Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

There are two ways to compete in existing markets – gaining brand preference and making competitors irrelevant. Most marketing strategists perceive themselves to be engaged in a brand preference battle. Whole Foods Market. Brand Relevance. Brand Relevance : Making Competitors Irrelevant by David Aaker.

Brand 56

Brand Aaker Six Sigma Short-term 56

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

This book contains original case studies in which the author was directly involved, not a rehash of others that have appeared elsewhere. This is the only book to offer an original business model, one that has been utilized in the author’s track record of success over the last 20 years.

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Editor's Note: Like HBR's traditional case studies, this online-only "flash" case study dramatizes a dilemma frequently faced by leaders in real companies. This fictional story is inspired by "The Art of Piloting New Initiatives" by Rhoda Davidson and Bettina Büchel in the Fall 2011 MIT Sloan Management Review.

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Case Study Innovation Committee Supply Chain 9

Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Last Friday, Hewlett Packard announced that its CEO, Mark Hurd, had resigned after an internal investigation showed that he had submitted false expense reports related to time that he spent with a female marketing consultant to the company. As the New York Times reported , the consultant first filed sexual harassment charges against Hurd.

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Stage-Gate Letter Blog Executive Coaching 175

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. Dell''s success can be attributed in large part to its "direct model." This simple strategy proved wildly successful. For more background on the potential deal, click here.) Dell returned as CEO in 2007.

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

Guidelines 62

Guidelines Management Media Newsletter 62

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Dirty Little Secrets offers dozens of examples to clarify precisely how buying decisions can be facilitated through the right kind of questions, including an in-depth case study of a marketing manager who recognizes the need for a better website and wants to bring in an external design team. The result?

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This emerging social era is about engaging everyone around you to redefine what you do and how you do it – including sales, marketing, R&D, customer support, and product development. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Inside you’ll find scenarios, case studies, tips, templates, and checklists that will help you capture and retain your company’s intellectual capital as Baby Boomers leave the workplace. He has a marketing communications degree from Bradley University.

How To 62

How To Tacit Knowledge Mentor Intellectual Capital 62

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Front Runners step-by-step program includes case studies, illustrations, graphs, glossary, and bibliography. What trends do you see in the market, and how does your competition relate to them? How clear are you about the criteria for success? Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Prepare and Adapt.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Industry Follow-up Skills 62

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Comments One Response to “Minding Your Manners Online: Eight Lessons in Netiquette That Will Help You Succeed in Social Media Charm School&# David Chiles says: January 4, 2011 at 12:38 am Great netiquette rules! Ready to begin building your own company’s online presence?

Media 58

Media Learning-by-Doing Newsletter Blog 58

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

When it comes to building a successful social network for your company, you need to understand that there’s a lot of prep work to be done. In general, successful strategies include posting quality content that people want to consume, letting customers tell their stories and post their grievances, and then responding to their criticisms.

Media 50

Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Case Study #1: Stay current and build relationships with your colleagues so that you understand what motivates them. The new Work Market website will go live this spring. ” Case Study #2: Create a message that resonates, and forge a path for others to become proponents. . Her efforts paid off.

Influence 20

Influence How To Case Study Learning-by-Doing 20

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

It’s time for all leaders and their organizations to realize that we are moving into an age where meeting people’s social needs for connectedness will be the key to success. As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation.

Self-aware 72

Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

Delivering great products is no longer sufficient for success. In the past, product-focused success depended on exploiting capabilities — in branding, manufacturing, distribution, etc. It pursued this very same course with great success when it launched the original Kindle in 2007. The innovation game is changing.

Strategy 15

Strategy eBook Library Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Individual managers might expect a moderate market with fluctuations that follow past experiences; an uncertain market with unpredictable volatility; a market boom when everything seems to be going up; or a recession when everything seems to be going down. In moderate market, there is a discoverable order.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Company Marketing Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Unless you are willing to bootstrap yourself to some degree of validation of your concept, and can convince investors that there is real demand for what you offer, and a really large market, no one will write a check. Let''s suppose your idea is a good, viable business idea, but not a billion dollar market opportunity. And play he did.

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Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Individual managers might expect a moderate market with fluctuations that follow past experiences; an uncertain market with unpredictable volatility; a market boom when everything seems to be going up; or a recession when everything seems to be going down. In moderate market, there is a discoverable order.

Risk Management 11

Risk Management Company Marketing Case Study 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

August 2011 HBR. But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. In addition to Talent Camp, we conduct workshops, case studies, and a banking game called "Banking Street" that introduces Garanti's departments to students.

