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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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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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Best Strategy Blog in 2015

Norbert Bol

The best read strategy blog in 2015 was the blog from 1 February 2015 about “ Sustainability driving innovation “ I personally like this blog the most as well, as it supports the evidence that sustainability strategies stimulate innovation, beacuse sustainability needs new knowledge and capabilities. Conclusion.

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2015 Roundup for Eddielogic.com and Themanager.org

Eddielogic

Besides that, some of my current writings have become popular too: Popular articles at Eddielogic.com in 2015. which is a 2015 update of an older post from 2012. A more topical post that is very popular is my critique of the strategy that Deutsche Bank announced in April 2015. Popular articles at Themanager.org in 2015.

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When capitalism works, everybody wins

Christensen Institute

In 2015, the private equity firm purchased CHI Overhead Doors, a garage door manufacturing company, for around $600 million. Josh Ryan, an assembly-line supervisor at CHI put it this way , “It is life-altering, I can’t explain how much it’s going to change—not just people’s lives here—it’s going to change this entire community.”

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Innovators in FMCG love Direct to Consumer

Destination Innovation

In 2010 the Gillette brand which is owned by Proctor and Gamble held 70% of the US market for razors. Its market share has now slid to around 50%. Established brands have long held the advantage in the market for fast moving consumer goods (FMCG). All that has changed with the internet and the DTC business model.