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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. I also believe companies didn’t learn much from Kodak’s example.

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Why Marketers Want to Make You Cry

Harvard Business Review

Marketers are getting increasingly sophisticated at tapping into those strong emotions, and they don’t need a full-length feature film to do it. So how do marketers go from 0 to tears in 30 seconds? The difference between any particularly emotional story and a good marketing story is that a marketing story has a purpose.

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Measuring the ROI of social media? There’s a laugh, and a joke.

Strategy Driven

Amazon now has total market dominance based on leadership, vision, and technological excellence. Start a YouTube channel by inviting your customers to film WHY they bought from you. Invite all of your customers to join you by sending examples of your value messages. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Salespeople have questions, Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Jeffrey, I am a marketing and sales rep for a company that sells emergency cleanup services. For example, if he or she is reading a John Grisham novel versus an Ayn Rand novel, I have a clue as to what kind of thinker the person is. Your job is to show examples of how other people can use and profit from what it is that you do.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. Consider Fuji Photo Film.

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How Disney Found Its Way Back to Creative Success

Harvard Business Review

In fact, Iger reportedly noticed that Pixar’s hugely popular Toy Story characters appeared in the 2005 opening parade at Hong Kong Disneyland while recent Disney animated characters—for example, Lilo & Stitch , released in 2002—were MIA (although Mickey and pals were present and accounted for, of course).

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Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs

Harvard Business Review

However, 48% of the mid-sized world market leaders come from Germany. The Munich-based Hidden Champion Arri, world market leader in professional film cameras, used the expertise of Fraunhofer to navigate the transition from analog to digital technology, and was thus able to defend its leading market position.

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