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Best Practices are Stupid

Stephen Shapiro

On April 20, 2010, the environment was dealt a horrific blow. For a company that stood to lose billions of dollars in cleanup costs, relief payouts, and lost sales due to bad publicity, this approach might indeed have been a good strategy. Although the principles remain the same, some aspects have evolved since then. Introduction.

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Co-creating for marketing success: Why customers are the new marketing agency

InnovationTraining.org

And this could be due to one very large presence that stands between you: your agency. You’ll probably remember Steve Jobs releasing the first ever iPad back in 2010. Marketing and advertising agencies have long been the purveyor of ideas. And suddenly, despite all the above, it doesn’t quite land the way you expected it to.

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Is the iPad mobile?

Boxes and Arrows

I should have remembered where I was supposed to get off, but, like everyone else, I rely on technology to offload cognitive processes when I should be using my brain. Mark Zuckerburg famously stated that the iPad isn’t mobile (Parr, 2010). In addition, Windows is advertising a physical keyboard attachment. Iterate Often.

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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

On hopes that a recovering economy will raise all boats, the stock recovers over the next 18 months to $113 by April, 2010. As malls came along, Sears was again a pioneer “anchoring” many malls and obtaining lower cost space due to the company’s ability to draw in customers for other retailers. in 18 months.

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

The BMI Lab Blog

We can summarize their business approach in the following points: The Chinese customers are avid buyers of technology. In 2010 Taobao had close to 80% of the C2C market in China, entirely displacing eBay. eHi added to the mix some telematic technology, with the goal to track the performance and use of its cars.

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Brands In Memoriam 2012

CorporateIntel

Bought in 2010 from The Washington Post by audio magnate Sid Harman for $1 and assumption of the losses, ostensibly for sentimental reasons, it was then merged via IAC with The Daily Beast and put under the direction of star editor Tina Brown (there’s a cost saving measure, huh?).

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New Energy for Climate Innovation

Outside Innovation

The goal of the first coalition is for national and state governments to double their investments in clean energy R&D; the second one is a coalition of 28 billionaires who have agreed to invest in commercial companies whose technologies will deliver near zero emission energy breakthroughs. Joe Romm, who once ran the US Dept.