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What’ll it take to make clothes fit?

Clothes have no value unless they fit – but accelerating online sales make that achievement less likely than ever. A  gaping disconnect in the e-business model …. According to a recent Danish startup named Fitbay, as much as 50% of clothing sold online gets returned because it doesn’t fit. The company has a certain vested (geddit?) interest in pegging that figure high, because the company...

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Rethinking architecture as process

Presenting professional services as a process – it’s the interaction that gets remembered, more than the result In a pragmatic manner Recently I happened across a Swedish architectural practice that declared on the very first line of their self-presentation that they deliver “distinct ideas … in a pragmatic manner”. What caught my eye was this prominent focus on the way in which they do their stuff –...

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Making pricing models customer-centric

Thinking about basic pricing structures and how an item gets paid for hasn’t really changed since the days of barter. The HeSaLight example might be one path for doing so … New business model for selling light bulbs I recently (early 2016) read about the Danish company HeSaLight, developers and manufacturers of energy-efficient LED lighting solutions. However, this apparently increasingly controversial company seems much more...

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