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Corporate Writing Doesn’t Have to Sound Like It’s Written by Committee

Harvard Business Review

.” – Marketing staff, technology/telecom company. ” – Marketing manager, technology/telecom company. ” – Marketing manager, technology/telecom company. ” – Marketing supervisor, advertising/marketing agency. There’s clearly a problem here.

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Deciding to Fix or Kill a Problem Product

Harvard Business Review

Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. Instead of selling the concept of the “connected home,” Nest focused on specific problems their customers wanted to solve in addition to good technology. The result: Market success for the product and the company was purchased by Google for $3.2 Fix or kill?