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Comment on Columbia Unisex-Baby Infant Snuggly Bunny Down Bunting Bodysuit, Intense Red, 12 Months by Price Tag

Price Tag — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:57:30 +0000

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

Great suit, but it does run small, March 1, 2011

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I bought this suit for my 9 month old, but ordered the 18 month size after reading other reviews. I am glad I did. It is big, but not as much as I expected. The material is like a down jacket, so it's not great at being waterproof, but my son is small enough that he isn't playing directly in the snow, so it's not an issue (yet). This may not be the best fabric if you have an older child that is going to be sitting or crawling in the snow.

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Comment on Columbia Unisex-Baby Infant Snuggly Bunny Down Bunting Bodysuit, Intense Red, 12 Months by Chitownmom

Chitownmom — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:43:24 +0000

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

Love this snow suit very warm but does run a bit small, February 17, 2011

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This snow suit has been a life saver for us this winter. I have to wait about 20 minutes outside for a bus every evening with my 9 month old daughter in the deep cold of Chicago winters. She has been nice and toasty warm every trip because of this bunting. We ordered the 18 month size for her to start wearing in December at 7 months (but she is really big as in 29 inches and 19 lbs and wearng 6-9 month clothing at that point)and while it was big on her it allowed us to keep it for hopefully the rest of the winter. She is now 9 months 30 inches, about 22lbs, and wearing 9-12 month clothing and it is starting to get to be about the perfect size. I think we will JUST make it thru winter in it so I would definitly recommend ordering a size up in it.

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Comment on Columbia Unisex-Baby Infant Snuggly Bunny Down Bunting Bodysuit, Intense Red, 12 Months by E. Rey

E. Rey — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:50:22 +0000

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

Great for a Minnesota Winter, December 8, 2010

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My son is 9 months old and we live in Minnesota, meaning that getting him from the car to day care (or wherever we're going) is challenging in the cold winter time. We know we're not supposed to put him in anything too bulky in the carseat, but it's way too challenging to try to put on a coat after we get him out of the seat to make the 30 foot walk to the front door of day care. Plus, his legs still aren't covered up and I'm not about to try to put pants on him, too!

This bunting solves the problem. It's not too bulky in the carseat so I can still get the belt tight and solves the problem of having him be in the cold (it can get to 30 below in the winter!).

That being said, he HATES getting into it. He cries and arches his back, but he's fine once he's in it. Also, he's pretty long for his age (greater than 97th percentile) and we ordered an 18 month size. It actually fits him really well right now, though I'm concerned that if he hits a growth spurt before the winter is over and gains more than an inch or two, we might be squeezing him in it before the (very long Minnesota) winter is through.

Overall, this is a great product, especially if you can get it on sale!

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Comment on Democratizing Innovation by S. M. Felton "samton"

S. M. Felton "samton" — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:39:44 +0000

32 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

the editor was asleep, March 18, 2005

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This review is from: Democratizing Innovation (Hardcover)

I have been for most of my working career a "practitioner," that is someone in business struggling to out-innovate current or future competition. Von Hipple's earlier book, "The Sources of Innovation," back in 1988, was a pathfinding work and got many of us to look more closely at "lead custoners and users" for new ideas and innovations. They were a great source!

In recent years, a new concept, "open market innovation," has helped many of us go beyond our corporate walls to the outside world for new ideas and innovations in designated fields, primarily using the Internet to help cast our net widely.

Proctor & Gamble, for example, help to pioneer this concept, starting in 2000. In 2003, Henry Chesbrough's book, "Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology," went into some detail telling us how to use the concept to improve the flow of worthwhile ideas. His book was followed by C. K. Prahalad, Venkat Ramaswamy's work,
"The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers.

Yet, for some reason von Hipple makes no mention of the Open Market Innovation concept to help cast a net to early adopters and way, way beyond. I wonder why? Certainly, he's not that far out of touch.

But more fundamentally, von Hipple's book is too academic - perhaps written more for an academic audience than practitioners who should be interested in applying his ideas in practice. Perhaps his editor was asleep, or couldn't quite figure out what he was trying to say.

In spite of this drawback, I recomment his book. Perhaps senior executives will give a copy to a junior worker and ask him/her to translate it and recommend what their company should do.

Sam Felton

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Comment on Democratizing Innovation by Nils Eule

Nils Eule — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:32:05 +0000

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

State-of-the-art, May 5, 2005

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This review is from: Democratizing Innovation (Hardcover)

The book comprises an outstanding publication in the field of innovation management. It has the potential of becoming the central textbook in the field of user-centered innovation which is an increasingly important research area.

