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Archive for April, 2006

Interactive Innovation

For most of the modern era, business innovation has been a closely-guarded trust, conducted by an elite group of innovators within the corporation. In the past thirty years, we’ve seen this expand to include cross-company product or service development teams, incorporating individuals from sales, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, and service as active participants in the design [...]

A Passion for Coffee

In this week’s interview, we talked with Mr. Steve Benitez, the CEO and Founder of Bo’s Coffee Club, the first ever — and still one of the most successful — Specialty Coffee Shop chain in the Philippines. As part of the interview, Mr. Benitez talked about having discovered and enjoyed the Specialty Coffee Shop experience [...]

The 20 Year Syndrome

In our most recent episode of Stranova Strategic Edge, we explored some of the factors that may contribute to the early demise of corporations, even when they initially achieve significant success. We’d like your thoughts on the comments and theories presented there, and what you feel are some of the more important approaches to avoid [...]