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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

The second was at what was the fourth KFC franchise to open in the United States. There became too many competitors, too much franchising, too much hype and just as many who exited the industry as quickly as they entered it. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Fast forward 20 years to 1979.

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The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business Review

” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. When the pseudonymous Robert Galbraith published A Cuckoo’s Calling in 2013, the novel sold about 1,500 copies in the first month. Rowling, sales rose to over one million.

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