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Innovation Predictions 2008

Get ready for … anything. As companies, governments—indeed, entire countries—confront an array of dilemmas, the only constant will be change

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Mobile Ads: Not So Fast

Mobile advertising revenues aren't growing as fast as expected, and that could spell trouble for a bunch of venture-funded startups

Refilling Kraft’s Cookie Jar

CEO Irene Rosenfeld is banking on a raft of new products to boost sales. Can she whip them up before investors lose patience?

Inside Tesco’s New U.S. Stores

The British retailer takes on the Southwest with its chain of Fresh & Easy stores offering healthy food and no waiting. How big a bite will it take out of Trader Joe's?

LiveJournal Sale May Revive Six Apart

After selling the blogging community site, CEO Chris Alden may have a chance to finally turn Six Apart into a Web 2.0 behemoth

An Embarrassment of Succession Fiascoes

The main cause of the messes at Citigroup and Merrill Lynch is their boards' failures to develop authentic leaders and succession plans

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You Say Guanxi, I Say Schmoozing

How East is meeting West and building a lingua franca of business connections

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Why Is Nissan Mimicking MySpace?

The Japanese carmaker is rolling out a social networking site, called N-Square, designed to bypass bureaucracy by boosting informal contacts

Making Connections By Design

At the World Design Congress, the profession imagined how to bring designers and managers together on issues such as production and sustainability

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Five Common Mistakes in Innovation

Every company knows how to get more innovative, but few are willing to make the cultural changes necessary to get results