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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. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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The New Economic Revolution

Strategy Driven

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 Bill Clerico is CEO and co-founder of WePay , where he drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth. million employees—nearly half of those 1.5 About the Author.

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Innovation Isn't Tied to Size, but to Operating Rules

Harvard Business Review

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. A look at any performance measure shows that innovation can come from either size, and that both arguments are oversimplifications. And the CEO sees enabling a culture of collaborative innovation as key.

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. China, too, needs more technological innovation. This is attributable to China’s national technology strategy of “market access in exchange for technology.”

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Research: We Take More Risks When We Compete Against Rivals

Harvard Business Review

” We then collected nine years of play-by-play data (20022010), totaling almost half a million unique plays. In organizations and industries in which experimentation, innovation, bold strategic moves, and thinking outside the box are valued (e.g.,

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Finally, A Majority of Executives Embrace Experimentation

Harvard Business Review

While he was at Amazon from 1997-2002, Greg Linden prototyped a system for making personal recommendations for other products to customers as they checked out. Problem was, a marketing Senior Vice President thought these would distract customers from completing their purchase and didn't think Linden had proof it would work.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. But for the most part, the general strategy of the rich countries was to reject the NIEO broadly.