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Insight Venture Partners: The Science of Category Design w/Play Bigger

This category design webinar will walk through the science of category design, the foundational building blocks of how to define and develop a category, and provide many case..

IAMPHENOM Conference Keynote: How HR can Play Bigger

Watch Dave Peterson, co-author of PlayBigger, speak at the 1st Annual IAMPHENOM Conference on how HR can Play BIgger.

The difference between FitBit and GoPro

Today, the technology industry is caught in a landslide of hype about “unicorns” — the term adopted by many to describe the rare class of startup that soars in value to $1 billion..

How Hallmark exemplifies the Category Design Journey

Few people realize that Hallmark also owns diverse brands including Crayola crayons. The privately-held company now has over 27,000 employees and has been one of the largest..

Google's Alphabet: It's all about getting new ideas into orbit

Asking why Google created Alphabet is the wrong question. The right questions to ask are: Why did Google miss social networking? How is it that limo company Carey didn’t see the..

The software spending pulse

On the cusp of a new year, we asked several industry observers three questions about where the software spending will occur in 2013. Overall, and not surprising, they predict the..

Bianca Valenti and the new category of Women’s Big Wave Surfing

Bianca Valenti is defying all prior human endeavors to crack the glass ceiling on big wave surfing for women, and is creating a new category in the process.

When your CEO turns into the awful Chief Ego Officer

You may remember The Emperors' New Clothes, a fable about a ruler who is fond of snazzy outfits. One day the emperor gets bamboozled by visiting tailors. They sell him the idea..

Why customers forgave Netflix

Just three years ago, customers were miffed when the company raised prices and split DVD rentals from its streaming service.

Corning: A 150-Year Old Category Creation Machine

When authors Al Ramadan, Christopher Lochhead, Dave Peterson and Kevin Maney wanted to understand how businesses innovate new categories of business, they looked beyond the..

Entrepreneurial thought leaders series - Stanford University

Al Ramadan and Dave Peterson, co-founding partners of the category-design firm Play Bigger Advisors, share the science behind the strategies that innovators use to create and..

The biggest mistake politicians ever made

Republican presidential hopefuls have been bashing each other ahead of today's primary fight in Michigan. Here's how companies do the same thing — without hurting themselves.