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The key to IKEA’s initial success was its use of an alternative mental frame of what furniture represents and is used for: not timeless but timely. Yet that frame wasn’t entirely new. It had been in the air. Other sectors were undergoing a transition from the durable to the disposable. Luckily for IKEA’s founder, the furniture sector had not yet, so his repurposed frame gave IKEA an edge.
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