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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

By November, 2004 the stock has risen to $90. Nor did he focus on how to drive more subscriptions, or sell more advertising to traditional customers. In a declining newspaper market The Washington Post is growing because it is using trends to transform itself into a company readers (and advertisers) value. But he did not.

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

The BMI Lab Blog

At the same time, in 2003-2004, Alibaba invested USD 52 million to enter the C2C market in China through its service, Taobao.com. A year later, in 2004, it occupied over 50% of the market, displacing eBay to the second position. In 2010 Taobao had close to 80% of the C2C market in China, entirely displacing eBay.

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The Power of a Good Strategy

Leanstack

When Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in 2004, he wasn’t the first to build a social networking platform. Yet, he still managed to build the largest social networking platform on the planet. How did Facebook manage to win against bigger and better-funded competitors who had a huge head-start over them?

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

Jobs began by changing the company’s image and ran his “Think Different” advertising campaign, which glorified individuality. In 2004, CEO Knudstrop embarked on a back-to-the-basics journey, and went from a loss of $292 million that year to a profit of $117 million in 2005. Then, Microsoft invested $150 million (!) and Apple came back.

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Emotional Design with A.C.T. - Part 1

Boxes and Arrows

In order for users to accomplish their tasks and attain Flow, we need to capture and hold their attention by managing the design of their emotional experiences. Cognitive and Affective Responses to Advertising (69-89). Flow is a highly engaging experience, and strong emotional engagement demands and narrows the user’s attention.

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Unit Economics: How to Calculate CAC & LTV – It Depends – Podcast Transcript

IM Insights

Welcome to the innovation metrics podcast , where we bring you the latest on innovation management. We provide insights on how to measure innovation , innovation , accounting , and managing the uncertain process of developing new , sustainable , and profitable business models. It was a gig , a free gig , 2004 was a big deal.

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