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Competitive Strategy: How to Step Up Your Game

October 31st, 2007 · Comments Off · Bookshelf, Marketing

As a mar­ket­ing strate­gist, I often get a bird’s eye view of how high tech com­pa­nies approach com­pet­i­tive strat­egy. It can be sur­pris­ing to see how lit­tle “qual­ity time” is allo­cated to a thought­ful analy­sis of the under­ly­ing dri­vers of the com­pet­i­tive envi­ron­ment, or assess­ing which moves are likely to lead to the best results. […]

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3D">Navigating Your City in 3D

October 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off · Tools & Technology

When you live near Microsoft and Amazon.com’s cor­po­rate cam­puses, you can run into some amaz­ing peo­ple while gro­cery shop­ping, enjoy­ing a latte, or exer­cis­ing. Today I had one of those serendip­i­tous encoun­ters. While power walk­ing in the late after­noon sun­shine, I heard about a cool new com­pany that a col­league launched a few weeks ago […]

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