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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked.

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business Review

In 1992, to free-up warehouse space, the UK team promised free airline tickets to customers who purchased more than £100 worth of its products. A nascent technology business might require an adaptive approach and a stable commodity business might require a classical, planning-based approach. A little later, the U.S.

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

Harvard Business Review

Often dismissed in the popular mindset as a tool for home-based “makers” of toys and trinkets, the technology is gaining momentum in large-scale industry. Impressive next-generation technologies are overcoming the last generation’s drawbacks while adding new capabilities.

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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. Improves productivity by improving morale.

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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. Time moved on, and during the nineties technology overran, and transformed the creative industry like it did most others. To resist the urge to self-censor. I’m glad I did. To sleep on it.

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The Big Picture of Business – Sayings, Meanings and Interpretations

Strategy Driven

Concepts which have changed names over the years… Peep show | film arcade | silent films | talkies | movies | cinema | video. Business Meanings Via the Perspectives of Words… To most people, the milkman brings bottles of milk products to your door. (At Technology is a tool of the trade, not an ideology or a mantra.

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

Harvard Business Review

The decision says little about the much bigger fight brewing over ownership of digital products — e-books, digital music files, and electronic copies of movies and software. What role will first sale play in a future where all information products, like software, are increasingly produced and distributed entirely through the cloud?