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

October 5, 2011

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,

5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #29

April 9, 2011

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

Do You Know What Your Business Model Is?

September 10, 2010

  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

Strategic Value: What Do You Bring To The Table?

May 17, 2010

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

Design…Left Brain Style

March 11, 2010

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

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