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Rule of three: More Competition Leads to Less Competition
today’s selection is a (very old post) dated 2006, taken from this very blog … More Competition Leads to Less Competition (rule of three) … in which I was commenting on a book entitled “the rule of three”. I realise that this analysis is still – or maybe more than…
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Marketing & Innovation
Kwarter founders talking about entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley isn’t as easy as it may seem. On day 4 of our Blogger Bus Tour, we met with Carlos Diaz, the CEO and founder of Kwarter and Guillaume de Cugis, CEO and co-founder of Scoop’it, two French entrepreneurs who left their country in order to take their…
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Marketing & Innovation
Is gamification yet another buzzword or a real business driver?
Is gamification yet another buzzword or a real business opportunity? The MIT Stanford lab was founded 22 years ago. Visionary Marketing attended a meeting on Sept 19 on the Stanford campus on the subject of gamification. Vlab had gathered a unique bunch of top international experts from Silicon Valley in…
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Marketing & Innovation
Chinese Internet industry ready to grow beyond borders
China will be the World’s next Internet giant! Which Internet company generates the greatest number of micro transactions for virtual goods on a daily basis? If they were asked this question, most of our Western readers would undoubtedly mention Google, or Facebook and they would be wrong. In this piece,…
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Digital technology
Can IT improve management’s vision of the reality of business?
Can IT improve business vision? In response to our initial post, C.R. asked for more details on how IT distorts management’s vision of reality. Given the work and resources that have gone into enterprise applications over the last two decades, he asks, why doesn’t IT feed back a true image…
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digital Transformation
The power of remote collaboration and virtual team management
What is the power of remote collaboration and virtual team management? When thinking about factors that distinguish top-performing companies, the root of their success often can be traced to the human equation. But how many companies are able to tap more than a fraction of their workforce potential? How many…
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Marketing & Innovation
Sales 2.0: Taking business and salespeople to another level
Yes, the 2.0 hype is getting somehow out of hand and the moniker now comes to Sales … There’s been a lot of talks recently about Sales 2.0 and how companies can benefit from adopting Web 2.0 concepts and technologies in sales. The movement is underway to classify and clarify…
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