, and you’re having trouble keeping up with demand. But you can only invest so much money in the business. Where should you put your…
How businesses can do more with less
dm2studios:
via holykaw.alltop.com Despite the costs associated with starting a business continuing to drop, spending money wisely remains an important strategy for companies looking to maximize the stretch of their dollars. PSFK talked with Treehugger and LifeEdited founder Graham Hill to get his advice on operating for less without sacrificing productivity or growth.
Can you systematize what starts organically?
jasonshah:
The other day, I noticed a coworker praising another coworker. It was genuine. It seemed to make an impact on the coworker receiving praise. He felt acknowledged, and often goes unrecognized unfortunately.
It got me thinking: wouldn’t it be great if this sort of thing happened all the time?
And the same way that virality in a product makes a consumer application get adopted...
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Made in NY: InVision, a NYC tech startup that... →
madeinny:
InVision, a NYC tech startup that creates prototyping platforms for web and mobile app designers, is the latest tech company to receive seed funding from the NYC Entrepreneurial Fund.
The Daily News reports:
“The lucky startup was co-founded by Clark Valberg, 31, and Ben…
