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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice.

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The New Economic Revolution

Strategy Driven

From internet commerce technology has sprung forth the Bottom-Up Economic Revolution. Enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over 1 million employees between 2002 and 2012 while enterprises with less than 25 people gained over a 1.5 Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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The Increase in U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Is Nothing to Cheer About

Harvard Business Review

After 2002, the decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs continued at a slower rate into 2007, with another million or so jobs lost. Then came the 2007 recession and worldwide financial and economic crisis. From 2001 to 2010, some 20 million service jobs that could have been expected to materialize based on historical rates did not.

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

In 2000, labor-intensive products constituted 37% of all Chinese exports; by 2010, this fell to 14%. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5% imported 560% more technologically-advanced products from China than it exported to that country. billion in 2010. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S.

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Failing Toward Success at Google

Harvard Business Review

Google Wave (May 2009 to August 2010). Google SearchWiki (November 2008 to March 2010). This hugely expensive venture (which I actually mention in the article) attempted to import Google's technology to the world of radio advertising and make money the same way the company does on the Internet. It failed to revolutionize much.

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How to (Gradually) Become a Different Company

Harvard Business Review

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

The number of internet users in China stood at roughly 5 million in 1999 but grew to 40 million in 2002, by which time it was clear that Yahoo was not getting the traction that local Chinese internet companies were seeing. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. A 2010 Harvard Business School case by Julie M.