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Eight Communication Traps That Foil Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The complexity and uncertainty of forging new ground makes it easy to get lost. This hand-off is a time of high risk and often fails because general management, human resources, marketing, communications, and sales teams haven't been informed along the way. Use skits, storyboards, and films to develop customer personas and scenarios.

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Kodak accepted the pain of shuttering plants and laying off tens of thousands of film-factory workers. It dominated the ultra-profitable, digital-photo-kiosk market, even pushing archrival Fuji out of Walgreens’s retail-pharmacy juggernaut. 4 in the inkjet-printer market, where it joined the likes of HP, Lexmark, and Canon.