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Walmart Won’t Stay on Top If Its Strategy Is “Copy Amazon”

Harvard Business Review

” In Amazon’s growing brick-and-mortar bookstores, Prime members can buy books for discounted prices, while others have to pay the cover price. In comparison, Walmart.com sells “only” 15 million items — and just 2 million of them are available for the free two-day shipping.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

Premium pricing for preferred goods/services. Faster innovation. This is not something that can be conducted alone by internal human resources departments. It will provide comparisons between the realities and perceptions that are held. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Higher sales.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. The trick for entrepreneurs and digital innovators, then, is to use a bricolage strategy to obtain modern digital infrastructure and tools to transform existing businesses or conceive and build new ones.