Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 12, 2016

Guest post from Michael Klassen : After three decades of working in marketing, I thought I had heard or read nearly every story of innovation and entrepreneurship out there. Along with products, Haight-Ashbury hippies conceived of innovative ideas that transformed product development and advertising.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 11, 2021

Prior industry experience is very important for entrepreneurs targeting some markets, but less important for other markets. If you launch a beverage brand or a fashion apparel company, industry experience is super valuable. And, they do so with a minimum of wasted effort – hence the term, Minimum Viable Product.

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Succession Entrepreneur Case Study Apparel 65

Strategy Driven

APRIL 1, 2020

It’s a classic marketing strategy that flouts the trend toward digital ads and continues to prove effective. It informs public perception of your product/service and facilitates future custom. Most people love getting free apparel of any kind. These bags are another practical product that provides value to the consumer.

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Brand Apparel Stress B2B 76

Lead on Purpose

JUNE 2, 2012

Product managers in coalition organizations know this all too well. My largest client is in the apparel industry with a multiplicity of brand names. Instead, product and brand managers are organized into coalitions that serve as a resource one to another.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 14, 2019

Funnelling them into a list of options that can either get the product and or service right or as close to right, is the best way to go about things. For example, if you are an automobile company, you have set organized products. A customer might be looking for a saloon, which you have. The retail options.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In this digital age, the perception of your business matters more than ever as it is the fundamental reason why consumers choose one product over another. Use high-quality promotional materials. With the right combination of tweets, posts and stories, your social media accounts can help you connect with millions of people all over the world.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. market alone, companies are losing $1 trillion in annual revenues to their competitors because they are not consistently relevant enough. Pride: Customers feel proud and inspired to use the company’s products and services.

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Loyalty Marketing Apparel Maslow 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

marketers spent nearly $60 billion in 2015 on digital ads, but the industry doesn’t do a great job connecting people with products they want. The Silicon Valley giants that gave us social networks, smartphones, and apps have realized the power of those tools to capture the customer data required for hypertargeted marketing.

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Marketing Software Brand Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Here’s a truth: many in the marketing industry today don’t really understand brands. Data-Driven Marketing. Nike Plus offers consumers the opportunity to interact with the brand, even when they are not purchasing a product (via workout instructions, health tracking, etc.). Ilka & Franz/Getty Images.

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Brand Productivity Products Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

China's luxury market — and the global phenomenon of " trading up " — are well known. Yet when China's consumer markets recently experienced short terms blips, several doubters promptly questioned the pace of their long term growth. But the middle classes are the key drivers for the future.". But times are changing.

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Steve Farber

OCTOBER 25, 2016

And we know his latest venture, men’s sports apparel startup, Qor (pronounced “core”), is already achieving over 30% yearly growth in part because it’s replicating the Athleta culture of caring. Teno is hesitant to tell others what they “should” or “should not” do. That’s a good thing).

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Apparel Energy Workshop Uncertainty 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Ideally that sustainability could be achieved through market mechanisms — which would be possible if the products that took a bigger toll on the planet also cost more to buy in stores. In a sustainable economy, businesses would serve consumer needs in ways that did not reduce the ability of future generations to meet theirs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

In the lean-manufacturing context, in contrast, assembly line workers learn to execute a variety of production tasks, take responsibility for product quality, and are encouraged to find ways to improve the production process. Workers tend to earn more and report higher engagement with their jobs. Insight Center.

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Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

However it plays out, Amazon’s outreach exposed a digital divide in the consumer products world. A D2C initiative can involve one platform or many, depending on things like image, objectives, target audience, and what’s feasible in a given market. Use the right digital channels. Make room for new technologies.

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Retail Brand Apparel Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retailers such as ALDI and Walmart have used price to position themselves against traditional competitors in their markets, pinching margins all around. Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. All too often they don’t. Improving perception.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

China is America's third-largest export market, behind Canada and Mexico, accounting for 7% of US exports as of August 2011. In the short run, China could stop importing and substitute many of these products. Given the importance of the Chinese market, the auto majors would have to be responsive to these demands.

