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When QSRs Think Really Outside The Box In The Innovation Race

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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.” ” Four years later, “Food, Inc.” ” hit the silver screen.

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Improving Customer Experience Through Digital Reinvention

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And Blockbuster, which in 2004 had about 60,000 employees and more than 8,000 stores, was in bankruptcy by 2010 because Netflix and other on-demand video providers figured out how to deliver a much more convenient and rewarding experience. And data can be structured in databases or unstructured in social media and video.

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What You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know About Millennials

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million of them, making the cohort born between 1981 and 2004 the largest living generation of Americans. Or, as Karen Webster put it somewhat more directly, “while they enjoy many FinTech innovations, most millennials don’t have a snowball’s chance of earning more than their parents — ever.”. There are 75.4 is a growth industry.

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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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From Instagram To Slack: 9 Successful Startup Pivots

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Today, Instagram is one of the more popular social media platforms. But before it became a social media heavyweight, Instagram was a simple prototype co-founder Kevin Systrom built while learning how to program. Below we look at some of the biggest startup pivots in tech history, and why they succeeded.

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