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Tea Party 2004

Similar to yesterday's entry about Calvin Klein's workspace memo, I learned today that the British Ministry of Defense has asked all employees to record each cup of tea or coffee they drink while at their office -- so the ministry ...READ»

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Marketers Just Don't Get It

If you haven't read the Thursday Styles yet, you have to check out the article by Eric Wilson about the new Calvin Klein fragrance. This article managed to make me completely nauseated from start to finish -- mega-corporate marketers ...READ»

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Desk Detail

After arriving in Irving, Texas, for a Company of Friends event at the local Wingate Inn, I caught up on the day's news by browsing the Dallas Morning News. Late this summer, Calvin Klein, a highly design- and style-oriented ...READ»

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Analysis of Paralysis

If your strategy doesn't help employees act, it's not a strategy.READ»

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Spring Comes to the Printed Page: Visionaire's Light-Sensitive Magazine

Spring is here, and magazines are jostling to evoke the season. But the newsstand rags have got nothing on the latest issue of Visionaire. "Solar," a collaboration with Calvin Klein, arrives inside a sturdy ...READ»

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Unbuttoning the Levi's Brand

Levi's has a significant problem: like many other iconic brands -- it's pretty much generically synonymous with the idea of "jeans" -- there's nowhere near the consumer behavior (i.e. purchases) to match consumer ...READ»

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Art Mania in Miami

The art world's been making headlines recently, with record auction prices for both modern and contemporary art set at Sotheby’s and Christies’ last month. But they, evidently, were simply the appetizer course to the Grand Buffet ...READ»

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The 10 Most Creative Small Businesses

Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business represent the best and the brightest in innovation and creation, but the companies they rep aren't all powerhouses--yet. Here are 10 of the most creative small business drawn ...READ»

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Gilt Groupe Without Guilt: Fans Flaunt Their Finds

Passionate fashionistas have made Gilt Groupe the darling of luxury-obsessed bargain hunters.READ»

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Couching Tiger

Just as Rowe Furniture is working to streamline its production cycles to 10 days or fewer and Crypton Fabrics has enlisted William Wegman to help develop a line of pet-friendly fabrics, furniture maker Mitchell Gold is also changing ...READ»

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The Email Prescription

If your company is so smart, why is it so dumb when it comes to email? "Dr. Email" has the cure for managing the Net's killer app.READ»

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Smells Like Brand Spirit

In the battle for consumers' attention, some innovative companies are exploring a new branding frontier: scent. Will they be winners by a nose?READ»

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Barbie Turns 50, Celebrates by Having Some Work Done, Dropping Price to '59 Levels

For 50 years, a certain American blonde with the figure of a Playboy bunny, the hair-do of a USC cheerleader, and the arches of a Conde Nast editor has been channeling the zeitgeist and fashioning her wardrobe accordingly. She ...READ»

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Buy.ology: Why We Buy What We Do

It seems that I spend a great deal of time these days talking about the subconcious emotional drivers of designs. It turns out that there are very good reasons we all "buy" what we do. Reasons that are tied into our biology, ...READ»

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Top O' the Market: A Consumer's Guide

  Trump World Tower Richard Meier's Perry Street towers 20 Pine The Jade Miraval Living William Beaver House The pitch "The Greatest Condominium Building in the ...READ»

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Lights, Camera, Action

Ari Gold wears his suits with five buttons on the cuffs.  Robert Evans preferred velvet to business casual.  The Hollywood producer has been on our minds recently.  We've been watching Action, the cancelled '99 Fox sitcom about ...READ»

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Boston Hannah New York

Boston Hannah Chicago Deploy Application-Aware Backup and Recovery Solutions Application-aware backup is extremely important for understanding the specific requirements of each major enterprise application. With ECM systems, for example, traditional backup approaches have no awareness of the relationships that an object, such as a document, has to other objects in a business process, such as another document in a workflow. Therefore, if an ECM system routes documents through an approval process, and if one of those documents is accidentally lost—it cannot be restored back to the state it was at before the loss occurred. The only option is to route it back through the approval process until it reaches the stage it was at prior to the deletion and suffer the permanent loss of annotations and other properties' metadata that can't be recreated. This opens the door for compliance risk since the approval process, which specifies who approved what when, is not the original, but a recreation. A granular, application-aware backup and recovery solution offers the ability to quickly restore only the affected information back to its original state, with the original metadata intact, avoiding disruptions to critical operations and facilitating compliance. Boston Hannah New York READ»

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Plumbing the Depths of Joe the Foreign Policy Expert

WITH THE non-American speaking world marveling at how a would be pipe fitter (to give Google a whole new phrase to index) is doing a real life Chauncey Gardener, let's stop taking his pontifications on foreign policy so seriously, and ...READ»

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How The Fashion Industry Is Greening Its Operation

While being eco-friendly has been in style the last few years, it’s questionable whether green will still be fashionable next season.READ»

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Gold Standard

The Mitchell Gold Co. is bringing overdue change to an out-of-touch industry: home furniture. But unlike so many other mavericks, its primary competitive weapon isn't the Internet. Instead, the company is deploying a smart sense of design.READ»

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Panjiva: A Morningstar for Manufacturing

Panjiva brings intelligent search and better information to the fashion industry's hunt for suppliers.READ»

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Fast Talk: Creative to the Core

What's it like when your job depends on generating new ideas, inspiring others to do the same, and figuring out how to use the result? Creativity is the essence of business--and the elixir of these five leaders.READ»

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Ivy Ross Is Not Playing Around

For years, Mattel has worked to grow beyond Barbie. One strategy was growth through acquisition. Ivy Ross's strategy is to inspire innovation -- to reinvent how the world's number-one toy company designs its toys.READ»

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How to Make Your Career Move

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Talent Pool

Making their mark from New York to Tokyo. Fourteen talents who are driving design forward.READ»