Globalization is a complicated process because it involves rapid social change that is transpiring simultaneously across a number of dimensions, in the world
A brainstorm turned Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, from a mail-order business owner into an entrepreneur who turned the furniture industry upside down.
Ingvar Kamprad celebrated his 90th birthday today. Worth an estimated $39.3 billion, the entrepreneur went from a humble beginning to one of the richest people on the planet.
'It's not a digital book, or an ebook,' an IKEA exec describes the company's forthcoming catalogue in reverent tones evoking Apple's lead designer Jony Ive. 'It's a bookbook.'
Our society values skills, but everyone is obsessed with results. The problem with this is that it can become easy to get trapped focusing on results when you should really be building your skills.
The clash between the furniture store and the blog IKEAhackers.net underlines the difficulties of brands keeping control of their image in the Internet age.