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Here is a Method That is Helping Niche Businesses to Boost Sales

by Donald McMichael
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I have the plea­sure of teach­ing entre­pre­neur­ship at FIT (Fash­ion Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy) in NYC. Being a New York City based busi­ness school cloaked as a design/art insti­tute pro­vides fer­tile ground for dis­ci­pline mash-ups.  The attached arti­cle from FT.com details the rise of retail mash-up, Antwerp’s con­cept stores which dis­play and sell every­thing from clothing […]

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #29

by Donald McMichael
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photo via Don­ald McMichael  While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encour­age you check them out if they sound inter­est­ing.  Design Think­ing Is A Failed Exper­i­ment. So What’s Next? In this blog post Bruce Nuss­baum, on of the biggest advo­ca­tors of Design Think­ing via his Busi­ness Week columns, has deter­mined that […]

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Do You Know What Your Business Model Is?

by Donald McMichael

  Did you real­ize that 2/3 of all com­pa­nies have not artic­u­lated their busi­ness model. This is an amaz­ing stat from Charles Baden-Fuller. The rea­son it is so high isn’t that they don’t have it is that they just don’t think about it. And that logic chain then goes that if one doesn’t  think about, […]

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Strategic Value: What Do You Bring To The Table?

by Donald McMichael
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A few months ago I started using the tagline ‘solves the tough[est] prob­lems’. The use of a brand­ing tagline is not the story. Com­pa­nies have been at this for cen­turies and peo­ple have earned them since the begin­ning of time… think John the Great. What inter­ested me dur­ing the devel­op­ment  and test­ing process was how […]

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Design…Left Brain Style

by Donald McMichael
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Can you mea­sure the value of a busi­ness’ design com­pe­tency? Dr. Peter Zec and Burkhard Jacob believe that one can. They pro­vide a unique per­spec­tive for look­ing at design and busi­ness. It’s a good thing too. With the increas­ing neces­sity to con­tin­u­ously inno­vate busi­ness leader need to arm them­selves with tools and processes that allow […]

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