My brother (a partner in a law firm with some shopping center landlord clients) and I were discussing retail and…
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We live in strange innovation times. We’re told to fail fast. Apparently, failure is not an option – it’s an…
Bloomberg retail columnist @sarahhalzack passed along an article about an “experiential” restaurant in New York whose gimmick is that you catch your own trout…
Harvard prof Theodore Levitt once said, “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.” Clayton…
A few months ago I wrote a perspective comparing the products sold on Kickstarter with those sold after the typical…
The following first appeared in Response Magazine, December 2015. Some edits have been made (original article link here). The idea of…
Saw this story on RetailWire titled “Does Target have a problem online?” (click here). The gist is that analysts are…
Kickstarter mythology has outgrown reality. (But let me be very clear. I’m NOT talking about Kickstarter art, music, and movie…
Big Data has been around long enough now that it’s clear that analyzing big data can deliver some sweet benefits. What’s…
Last week I ran into research that presents a strange example of disconnected brand thinking. I found it in a…