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Trust the Customers, Not the Experts

Destination Innovation

When he returned to England in 2002, he endeavoured to raise funding. In 2002 he was successful in gaining a grant from the Prince’s Trust who also provided him with a mentor and business advice. Fellow dragon Deborah Meadon, chief of a holiday business, firmly stated that there was no market for the ride-on suitcase.

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

Brunner

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. In the last 12 months, 78% of marketers have seen an increase in email engagement (Not Another State of Marketing, 2020).

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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). Moreover, emerging technologies or trends may change the market environment - a company may be forced to act reactively or may want to act proactively by adapting the existing business model.

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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.

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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.

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Sustaining a Healthy World Through Growing Crop Health

Business and Tech

Furthermore, innovations such as drought-tolerant corn have been brought to the market thanks to agricultural research. According to the USDA Economic Research Service, public agricultural research and development has declined by about a third between 2002 and 2019, even though there is an average of $20 of benefits to the U.S.

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