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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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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

He created a sense of urgency to undertake the changes ahead. David Gram, Head of Marketing at Lego’s Future Lab, said, “We only develop the few key features that are really needed. We throw it into the market and get feedback from consumers.”. As recently as 2011 90% of Lego’s users were boys.

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Bypass the Naysayers

Destination Innovation

The companies had enormous investment in vinyl disc factories and were unwilling to consider changing formats. If the main route to market for your great innovation is blocked by naysayers committed to current products and methods, you should ask – who benefits most from this? The answer was the music recording artists themselves.

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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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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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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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Our inabilities to adapt needs changing.

Paul Hobcraft

They become fixed, rigid and locked into their established ways, not adapting to the changes occurring around them. If we can’t adapt to changing times, we simply struggle to survive, that is the growing reality operating in today’s environment. We hear far too much about the need to transform and change.

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