Strategy Driven

MAY 7, 2012

What better way to gain respect, cosmic debt, word-of-mouth advertising, and reputation? Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Leadership Inspirations – A Call for Innovation. Which one builds your reputation? And the ouch question: Which one are you using? Give referrals. Yes, GIVE referrals. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2012

And Amazon is killing a lot of other businesses – businesses which were NOT READY for the changes that are swooping down on the sales, promotion, social media, advertising, and business world at G-4 speed. They innovated, took risks, made it easy to do business, and created products that consumers wanted. Amazon killed Borders.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

But while the network and league lost an opportunity to innovate the viewing experience, many advertisers took advantage of integrating social media within their pricey ads. By doing this, the advertisers garnered more reach and engagement. Why was this so innovative? It kept the viewers in their own space.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

Trying to explain to my children that there are advertising breaks so people can sell them things was a deflating experience. While many have theorized about the decline of interruption-based advertising, I realized as I looked into my children’s faces that the end may be sooner than advertisers realize.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Grab, which launched its service in 2012 with 40 drivers in Malaysia, came late to the ride-hailing game, only after Uber had established a formidable position in the United States. Transportation, aviation, health care, and energy all require physical delivery, whereas media, music, and advertisement do not.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Today, customers want to rely on what other diners have to say to help make decisions about where they should eat next, rather than relying on traditional restaurant advertising. What’s more, these constituencies are driving advertisers to spend an expected $2.6 billion on these social sites by 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Many pioneers of digital advertising believed it possible to create advertising so useful it's a service. By 1998, though, spending on Internet advertising had grown to the point where the established agencies woke up. Innovative shops like Modem Media, Razorfish, and Agency.com were snapped up. billion in 2012 to $20.89

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

We stand today on July 27, one year away from the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Since the British broadcaster does not run advertising, London could not bundle this in to sweeten the deals for possible Olympic sponsors. Despite this, the 2012 Oympic Games has become a critical component for it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Sifting through this work highlights three seminal moments in any disruptive innovation's development: Conception. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age. 3-D printing. The Internet of Things.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

In Q2 2013, mobile revenue per 1K listener hours was $34, up 50% from $22 in 2012. Pandora recently capped free listeners at 40 hours per month (since 80% of listener hours are on smartphones) to stem losses until mobile advertising reaches similar margins to desktop. Desktop revenue has stabilized around $60, only growing 3.8%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

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. In 2012, the company selected five out of 105 applicants; in the subsequent year 20 were chosen out of 130.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

How Google innovates. Bala Iyer and Tom Davenport attempted to “reverse engineer” Google’s innovation machine in 2008. The first step to innovating like Google, they argue, is patience. Another look at part of Google’s innovation strategy comes from a 2013 piece on DARPA , the government research agency.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Yes, his site was definitely taking classified advertising away from papers, he would say. But when disruptive innovation threatens to breach a moat, high-margin companies usually find themselves especially ill-prepared to fight back. Advertising Media Strategy' And for the most part the margins have declined anyway.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In dollar terms, small players—defined as those with sales less than $1 billion—grabbed approximately $15 billion in sales from their larger peers between 2012 and 2017. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share. In effect, it becomes a sort of coherent conglomerate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

This has been a steadily growing trend since 2012. Fifteen percent of online retail sales will take place this year via mobile devices, according to eMarketer , and that''s a 56% increase from 2012. Advertising? Innovations in Digital and Mobile Marketing An HBR Insight Center. And yet this is the fourth screen?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Or had a decade of disruptive innovation in interactive, internet-based video thoroughly altered the competitive landscape, largely leaving the incumbents behind? Generally, these mergers create opportunities for operating efficiencies and innovative new products and services with the combined assets of the merging companies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The early advertisements featured both boys and girls playing with identical toys. Lego’s customers were 91% male by 2012 , when the company released girl-targeting Lego Friends after “four years of research.” Invite some of these innovative female Lego-lovers onto your board or into your top team. What are Lego Friends?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. But innovation is an elusive beast. We can look to companies renowned for innovation — like Apple and Google — and try to learn from them. So what to do? But that's a flawed approach.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal. Story by Gib Bulloch, Accenture Development Partners.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. By 2012, that gap had increased by another 20%. As a result, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. In GE’s recent recruitment advertising campaign “What’s the Matter with Owen?”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Hoffman went on to be named BevNet’s 2012 Person of the Year for the creation of “an entirely new beverage category.”. Time after time it has been shown that a positive brand experience trumps more passive brand engagements such as traditional advertising or social media in generating effective word of mouth. .