Banking 12

Banking Crisis Restructuring Reputation 12

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 29, 2010

Thirteen years later, the stock price is now above $240, and it has a market cap bigger than Microsoft. Jobs returned to Apple full-time in 1997 and quickly put together a brand new marketing campaign that he presented in a speech that summer. Jobs, in that speech, declares that “ Marketing is about values&#.

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Technology Price Video Cost of Capital 282

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt.

Media 368

Media Influence Blog Real Estate 368

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Most successful people have little interest in listening to those individuals that cannot add value to a situation or topic, but force themselves into a conversation just to hear themselves speak. Knowing how to work a room and establish credibility, trust and rapport are keys to successful interactions. Communicate more effectively.

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Tips Blog Learning-by-Doing Open-book 398

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Nearly every criticism the authors levy in their op-ed is answered in 12 blog posts , a magazine article from January/February 2011, a video interview , and a slideshow that integrated community and commentary, which were published between last October and this May. We disagree completely.

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Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Or pay a freelance consultant to do market research? Clark recommends listing the “concrete skills you need to develop in order to be successful at pursuing your passion full-time.” Case study #1: Create financial flexibility for yourself and commit to an end date. Patch weak spots. I have no regrets.”

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

Do you have a marketable skill? “If you’re 22 and you’re not a web developer, you probably don’t have marketable skills,” he warns. “If you’re 22 and you’re not a web developer, you probably don’t have marketable skills,” he warns. More on that below.).

Planning 8

Planning Outsourcing Case Study Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Nowadays with industries changing and very successful companies failing, if you don't scrutinize the company, you're making a big mistake," says Groysberg.". In a tough job market, it's easy to overvalue an offer. Case Study #1: Be honest about your requirements. Case Study #2: Turn down the offer that just isn't right.

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Case Study Long-term Consultative Short-term 16

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Having a bad attitude comes in many forms and despite my own lousy attitude during which I lost my businesses, I found that having a happy home life transformed my own attitude for the better and has allowed me to focus on my family first and go on to develop a successful business right from my own home! Congratulations to you Sir.

Leadership 419

Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Teixeira is an assistant professor of marketing at Harvard Business School whose latest research involves Web-based facial tracking in order to measure why, when, and how much you should entertain your customers in ads. What makes ads successful? A good example of this is the Pepsi campaign that aired in 2011. Not necessarily.

Brand 8

Brand Advertising Storytelling Audience 8

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 20, 2014

Social selling does not replace all other sales and marketing processes. 68 percent of marketers reported gain benefits in the area of lead generation, and 40 percent also realized an improvement in sales. Belew''s new book features compelling case studies , and clear and concise instructions on how to master the art of social selling.

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B2C How To Media Survey 78

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Social selling does not replace all other sales and marketing processes. 68 percent of marketers reported gain benefits in the area of lead generation, and 40 percent also realized an improvement in sales.

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B2C Survey eBook Media 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Business development has occurred primarily by accident or through market demand. Some people in your organization will devote much time to promotions, public relations, marketing and advertising. Operating units and departments must schedule and follow a program to market their worth to their companies. Marketing Program.

Positioning 50

Positioning Company Strategic Planning Guidelines 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2011

The multiple parts of a successful company require care, attention, grooming and benchmarking. Long-term success for the company and a healthy career for the individual are attributable to: The manner in which an organization or professional lives and conducts business on a daily basis. The base waters and feeds every part of the tree.

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Long-term Benchmarking Quality Process 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

True expertise is a rare commodity, and the successful company utilizes it on the front end, rather than on the costly back end. Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation… and will market their services accordingly. What They Claim They Do. Accountants.

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2011

The case studies become the substance of what we provide future clients. That does not absolve you from authoritatively stating your own case. ‘They Long To Be Close To You’ – Success breeds more success. Learning from failures is how successful strategies are built. All rights reserved.

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Learning-by-Doing Leadership Strategic Planning Open-book 63

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The longer they network, the better they get at niche marketing. Inevitably, when high-level forums are organized, the juniors, mid-managers and self-marketers infiltrate and take over… which chases us away. Some commercial programs cater to this market but are usually populated by entrepreneurs on the way up.

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Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

He did a stint in the Johnson administration before becoming an exceptionally successful university president. From 2006 to 2011, presidents'' average length of service dropped from eight and a half years to seven, continuing a long-term trend. And it is possible to discern patterns in the successes and failures of leaders.

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Real Estate Case Study Emotional Intelligence Storytelling 8