The NY Times has a nice article today on business innovations among interior designers:
In a business where tradition can squelch creative ways of doing things, it is often difficult to introduce fresh ideas, but the economy is encouraging experimentation.
Here are some of the themes I noted:
Taking smaller and off-beat projects
Offering streamlined online services
Empowering client-led design [...]
The Great Recession has changed market attractiveness — perhaps for the long-term — for many, many organizations. The ability to adapt will determine the survivors and thrivers. Therefore, let’s take a closer look at four key points.
First, the ability to adapt and the ability to react are not the same.
We react to a contract being [...]
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Grasshopper.com promotes their with a nifty video titled “Entrepreneurs can change the world.” Kind of clever — I watched it several times!
This short article is 5-star advice for any enterprise facing a threat — from veteran entrepreneur Norm Brodsky (Inc.’s Street Smarts).
Facing the giant disruption of a 1979 NYC transit strike in the first year of his start-up Perfect Courier, Brodsky goes looking for advice from a customer who’s been through strikes before. The dialogue he [...]
This graph summarizes the consumer pressures that are likely to dampen the U.S. economy long after the credit crisis and Wall Street gridlock is behind us. As the graph shows, median household income has been flat for years despite rising household spending and skyrocketing household debt.
In five earlier posts, I reviewed the evidence of economic [...]
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