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When QSRs Think Really Outside The Box In The Innovation Race

PYMNTS

The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. In the modern digital era of QSR, it is almost impossible not to mention Starbucks and its myriad contributions to innovation — including the first really successful launch of a mobile wallet product in the U.S.

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Shopify’s Grand Retail Experiment

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Founded in 2004, retail innovator Shopify offers a cloud-based, multichannel commerce platform that enables merchants to put the customer at the center by transacting with them across any of the channels they want to transact in. Social media as a channel has recently become the most talked about.

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Taco Bell Embraces Fast Food’s New Decadent Reality

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In 2004, documentarian Morgan Spurlock released “Super Size Me.” Brands subsidiary? ” Four years later, “Food, Inc.” ” hit the silver screen. It’s a logical conclusion: If consumers want to eat healthy, they now know not to seek out fast food in the first place.

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When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 116 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time

CB Insights

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias.

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Why The Sweet Smell Of Tech Success Can Be Rife With Failure

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And classic films aren’t the only place where a flop can presage a hit: In fact, many of today’s favorite consumer innovations come care of a failed first iteration that was widely derided before it was praised. For example…. The Tablet. The Miss . Microsoft’s Tablet PC. Now if it could just get all of those backorders filled.

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FinovateSpring 2017 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

From their web site: We create, design and develop innovative applications, combining talent and technology to achieve high impact creative solutions for our clients’ needs. Valuable, but I’m not sure if there is a core innovation represented here. ^SR. She manages all digital and social media efforts on behalf of agency clients.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

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And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness. That Apple uses its closed ecosystem and the power of its brand to disadvantage others by denying access or imposing frictions on competing services like Spotify. In 2004 in the U.S.,

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