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Gjis van Wulfen: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

He worked as a marketer in the fast moving consumer goods sector and switched to consulting at Ernst & Young Consulting and Boer & Croon Strategy & Management Group. At the end of 2002 he started his own innovation organization to spread, train and facilitate the FORTH innovation […].

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Six Marketing Mistakes at CES 2012

Harvard Business Review

And everywhere you go in this gathering of the smartest people in the most exciting business category on the planet, there are marketing mistakes being made. The engineering of electronics has never been healthier, but the quality of the marketing lags far behind. Technology marketing needs to be shameless.

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Wild West Days of Social Media Are Over: Time For Some Discipline, Communicators

leaderCommunicator

And to others, anything social media falls in what they believe is the age of experimentation: the “Wild West” of the Internet. While I’m a big proponent of innovating with social media strategies, the days of the Wild West are – in a word -- over. MIT Sloan Management Review 2012 Social Business Global. Let’s be honest.

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Guardrails: Keep Your Projects Out of the Weeds

Strategy Driven

On your road to success (whether it be to increase profits, become an industry leader, capture more market share, etc.), Example: We will have sold 15K units of product and bring in $20K in revenue by April 2012, or we will go back to the drawing board. Example: We will have sold 15K units of product.

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets?

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Do You Know What Makes Your Company Distinctive?

Harvard Business Review

Every company has a limited amount of time, money, and resources that it can invest in innovation. That’s why they should focus their energies on opportunities that will set them apart from their competition — that is, they should innovate where they differentiate. This helped position Progressive as a market leader today.

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London Succeeds in Its Olympic Trials

Harvard Business Review

We stand today on July 27, one year away from the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. London was announced as host city on July 6, 2005 to wild celebrations. Rather than panic, London's leaders have been both innovative and fearless in finding ways to "make more from less." Britain is well ahead of schedule.