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There"s no question that American consumers thirst for new products ?as the booming sales of camera phones and plasma TVs attest. But marketers are also noticing a growing demand for products from the past. This trend is affecting everything from cars to candy. |
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The Looming China Cr |
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When Western executives and investors look at China, the first thing they see is opportunity. China¡¯s population of 1.3 billion people seems to represent a spectacular potential market for American products and services. Every week, foreign companies pump another $1 billion into China, according to The Economist. |
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Most business executives have traditionally viewed business models as static constructs that work on a simple input-output method. And yet today, because of a variety of forces, from globalization to the information revolution, companies are being forced to face the fact that nothing is static anymore. All systems, including business models and strategies, are dynamic and ever-evolving. |
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Blogs Become Mainstr |
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Consider this statistic: The term ¡°Web log¡± was coined in December 1997. Today, some 35 million people read blogs. In other words, eight people have begun reading blogs, on average, every minute of every day for the past eight years. That¡¯s one every seven-and-a-half seconds. And there appears to be no end in sight. |
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