The objective of this book is to provide a state-of-the-art overview of research in the field of user innovation. Also, it aims to show how the different (so far more or less isolated) aspects are related. These are ambitious goals.

From my perspective, the manuscript fully meets them. It offers a profound, concise and easy to read overview of the research done in the past decade. Its outstanding quality is that it manages to relate different aspects in an innovative way and shows the rationale of the research field. It delivers new insights even to a researcher active in this field for some years now.

The book it interesting for a broad audience. It is stimulating even for a specialist in this field. But of course, the main audience is much broader. It should be of interest for scholars and students in the fields of innovation management, new product development, market research, economics and other. It will be of interest also for practitioners and policy makers in the corresponding areas.

I really like the many easy-to-understand examples and its conciseness. One does not necessarily have to have an understanding of the research field before in order to learn from the book (and enjoy it!).

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Comment on Democratizing Innovation by Frank Piller

Frank Piller — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:32:57 +0000

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

More than another open innovation book, April 9, 2005

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This review is from: Democratizing Innovation (Hardcover)

This is a wonderful book beyond the typical managerial how-to-do checklists. This is the reason why I recommend this book especially to managers and practitioners (innovation management researchers will read the book anyway as Eric von Hippel is one of the leading scholars in this field). Managers may find the book, on a first glance, academic, full with tables, numbers and references. But von Hippel is driven throughout his book by the motivation to present not only a fascinating new idea, but to show that this idea is already a reality and that there is empirical evidence that his concepts provide value for companies and customers. This is the main difference to other books in the area which present various fuzzy weak signals but no proof.

Von Hippel's book goes also beyond the open innovation idea of Chesbrough and others as mentioned by the first reviewer. Chesbrough names a lot of important actors in the innovation process, but neglects the - in my opinion - most important one: the customer or user of the innovation. Von Hippel starts exactly here. His approach is focused on the role of users and customers for the innovation process. In this regard, he builds on his earlier word of the 1970s and 1980s, but has a new story to tell: that user innovation is not only changing the corporate innovation process but also the nature of value creation: If manufacturing is outsourced to Asia, and users take over innovation (and perform this process superior to internal innovation processes), what is left for the corporation?

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Comment on 50 Low Carb Brown Bag Lunch Recipes : Easy To Follow & Less Than 30g of Carbohydrates Per Serving (The Green Gourmet) by Tracey

Tracey — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:52:42 +0000

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Yummy Ideas to replace my Kids boring lunches, February 9, 2012

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Was a good book and gave me lots of ideas and recipes. My Husband and kids lunches get so boring, day after day the same boring things, but not any more!

Loved the fabulous fiesta pitta and the kids loved the Ants on sticks with a twist! .... This book didn't just give me the recipes it actually really got me thinking outside of the boring lunch box.

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Comment on 50 Low Carb Brown Bag Lunch Recipes : Easy To Follow & Less Than 30g of Carbohydrates Per Serving (The Green Gourmet) by Lisa Henderson

Lisa Henderson — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:03:31 +0000

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Well done!, February 9, 2012

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Nicely formatted, easy to follow recipes that anyone can make, experienced cook or not. There's also a nice variety between hand-held lunches and lunches in a container. The only reason I gave it 4 stars is that although all the recipes are easy, not everyone will have the ingredients on-hand. Expect to plan ahead to make a few purchases, but well worth the effort!

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Comment on 50 Low Carb Brown Bag Lunch Recipes : Easy To Follow & Less Than 30g of Carbohydrates Per Serving (The Green Gourmet) by Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:16:42 +0000

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

LOVE IT, February 9, 2012

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Absolutely love this. The recipes have plenty of protein- but very little carbohydrates and they're easy, easy, easy to prepare. The formatting is EXCELLENT and the extra tips in there are GREAT. This PERFECT if you're looking for a great healthy meal, yes HEALTHY- not just for low carbs, healthy all-around.

Whether you're looking for a quick, easy lunch/dinner to bring with you to work or on a trip- this is PERFECT. If you're simply looking for healthy, low carb meals for lunch/dinner while you're at home- this is PERFECT.

All-in-all, this "cookbook" is a perfect solution for anyone that wants to eat delicious food with low carbohydrates.

Highly recommended.

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Comment on The American Congress by Megan

Megan — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:22:35 +0000

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Excellent look at Congress!, December 15, 2010

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This review is from: The American Congress (Paperback)

I actually had one of the authors (Ryan) as an instructor at Duke and we used the book in class. It was very in depth and an easy read, plus I loved the interesting little facts provided in each chapter. Don't hesitate to buy!

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