Innovation

The Hunt for Opportunities
Ours is an unpredictable world.

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Dispensing Strategies: July/August 2009
If you’ve been dismissing social networking tools like Twitter, Facebook and blogs as fringe strategies used only by the young consumer, think again. Web 2.0 is a term used to describe the Internet’s evolution from “data source” to “party host.”

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Pizza vending machine coming to Italy

June 3, 2009 - Pizza vending machine. Video by Reuters

June 3, 2009 - In a few weeks, an Italian company will present its re-imagining of the vending machine. Rather than serving up coffee, chips or chocolate bars, the new gizmo will produce pizza—ready to eat after about three minutes of infrared cooking.

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Dispensing Strategies: May June 2009
A few years ago, The Learning Channel launched a show titled “Honey I’m Killing the Kids.” This family weight-loss makeover show utilized a series of computer-generated fast-forwarded photos to simulate how obese children might look at age 40 if they stayed on the fast track to obesity.

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Two Perspectives
Winning Sales In A Losing Economy. Finding The Upside In The Economic Downturn

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From the editor: May June 2009
Some time ago … and I really do mean some time … there was a governing body across the great Atlantic that decided things were not what they should be in the new world, so they levied a tax.

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The Rationale of Rationalization
The grocery industry often uses the term “category management” to reference the process of looking at their entire product portfolio in groups of products that make sense from a consumer’s point of view.

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Win The Battle, Lose The War
If you, someone in the company, or a defective product, caused the problem, it was your fault

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