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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Nothing – not even reputable films – should be judged only by fickle box office ratings. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Think of Kodak, which in the 1990s was the apparently unassailable leader in its market, with 80% market share in its core film business. It began moving into adjacencies that were tightly linked to the core — Lego for girls, a new set of mini figure elements, licensing the brand for a Lego movie. The results were amazing.

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The Booming Business of Drones

Harvard Business Review

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). What makes it all that more interesting, is that those fictional numbers aren't even close to the staggering reality of how many drones are in operation.

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What Gamers Can Teach Us About Fraud

Harvard Business Review

Since 2010 , big consumer brands such as NBC, Walgreens and Southwest Airlines have all launched major projects that center around gaming. As of 2012, it had terminated more than 1.5 Like it or not, gamification is on the rise. Because games make previously dry subjects , such as corporate training, more fun and engaging.