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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. She has authored four books on the topic and numerous research papers.

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Fujifilm Succeeded Where Kodak Failed

Coaching Tip

Eastman Kodak was head and shoulders above all the others in the manufacture of photographic film when Fujifilm wasn't in 1963. From the 1980s into the 1990s, a persistent struggle with Kodak was waged for world market share. just as worldwide film sales almost immediately began to fall. The difference was not just in sales.

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Measuring the ROI of social media? There’s a laugh, and a joke.

Strategy Driven

Amazon now has total market dominance based on leadership, vision, and technological excellence. Start a YouTube channel by inviting your customers to film WHY they bought from you. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. If Bezos measured the ROI at Amazon in the first five years, he would have quit. Same with Apple.

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To Size Up Your Market in India, Look Twice

Harvard Business Review

With the backing of an investor, I acquired Amar Chitra Katha, the iconic Indian publisher of children's books and comics. Our goal was to rejuvenate a dying 40-year-old brand so it would appeal to a new generation of Indian children, many being raised on a diet of American cartoon shows and films.

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Salespeople have questions, Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Jeffrey, I am a marketing and sales rep for a company that sells emergency cleanup services. However, there are questions you can ask during the interview such as, “What are the most impactful books you’ve read?” ” This will give you a long list of books, or it will tell you the person doesn’t read books.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. Consider Fuji Photo Film.

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How Disney Found Its Way Back to Creative Success

Harvard Business Review

Disney’s existing contract to distribute Pixar films was slated to end in 2006 and Pixar had announced two years earlier it would not renew the arrangement.). Iger used the Pixar and Marvel purchases to convince George Lucas to sell them Lucasfilm (for about $4 billion) in 2012. It was a bold push towards the future.