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Will We Get a Second-Hand Market for Digital Goods?

Harvard Business Review

For the past decade, emerging digital markets have operated under the assumption that, despite the obvious similarity between a music CD and an MP3 downloaded from iTunes, digital goods are different. In brief, resale markets are dangerous, especially for information goods.

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Case Study: Should You Listen to the Customer?

Harvard Business Review

Natalia Georgio knocked on the door of her new marketing director's office. She'd hired Elizabeth, another former dancer, because of her decades of marketing experience, most recently at Violet, a fast-growing woman's athletic clothing company. Then, what you do here isn't really marketing," Elizabeth said cautiously. "It

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. 5) Operational Transparency -.

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The Time to Think About the 3D-Printed Future Is Now

Harvard Business Review

The inventors, who publicly announced this new approach in March, say they were inspired by the film “Terminator 2” – specifically the scene where a robot reshapes itself after having melted into a puddle. The market is taking these claims seriously, as well. Another promising development is multi-jet fusion.

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The Big Picture of Business – Sayings, Meanings and Interpretations

Strategy Driven

Welcome to the paradigms that many of us have operated under for some time. Concepts which have changed names over the years… Peep show | film arcade | silent films | talkies | movies | cinema | video. Marketing can be either inward or outward. For some, these are stark new approaches. Toilet paper. Bathroom tissue.

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Linds Redding’s Short Lesson in Perspective

In the CEO Afterlife

As an ex-ad man and a lifelong aficionado of great creative, whether it is art or copy, I could not resist the urge to check it out. To resist the urge to self-censor. Last week, Mathew Creamer of Advertising Age said Linds Redding’s ‘Short Lesson in Perspective’ was the best piece of advertising writing you’ll ever read.

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Don't Let the Minimum Win Over the Viable

Harvard Business Review

The Lean Startup has crystallized many of the ideas fundamental to successful innovation and provided companies with additional ways to understand and make room for rapid iteration, agile development, and in-market testing of new ideas. Meanwhile, Square resisted adding more than the minimal features, keeping the user experience simple.

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