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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. Kodak's technology was also far ahead of Fujifilm's. It was true as well of brand recognition and financials. just as worldwide film sales almost immediately began to fall. What happened?

Film 70
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James Bond, Dunder Mifflin, and the Future of Product Placement

Harvard Business Review

This is a fundamental shift not only for the TV channels, which will have to completely rethink their revenue model, but also for brands, which find it incredibly, and increasingly, difficult to capture the attention of empowered, impatient consumers. And it’s particularly true when audiences like the film or show.

Bond 9
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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. .’ Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

Brand 50
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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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The Booming Business of Drones

Harvard Business Review

It is estimated that they currently have about seven thousand of them (and Congress asked for about $5 billion worth of more drones in 2012). Now, drones are moving from the battlefield to your neighborhood, and it's about to create a brand new industry right along with it.

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What We Know, Now, About the Internet’s Disruptive Power

Harvard Business Review

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. Supplier relationships, brand identity, process coordination, customer loyalty, and many switching costs were all forms of information.

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What Gamers Can Teach Us About Fraud

Harvard Business Review

Since 2010 , big consumer brands such as NBC, Walgreens and Southwest Airlines have all launched major projects that center around gaming. As of 2012, it had terminated more than 1.5 Like it or not, gamification is on the rise. Because games make previously dry subjects , such as corporate training, more fun and engaging.