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Egg Supply Chain – 192 large companies own 95% of laying hens
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Groupon taps into social media to get new customers for small businesses
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The concept of “good enough”- Gen Petraeus”We’re not trying to turn Afghanistan into Switzerland in 5 years or less,”
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Net-neutrality is important and the Google-Verizon proposal is unlikely
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Drug recalls up three times in 2009- Generic OTC’s have a store brand but prescription generics are brand-less
In 2009 drug recalls are up over three times the rate in 2008. While one generic maker/re packager Advantage Dose accounts for about two and half times of the increase – it still appears that there is a 50% increase of recalls.Here’s what seems to be playing out for prescription generics. As the great recessionContinue reading “Drug recalls up three times in 2009- Generic OTC’s have a store brand but prescription generics are brand-less”
Eat,Pray and Love author’s book “Committed” and Buyer-Seller Relationships
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Jet Blue Slater incident and co-creation of the service experience in the Internet age, fixing the baggage problem upstream
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Muffin know-how is as important to bakery industry as scalable processors is to computer industry
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iPhone4 antenna problems missed by the lack of situated knowledge?
var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-857684-6']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); It seems that situated knowledge went missing at the iPhone4 development with a new manager forContinue reading “iPhone4 antenna problems missed by the lack of situated knowledge?”