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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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Celebrating Diversity

Marshall Goldsmith

People worldwide are buying the same global brands that are globally advertised, marketed, and distributed. Long-term value is the result of vision, creativity, innovation, and hard work. The increase in global communication, trade, technology, and culture will continue. They tend to have the same clothing, music, and even food.

Diversity 101
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James Bond, Dunder Mifflin, and the Future of Product Placement

Harvard Business Review

Trying to explain to my children that there are advertising breaks so people can sell them things was a deflating experience. While many have theorized about the decline of interruption-based advertising, I realized as I looked into my children’s faces that the end may be sooner than advertisers realize.

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The Future of Business Is Social: Seven Principles That Lead to.

Strategy Driven

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Today, customers want to rely on what other diners have to say to help make decisions about where they should eat next, rather than relying on traditional restaurant advertising.

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To Grow a Digital Business, Learn from the Startup Community

Harvard Business Review

By second phase, I mean the creation of entirely new offerings that are possible only because of digital technology. As with other newspapers, its traditional sources of revenue were being eroded and it was on the lookout for new ways of attracting readers and advertisers to its web site.

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business Review

Grab, which launched its service in 2012 with 40 drivers in Malaysia, came late to the ride-hailing game, only after Uber had established a formidable position in the United States. Transportation, aviation, health care, and energy all require physical delivery, whereas media, music, and advertisement do not.

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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

How Google innovates. Bala Iyer and Tom Davenport attempted to “reverse engineer” Google’s innovation machine in 2008. The first step to innovating like Google, they argue, is patience. Another look at part of Google’s innovation strategy comes from a 2013 piece on DARPA , the government research agency.

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