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Purpose – Healthcare organisations face significant productivity pressures and are undergoing major service transformation. The purpose of this paper is to disseminate findings from a Lean healthcare project using a National Health Service Single Point of Access environment as the case study....
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policy changes in relation to culture, community engagement and the environment. Design/methodology/approach – Broadly … Australian distance, which will require a regional approach that networks with transport and community hubs. Practical … sense of place that relates to culture, literary history and community for tourists, as well as the potential for community …
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Companies that want to create truly global brands must first take three steps: develop a different process for coordinating brand development, revise consumer research methodology, and clearly define the relationship between the center and the regions. Using a different approach to understanding...
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Purpose – In every market there are non-consumers – potential customers that withstand an innovation. A common reason …/value – While most companies try to innovate faster than their competitors to defend their market leadership, laggard innovation …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show how design thinking can be a useful approach for helping interorganizational partnerships create higher levels of value creation for both parties. By integrating concepts related to human cognition, contracts and performance, the authors show how...
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Purpose – The paper aims to describe the application of direct selling, the process of selling a consumer product or service from one person to another, in an environment that is not a permanent retail location. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explores the application of direct...
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The Supreme Court has made its first ruling on “trade dress”. Trade dress was defined by the Supreme Court as “...the overall image of the business”. The Court granted protection to a Mexican restaurant in Texas and barred a competitor from duplicating its total image. Summarizes the...
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linkages that have large downstream impacts) in radically new innovation, manufacturing, diffusion and adoption …/rejection processes; examines the IMDAR process model (innovation‐manufacturing‐diffusion‐adoption/rejection) of new products. Findings …
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Purpose – This paper is a case study that aims to trace the adoption of innovation of the fabric filter, an innovative … for firms eager to market the next innovation to this unique industrial marketplace.  …
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focus of the study is to increase descriptive knowledge and understanding of innovation and diffusion processes in … development direction. Research limitations/implications – The case study reanalysis and expansion are generalizable to innovation …
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