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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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Seven Companies That Failed to Innovate and What Happened to Them

IdeaScale

These seven companies lost out on entering major new markets, got acquired by competitors, or accumulated billions on bad bets, all by failing to innovate or grasp the value of their innovations. In 2002, Circuit City looked at the retail landscape, saw success in its future, and decided CarMax needed to be its own company. The lesson?

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How to Optimize Email Marketing for the New Normal of COVID-19

Brunner

billion email users daily (Statista, 2020), the changes in email user routines brought on by continued lockdowns are staggering. Reading emails outside pre-COVID times is another new normal for digital marketers. Prior to the pandemic, Tuesdays and Thursdays were the ideal days to send a marketing email.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

Magretta, 2002). WHO – Every business model serves a certain customer group (Chesbrough and Rosenbloom 2002; Hamel 2000). Magretta 2002). A business model innovation is defined as the conscious change of at least two dimensions of the introduced “Magic Triangle”. And what does the customer value?

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Does Merging Two Struggling Firms Create Value?

Michael Roberto

[link] Fortune's Chris Morris has reported that Neiman Marcus has rebuffed an acquisition offer from Saks, a competitor in the luxury retail market. Neiman, in 2002, filed for bankruptcy , but has emerged in a better position, with less debt. How much distraction will an integration effort create?

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Sustaining a Healthy World Through Growing Crop Health

Business and Tech

Extreme weather events, climate change, economic shifts, and some government policies have impacted crop health and yields across the globe, and with it, some of the tools that deliver that production most efficiently. ­­. How can we protect the health of our crops and find new solutions when the world is changing so quickly?

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Even in unfavorable situations overwhelming success and sustainable competitive advantage can be created by many small improvements, innovations and changes of the holistic approach with which a company aspires to reach its vision. Together the changes in different dimensions of a company’s business model can add up to massive improvements.