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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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2024: A Pivotal Year

Digital Tonto

GDP would fall by 14% and the ad market, which fueled the media business I ran, fell by 85%. The incredible cynicism and incompetence of Yanukovych’s rule stoked a desire to change direction. In 2009, it felt like the world was ending. I was still living in Ukraine then and the financial crisis hit there especially hard. We can too.

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Does the Stock Market Inhibit Innovation?

Destination Innovation

At the same time, he found no change in the scale of innovation, as measured by the number of patents. His conclusion is that these results suggest that the transition to public equity markets leads firms to reposition their R&D investments toward more conventional and safer projects. appeared first on Destination Innovation.

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Overcome the Customer’s Concern – Transfer the Risk

Destination Innovation

Once they gained this insight Hyundai decided on a daring marketing strategy. If you find that you cannot make your payment because of a covered life changing event, we’ll allow you to return your vehicle and walk away from your loan obligation”. Hyundai saw its share of the US automobile market rise from 3.0 percent to 4.6

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Why We Are Entering A New Innovation Era.

Paul Hobcraft

Increasingly we are seeing a growing dissatisfaction on the impact that innovation is having; in growth, in returns, in market and customer impact. Before I move forward I first wanted to look back and reflect on my path of growing realization that innovation was changing or needed to change. Posted on September 21, 2011.

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Software Isn’t Going to Eat the World

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 2011, technology pioneer Marc Andreessen declared that software is eating the world. With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services,” he wrote, “the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired — the dream of every cyber-visionary of […].

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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.