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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

On May 1, 2003, KMart begins trading again. The traditional Sears market was niched up across big box retailers like Best Buy, clothiers like Kohls, tool stores like Home Depot, parts retailers like AutoZone, and soft goods stores like Bed, Bath & Beyond. Leaving Sears’ market “hollowed out.”

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Business model creation and innovation in China: not just copycats.

The BMI Lab Blog

“Lean value” focus: This approach is supported by the nature of the market. It is full of entrepreneurs, customers, markets and capital that happen at the same time. So, probably dozens of entrepreneurs are working on the same idea at the same time; the market will falsify most wrong assumptions quickly.

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Emotional Design with A.C.T. – Part 2

Boxes and Arrows

3 Our emotional responses to the marketing, purchase, and use of products combine over time to create emotional experiences, which further combine to create emotional relationships. Even the marketing of the page–Why “Go” Beyond Talk?–could Designing relationships. Passion (Desirable) + Commitment (Useful) = Illusory love.

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