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Why User Experience Always Has to Come First

Harvard Business Review

That’s why digital services in general, and mobile advertising in particular, make superior templates for evaluating business model design. For example, Facebook makes great money from mobile advertisers, but it’s now refusing to subsidize technical inefficiencies that undermine overall UX.

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How is Big Data Transforming Your 80/20 Analytics?

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, even organizations where top management keeps their eyes glued to KPI-driven dashboards have trouble agreeing on what their Top Ten Most Important Customer/Client 80/20 analytics should be. For example, brand managers and advertising agencies alike increasingly make sentiment analysis part of how they assess public perceptions.

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8 Reasons Companies Don’t Capture More Value

Harvard Business Review

Their innovation efforts tend to be focused wholly on the creation of new value; meanwhile, the question of how exactly they will be compensated for it usually goes unexamined. Price leadership: A no-frills airline constantly advertises the lowest fares on any route served. Why is it that?

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The Social Cost of Bad Online Marketing

Harvard Business Review

This is the medium that has already enabled the rapid dissemination of innovative economic development models, sustainable energy innovations and grassroots mobilization strategies, which were once front-and-centre on the social web, but are increasingly shoved to the margins. How can we reclaim the Internet from this dreck?

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