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Despite the technical nature of these innovations, there are a few broad managerial lessons that have emerged from this prominent patent case. How much would it cost to have similar media coverage through a traditional advertising campaign? AdvertisingAge reports that in 2012, Samsung increased its U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

But you can get your people back into the groove with a little work, says Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, a partner at The Innovation Architects, the advisory firm, and the coauthor of Innovation as Usual. Think about when, where, and how your team has been most innovative in the past. Sometimes you need to rethink what you’re doing.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

For example, in 2012, my colleagues and I collected opinions on the U.S. Their argument is that declining response rates don’t affect results in a major way, so why worry and innovate ? Xbox polling, and other forms of non-probability polling, will be an increasingly crucial tool for campaigns and advertisers in future elections.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Within marketing, you have brand, communications, advertising, and digital. According to Antonio, “the way to ‘create magic’ is by combining the experience and perspective of traditional brand builders with the energy and innovation of digital natives.” Information & technology Innovation Marketing' To make silos disappear. .

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

As I learned during the 2012 Hispanic Voice Town Hall Tour my organization held earlier this year, Hispanics are a high-touch community and this level of interaction goes a long way toward earning trust and loyalty. As founder of the Center for Hispanic Leadership, I can attest to the fact that the U.S. Hispanics have been facing for years.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

For example, in 2012, my colleagues and I collected opinions on the U.S. Their argument is that declining response rates don’t affect results in a major way, so why worry and innovate ? Xbox polling, and other forms of non-probability polling, will be an increasingly crucial tool for campaigns and advertisers in future elections.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. But here it is midyear and the signals are decidedly more positive.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

By 2033, economists predict that tech innovation could convert 30% of today’s full-time occupations into augmented services completed “on demand” through a mix of automation and human labor. In short, AI will eliminate some work as it opens up opportunities for redefining what work humans do best.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Because of the changing and innovative methods of attack being used against them, it is of the utmost importance that they constantly refine their knowledge of the particular enemies they face. billion has been hacked from the Boleto Bancário, a payment method managed by the Brazilian Federation of Banks, since 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Some, like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, are habits gained more recently thanks to the power of consumer goods advertising. In the latter half of November 2012, there were more than 800 media hits for #GivingTuesday. Encourage innovations on the theme. Could we start a movement to create one? Learn from experience.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

Data from the 2012 Direct Marketing Association benchmarks say that direct mail — yes junk mail via snail mail — still reigns supreme, offering response rates of 1.1 But Super Consumers care about benefits and innovation. Typically an advertisement sparks a trip to the store where the product is purchased and fulfilled.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

As I learned during the 2012 Hispanic Voice Town Hall Tour my organization held earlier this year, Hispanics are a high-touch community and this level of interaction goes a long way toward earning trust and loyalty. As founder of the Center for Hispanic Leadership, I can attest to the fact that the U.S. Hispanics have been facing for years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Back in 2012, its intelligence analysts identified cloud computing as the number one strategic threat. It also began innovating new services offerings to diversify its portfolio. ” But as marketers know, marketing is no longer about advertising or press releases alone. The New Tools of Marketing. Sponsored by Percolate.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The Xbox 360 had the advantage of beating the other two consoles to market by a year, while the Wii introduced a novel motion-sensing wireless controller that allowed for significant innovation in gameplay. Despite its impressive specs, the PS3 was widely viewed, according to the case, as too expensive.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

It is estimated that they currently have about seven thousand of them (and Congress asked for about $5 billion worth of more drones in 2012). reauthorization law, envisions a $5 billion-plus industry of camera drones being used for all sorts of purposes from real estate advertising to crop dusting to environmental monitoring and police work."

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