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How the Rapid Growth of Ecommerce Is Driving Changes in Logistics and Transportation Management

Strategy Driven

But, the desire for instant gratification is also forcing logistics and transportation businesses to provide delivery options that are faster, more cost-effective, and convenient as well as offer increased flexibility to the customer. The proximity to urban areas allows parcels to get delivered faster, which is a key differentiator.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base. Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. Our Freedom.

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. link] mikemyatt A great motto Anna, and sound perspectives as well. Thanks for commenting. link] landoncreasy Hi Mike, Great post. Our Freedom. mikemyatt: The rigidity of a closed mind is the first s.

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Economies of Unscale: Why Business Has Never Been Easier for the Little Guy

Harvard Business Review

A series of breakthrough technologies and new business models are destroying the old rule that bigger is better. FedEx offered overnight delivery services in the 1970s, letting anyone ship a product anywhere, fast, at a modest cost. Innovation Technology' But the tide is about to turn. Unscaling has emerged over decades.

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Doing Good Via Spam Protection: The Art of Leverage | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

The story is about how NY Times is using CAPTCHA technology to fix errors that crop up in their effort to digitize old issues. You are breaking down the problem (OCR errors) into small pieces and parceling them out to individual websites. I put together a schematic to explain what they are doing. Simply brilliant.

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Make the Case for Better Quality Data

Harvard Business Review

"It costs ten times as much to complete a unit of simple work when the data are flawed in any way as it does when they're perfect.". Given the growing importance of data to every aspect of their business, they know they must develop an understanding of the costs of poor data quality, shortcomings in the methodology notwithstanding.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy.