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Thoughts on Your Personal and Professional Success in the New Year

Management Excellence

I was truly gifted in 2011 to gain access to and work with and support some remarkable professionals across a number of different market segments…from high tech to professional services to manufacturing, and I learned something with every engagement and encounter.

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Learning How to Make Market Segmentation Work Again

Harvard Business Review

For decades, marketers have segmented their target customers to get a read on who will buy a product or service. But if your firm is still doing traditional segmentation using demographic details or psychographic profiles , you may be wasting your money. The only segmentation that matters today is your own.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. Strategy : In this chapter they look at the business model environment: context, design drivers, and constraints. It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces. This final chapter puts it all together.

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If Your Mobile Strategy Can Win Here, It Can Win Anywhere

Harvard Business Review

As a marketer, I work to engage women online with brands and causes. of emails to my all-female marketing database are opened on iPhones, likely because many on my mailing list are busy moms who often aren''t in front of a computer. And these messages use strong market segmentation. It''s her phone. A stunning 64.7%

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It Takes a Village to Raise an Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

We've extensively analyzed the applications to the Echoing Green fellowship between 2006 and 2011, and built a rich dataset that allows us to rigorously study trends in the field of social enterprise. In 2010 and 2011, almost 50% of the applicants to Echoing Green relied on hybrid models, versus 37% in 2006.

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Big Business Increasingly Supports Gay Rights

Harvard Business Review

Back in 1991, a Wall Street Journal article included a chart entitled, "A Dream Market," comparing gay households to the national average, noting the relative potential advertising appeal for a variety of industries. LGBT marketing is on the rise.

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How Mergers Change the Way Your Company Competes

Harvard Business Review

Traditionally, antitrust regulation has looked for whether a merger increased or decreased competition in a particular market. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Sometimes, the mergers affect the nature of competition itself: how firms behave, how markets are structured, and even how rivalries evolve over time. Insight Center.