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Killing Innovation With the Traditional Approach: The Story of Best Buy’s GIFTAG

Innovation projects fail for many reasons but often times the reasons point back to a disconnect with the customer or within the company.  Sometimes the customers weren’t sufficiently ready to buy or use the new product or service.  Maybe they didn’t yet understand the benefits, they weren’t comfortable enough with the novelty, or maybe they lacked the infrastructure to take full advantage of the new product or service?  There are an equal number of examples where companies were unable to operationalize the new product or service and had to abandon it.  But sometimes new innovations fail because a company can’t get out of its own way.  The story of Best Buy and their development of the innovative gift registry platform GIFTAG is just one of those stories.

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