Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen came to prominence about 15 years ago with the publishing of his first book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, in which he explained how companies that were so focused on improving their existing technology could be broadsided by a new class of disruptive products. His examples included sailing boats, Detroit’s gas-guzzlers, and floppy disk makers.
The rules are simple: fill in the blank and then sit back and enjoy as hundreds and hundreds of responses from other jewelers flow in. (Okay, responses from three other jewelers and editor David Squires. That's a hint, jewelers. Participate. It's fun!)
This just in from the Urban Land Institute: 18- to 35-year-olds have not, in fact, forsaken shopping in stores for buying on the Internet... “as long as retailers keep their offerings ‘fresh’ and interesting.”
We all know that opals have been trending over the past five years, their fire-y changeable colors—the differences from various cultures and continents throughout the globe have offered both an antique and raw modern feeling to contemporary jewelry.
We've got some fresh video on our site of one of our 2012 "America's Coolest Stores" winners, Worthmore Jewelers, who were spotlighted in the March 2013 edition of INSTORE.
