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Find Your Next

CEO Blog

They call it a genome that consists of 6 parts: 1 - Product or Service innovation. What are the trends and can you capitalize on them. Find Your Next is the how to guide for Blue Ocean. + Find what resonates. 2 - Customer impact. Does your community support it? 3 - Process Design. Align the how with the customer need.

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Toys ‘R’ Us Is Dead, but Physical Retail Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

The news is part of a larger trend of closings that some are calling the retail apocalypse. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne popularized the notion of a blue ocean strategy , which focuses on new markets, rather than fighting it out in “red oceans” filled with rabid competition. In their 2005 book, W.

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