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Businesspeople everywhere are increasingly realizing that innovation is the key to continued success. Financial restructuring has run its course. Applying “me too” information technology to conventional problems is a requirement merely to stay in the game. Operational excellence, while always important, is now delivering ever-diminishing returns as we address smaller and smaller opportunities. |
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Every individual has a set of unique characteristics that can be used to confirm his identity. Fingerprints, the pattern of the iris, and DNA can all be captured, filed, and then compared at a later date. |
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Regardless of whether we’re talking about open or closed innovation, building open source or proprietary systems, or discussing operating under a product-centered business model, a customer-centered model, or a co-creation model, companies can’t effectively compete unless they can locate and organize the available expertise. But, expertise can be surprisingly difficult to find, even in businesses that have spent millions to attract and retain world-class experts. The problem isn’t that the company doesn’t have the expertise; it’s that no one knows who has it or how to find it. |
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Influence, New and E |
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The Lean, Mean World |
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Wal-Mart’s business model is deceptively simple: It sells a wide variety of products at the lowest price in any market it enters. It can sell at the lowest price because it relentlessly drives down its costs via scale-related economies. |
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