Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 21, 2011

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design. I Think Not.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 14, 2010

What are some innovative ways you can target and reach your potential advocates? Categories : Success Stories , business development 1 Comments 1 Alicia December 15th, 2010 at 8:37 am This story brought tears to my eyes, but overall brought a smile to my face. Book sales have contributed more than $600,000 to these charities.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# … Executive Development Opportunities. Inc.com Inc.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

a company that partners with leaders to help them develop the most critical skill in business – relationship building. Tanya energizes leaders to help them light the spark in their teams that results in: the proliferation of ideas and innovation,shorter cycle times, more collaborative environments, and high customer and employee loyalty.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Even their advertising model is simplistically brilliant. It will be interesting to see if the next round of Google innovation will be as successful as the beauty of their initial simplicity. It was exactly the simplicity of their business model and their product that made them into the company that they are today. I Think Not.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Like with advertising, fifty-percent of promotional efforts work. But the advertiser or the promoter can’t know in advance which fifty-percent! Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures. Higher prices and reduced advertising created an opening for competitors to take away market share, which they did. The company had to reset the business with lower prices and more advertising. About the Authors.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Instead of a monolithic one-way interaction, business is now being conducted through constant and meaningful two-way conversations between organizations and constituents – at every stage of organizational development. What’s more, these constituencies are driving advertisers to spend an expected $2.6 And it’s a good thing, too.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

That’s why Google created its Founders Awards to provide stock worth up to several million dollars as an incentive to innovation. But our research shows that high-powered rewards are no better than low-powered incentives at producing radical innovations. is far from settled, even after years of research.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you aren’t sure where to get started, take a cue from other companies that have taken innovation to heart and used it to successfully win and keep customers. With very little advertising, Odwalla differentiated their brand by extolling the benefits of drinking and supporting a “juice with a conscience.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Your employees are held back by a predigital worldview, and for the most part they lack the skills to develop cutting-edge digital offerings. As with other newspapers, its traditional sources of revenue were being eroded and it was on the lookout for new ways of attracting readers and advertisers to its web site.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

The people who work in a given department all focus on the same departmental goal— advertising promotes sales, shipping moves the product, procurement buys the parts— and they report to the executive in charge of their department, who measures their performance and rewards or penalizes them according to the department’s own metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

Gmail users, for example, see ads along the side of the screen advertising products and services that often relate to the contents of recent email conversations. That's the moment — and we have them more frequently as innovative technologies accelerate their entry into the market — when the creepy factor comes into play.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Calling himself the ICT4D jester (using the development jargon for "information and communication technologies for development"), he has no shortage of material. That's easier said than done in a world where most product innovations are geared toward the rich. BKash is now advertised widely, with 30,000 agents and 2.2

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Already in 2011 the Chinese spent more time on the Internet than watching TV , while in the U.S. TV advertising is expensive. Since the state has a monopoly on television — and on TV advertising rates — companies often complain that it is too expensive. The Internet often offers a more cost-effective advertising solution.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Despite the fact that Niantic, the American software development company that developed Pokémon Go, has failed to maintain high levels of engagement on the game (its current user base is now 30 million users), the phenomenon demonstrated AR’s potential to be adopted by mainstream culture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Calling himself the ICT4D jester (using the development jargon for "information and communication technologies for development"), he has no shortage of material. That's easier said than done in a world where most product innovations are geared toward the rich. BKash is now advertised widely, with 30,000 agents and 2.2

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

So they advertise the available job, offer a competitive compensation package, and a queue forms. But this approach doesn’t produce the most productive, innovative work environment. Most organizations want to hire employees to perform a set of tasks. In a model like this, the job is just a means to an end.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

That’s because the digital revolution has now made it possible to develop, produce, and distribute information in regular waves of better and cheaper technologies—the pre-conditions for what Paul Nunes and I have called “ Big Bang Disruption.”. As many as 15% of all Netflix customers watched it on the first day.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

The reality is that most revenue on the internet comes from either advertising or selling a service, and both are perceived as intrusions in the conversational environment of social media. Design Innovation Internet' Being popular and ubiquitous, we''ve learned, is not the same as having a long-term revenue model.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Marketing is not Advertising Social-Network-Un_Plugged Category: Sales Development , Speaking Engagement Comments Leave a Reply All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Design by 12GrainStudio Social Marketing for Team Building. When Ideas Have Sex, What do the babies look like?

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 26, 2010

big and small improvements, new ideas and suggestions for innovation.) ▼ 2010 (108) ► December (9) 70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategi.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Shortly before Facebook's turbulent IPO, GM announced that it was pulling its $10 million advertising budget from Facebook. Facebook lost a premier advertiser and also lost GM CMO Joel Ewanick as an adviser to its invitation-only client council. By design, advertisements should be engaging rather than distractions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture. Rebrand from the inside out.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Shortly before Facebook's turbulent IPO, GM announced that it was pulling its $10 million advertising budget from Facebook. Facebook lost a premier advertiser and also lost GM CMO Joel Ewanick as an adviser to its invitation-only client council. By design, advertisements should be engaging rather than distractions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. ” Rule #2: Find a balance between derivative products, platform upgrades, and breakthrough innovation. Recruit Holdings from Japan is a publishing and classified advertisement company, founded in 1963.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Consumer markets in the developing world are an enormous but still-untapped opportunity for companies seeking new sources of growth. billion rural consumers and about 3 billion of them live in developing countries in Asia and Africa. Create new channels for advertising. By its sheer size, it has huge potential.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

But, possibly because it has such great potential for improving welfare, the developing world far outpaces the US in creating a system where mobile phones — marketed specifically to women — are truly essential tools. Innovations in Digital and Mobile Marketing An HBR Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Doing otherwise biases the business against innovation because what you are projecting may look unattractive relative to your business today. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases. Consider the 2×2 matrix below.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

But if culture is developed outside of strategy, if it’s not driven by strategy, then said culture can become a very dangerous intoxicant. It is something you're thinking about and planning for, therefore it is part of the overall strategy being developed. Culture is important – it is very important. What say you?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Both candidates are making attempts to lure Hispanic voters, and yet their cumulative total spending on advertising to Hispanics represents only 4.3% — a low number when you consider that 1 out of every 10 eligible voters is Hispanic. Elevate the influence of Hispanics.

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