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Digital innovation strategy: A framework for diagnosing and improving digital product and service innovation

Executive Summary Given the increasing presence of digital technology in businesses, managers need to learn and apply new tools to support the firms in managing the digital innovation processes. In this paper, the authors built one of those tools to assess the state of digital innovation management and to support
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The Importance of Understanding Emoji

Executive Summary Given the rise of digital communication via text, emoji have become key to communicate emotions. The word emoji comes from the Japanese language: 絵 (e ≅ picture) 文 (mo ≅ writing) 字 (ji ≅ character); emoji represent actual icons that appear on the keyboard or that are converted from emoticons such
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Business Model: What it is and What it is not

Executive Summary In my last paper How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions? we looked at how VCs do investments selection and what they think are the main drivers of value creation. I got roasted a bit on Hacker News because the survey did not include the notion of traction, revenue
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How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

Executive Summary Even though only 0.25% of companies receive venture financing, venture capital is an important source of financing that result in an outsized impact on the economy. Some studies estimate that 50% of U.S. IPOs are VC-backed and that these companies account for 20% of the U.
Strategy 3 min read Free

Do Great Companies Stay Great ?

Executive Summary The Credit Suisse research team is one of my favourites as they always publish interesting papers. In this paper, the authors wanted to look at the stickiness of corporate profitability. They found that good companies tend to remain good companies, poor companies tend to remain mediocre. They also
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Learning from Family-Controlled Businesses

Executive Summary I was doing some research for work and I stumbled upon this article that we covered during one of my strategic management classes at McGill taught by Prof. Gregory Vit. Prof. Vit main research interests, and areas of expertise, is Contrarian and Conformist Strategy, so it is expected
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Schumpeterian Profits and the Alchemist Fallacy

Executive Summary We live in an era of rapid technological changes, which some people call the “new economy.” The new economy is the result of the transition from a manufacturing-based economy to an economy where companies that are on the cutting edge of technology are the driving force of economic
Operations 4 min read Free

When Sales and Marketing Align: Impact on Performance

Executive Summary In this paper, the authors explore the impacts on performance from sales and marketing being aligned. One obvious fact is that without sales and marketing working to produce revenue, the business ceases to exist. Yet, conflicts between the two functions are to be expected given that salespeople wan
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