By teaming up with Kmart, Sears can take this experiment a step further and, in the process, save both companies a lot of money.
To capitalize on this requires a shift in culture and mindset, a willingness to take risks and to experiment, and a much faster-paced, more iterative, kind of business posture.
However, the scenarios included multiple rounds of negotiation, so there was room for give-and-take: in a third experiment, with negotiation focused on a single issue, mimicry failed to have its desired effect.
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Take a step in a different direction to see what happens as you experiment with new ideas.
The experiment will take nearly a week, and researchers will need three to four weeks to analyze the results, which will reveal whether organic chemicals are present, the space agency said.
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Fehr went a step further with the same experiment, finding volunteers who were willing to take a blast from a nose spray containing the hormone oxytocin, which is involved in pregnancy and appears to help facilitate social bonds.
It's the setting for an experiment in commerce: Can you take a high-end product traditionally sold through interior designers and sell it through at-home parties like Tupperware?
Nokia will support MeeGo as an open source initiative and expects to ship one MeeGo device in 2011, but my take here made it feel like the MeeGo effort more as a science experiment, than a product strategy.
The participants had to record themselves how many words they got each round and, at the end of the experiment, hand in a notebook of their achievements and take the corresponding amount of money out of an envelope.
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If you are thinking about how to better run a global marketing organization, you must take three minutes and read about an experiment run by Loren Carpenter back in 1991.
Despite huge demand, and even though the ingredients for success are clear after two decades of experiment, extending charters' successes to the other 96% will take a long time.
The overwhelming response to Dubost's experiment did make him question if he shouldn't take his career in a different direction instead of just search for a new job.
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The new world order may be changing but one thing that has always been a core belief of mine is that marketers have to experiment, adapt and take risks to find out what works in keeping connected with customers.
At least one system, Tennessee, plans a version of an experiment cropping up at schools around the country: having students take in-person and customized MOOC-like versions of the same course, and comparing results.
In their quest to make small-scale satellites ever more accessible and capable, the company has invested its own time and money in an experiment combining engineering know-how with lateral thinking and an entrepreneurial wiliness to take a chance.
"If you turn the experiment around and put the hydrogen and oxygen in and take the electricity off, you have a fuel cell, " Roan said.
That's the spirit that led a band of patriots not much older than most of you to take on an empire, to start this experiment in democracy we call America.
The experiment was the first of its kind, and Piscitell put together a plan and a bid to take over the distribution centers and warehouses and essentially become the landlord.
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