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Consultant Ninja: How not to do a consulting case study.

Consultant Ninja

Wednesday, January 21, 2009. How not to do a consulting case study. January 21, 2009 at 2:31 AM. Study Management. October 10, 2009 at 7:40 AM. Wednesday, January 21, 2009. Productivity. (6). Im trying not to pick on Kevin Gao of Management Consulted. Good written article. Post a Comment.

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A Case Study of Crowdsourcing Gone Wrong

Harvard Business

For those who believe in the promise of open innovation, the 2009 startup Quirky was an exceptionally exciting company. Within a few years, the company built a community of over a million members, commercialized over 100 products, and raised over $180 million in venture capital funding.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business

For startups, 2009 was a good year. Key Resources are the assets that are required to deliver the CVP to the customer at a profit, meaning the people, technology, products, facilities, equipment, channels, and brand. Forbes hailed it as a veritable case study “on how digital transformation leads to business value.”

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The Right Way to Spend Your Innovation Budget

Harvard Business

Most innovation investments, such as product improvement, technological innovation, and research and development (R&D) traditionally aim at strengthening the innovation capacity of the organization. Nokia launched the OVI Store globally in May 2009. Together, these companies have spent billions on innovation.

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A Crisis Management Success Story: AppFirst

Melissa Agnes

We had been experimenting with different levels of product offerings and pricing models, and worked through an exhaustive process to get everything right. I learned firsthand how they used our product, what they’d like to see, and what they’d be willing to pay for – invaluable information to receive. Case Studies'

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How WD-40 Created a Learning-Obsessed Company Culture

Harvard Business

The new CEO quickly realized the product’s ubiquity was both a blessing and a curse. It basically had the single product, which it sold mainly in its home country. “WD-40 is a cult product,” an article in Barron’s proclaimed, but “it is hardly a cult stock.”

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective.