Nokia stripped a phone to essentials and sold 250 million
Nokia built the 1100, a phone with no camera or color screen, just calls, texts, and a flashlight, and it sold 250 million units to first-time buyers.
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3,236 公開済みの事例 · 随時更新Toyota and GM reopened GM's worst plant with its own laid-off workers
Toyota and GM reopened Fremont's failed plant as NUMMI, rehiring its laid-off workers, who embraced lean methods they'd once resisted.
事例を読むResearchers pre-stamped loyalty cards and doubled completion
Nunes and Drèze pre-stamped two boxes on car wash loyalty cards, nearly doubling completion.
事例を読むOrdnance Survey proved map copying by matching cartographers' habits
Ordnance Survey proved the AA copied its maps by matching idiosyncratic cartographic details that no independent survey would reproduce by chance.
事例を読むOregon taxed every bottle a nickel to redeem and litter fell by two thirds
Oregon made every bottle carry a refundable nickel deposit, and roadside bottle litter fell by two-thirds.
事例を読むOreo quit the empty cookie aisle and hid its coupon on milk
Oreo reversed a 23% cookie sales drop by hiding its coupon on milk, the item perimeter shoppers already buy.
事例を読むOSS staged fake crises to test spies
The OSS stopped interviewing spy candidates and staged a fake crisis to watch them break under pressure.
事例を読むPhoenix rebuilt IBM's BIOS from a spec to make clones legal
Phoenix Technologies built a legal IBM-compatible BIOS by having one team write a spec from IBM's manuals and a quarantined team code from that spec alone.
事例を読むPineapple sold itself by admitting nobody had heard of it
Pineapple, an unknown insurer, confessed its own obscurity in billboards to win trust in a distrusted category.
事例を読むPlenitude ran its billboards in dark mode to prove its energy-saving claim
Plenitude ran its billboards in dark mode so the medium itself proved its energy-saving claim.
事例を読むPoland handed Enigma secrets to allies before invasion
Poland, facing invasion, gave Britain and France its Enigma-breaking methods and machines, saving years of work.
事例を読むRadiohead let fans set their own price, since piracy had already killed the price floor
Piracy made the price floor free — Radiohead let fans reveal what they'd pay above it. A generous minority paid more than any label would have dared charge.
事例を読むRDRS Bangladesh paid $8.50 to unstick a labor market
RDRS Bangladesh paid $8.50 for bus fare, conditional on migrating, raising migration 22 points and consumption 8-10%.
事例を読むreCAPTCHA made every bot-check also digitize a word no computer could read
reCAPTCHA made every bot-check also digitize a word no computer could read.
事例を読むReuter bridged a telegraph gap with pigeons
Reuter used carrier pigeons to fly stock prices across a 76-mile telegraph gap, beating the train by six hours.
事例を読むSAG-AFTRA pooled gig earnings to qualify actors for health insurance
SAG-AFTRA pooled contributions from every production into one trust, so actors' scattered gigs add up to health coverage.
事例を読むSamsung Malaysia put strangers' live reviews in its paid Google slots
Samsung Malaysia replaced its search ad copy with live public reviews, so paid Google slots showed crowd testimony.
事例を読むSETI@home borrowed idle home PCs to search for aliens
SETI@home borrowed idle home PCs' screensaver time to process Arecibo data, aggregating a million volunteers' spare cycles.
事例を読むSeven-Eleven Japan let stores reorder single items daily instead of forecasting from HQ
Seven-Eleven Japan let store clerks reorder single items daily using real-time sales data, beating central forecasts.
事例を読むNature Conservancy bought Seychelles' debt to fund ocean protection
The Nature Conservancy bought Seychelles' discounted sovereign debt and restructured it, funding a marine trust that protects 30% of its ocean.
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