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Apparel Real Estate Automotive Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

While "running out" isn't really the right phrase, it's clear that delivering many commodities to market is getting harder and more expensive (we don't dig for oil a mile under the ocean for the heck of it). In June, the New York Times declared a warming world hostile to food production. Right now, the U.S. Nuclear on the outs.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Founded in 1998, Lululemon produces sports apparel for women that is fashionable, environmentally friendly, and as technically advanced as sports apparel for men. But marketing plays a broader role in shaping a brand. Good marketing helps ensure that brands are meaningful, different, and salient.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

But it’s less well known that efficiency is a problem for startups too, whose processes also become less flexible as they focus on efficiencies in their quest to move up market. The size of the apparel market only in the U.S. And it worked. is around $225 billion.

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Apparel Strategy Insourcing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

With the Winter holiday shopping season, fashion apparel retailer Zara has been the focus of media attention — the New York Times recently profiled the innovative fast fashion business model pioneered by Zara, while Elizabeth Cline's book on the costs of fast fashion has climbed up the sales charts.

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Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The automotive industry is being disrupted by electric vehicles and self-driving cars, just as home appliances is being disrupted by the Internet of Things and smart appliances, home entertainment by on-demand content providers, and apparel by online personal stylists such as Stitch Fix and Trunk Club. Product: mechanical vs. interactive.

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Automotive Brand Technology White Paper 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Articulate the larger purpose the enterprise serves, and become known for the idea, not just specific products currently offered. Artisans' cooperatives help market products from diverse artists. He could recycle the 1977 Star Wars movie and ensure its survival in sequels, spinoff products, and theme park rides.

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Entrepreneur Cooper Apparel Bureaucracy 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

In the search for profitable organic growth, more and more companies are making major investments in optimizing the end-to-end customer experience – every aspect of how customers interact with the company’s brand, products, promotions, and service offerings, on and offline. Measuring Marketing Insights. Insight Center.

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Retail Apparel Motivation Attrition 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Penney’s recent announcement that it is resurrecting its print catalog reflects a trend of retailers returning to the print medium as an important sales and marketing tool. According to the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), catalog mailings grew in 2013 to 11.9 This combination gets the right catalogs into the right hands.

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Retail Brand Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service. Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. Where are the markets with opportunities? Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics.

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Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

If I asked you to picture the consumer luxury market, you might imagine jewels, sports cars, watches, premium drinks, high-end shoes and apparel, and so on. Finally, there’s the harsh reality of biophysical limits seriously compromising these companies’ ability to source their products.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Style one: Market-driven CMOs who capitalize on the voice of customers. Market-driven CMOs are great listeners. Fara Howard , VP of global marketing for the shoe and apparel firm Vans, describes her brand as “an intuitive brand that leads with its heart.” Market driven CMOs listen to customers.

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Leadership Styles Leadership Brand Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The digital work crisis is this unnerving pace of technological change, complex global networks, and lists product and service variation in almost infinite work streams, a whole tone of digital distractions, and fundamental access to more data than humans can handle. Think about this, if you think about a legacy product company.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

They make a deliberate choice about their "way to play" in the market, guided primarily by what those companies do uniquely well: their distinctive capabilities. They then select a set of products and services that best leverage those unique capabilities and optimally suit their chosen way to play. Let's take a closer look.

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Succession Retail Merchandising Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

One group of high-growth consumer brands, in particular, has been harnessing the power of the “brand network effect,” by leveraging technology to build large, passionate online communities around their products. And a large part of its success is tied to how it leverages technology in its products—and in its marketing.

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Brand Apparel Software Content 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Some see them as a natural evolution, and a smart choice for many non-professional investors.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The last few weeks have brought news of turmoil in China, including currency devaluations, an economic slowdown, and a stock market plunge. manufacturers were doing about bringing production back to the United States and what factors were driving their decision process. production of cheap natural gas (using new fracking technology).

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Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

Many companies are aiming to be more transparent and authentic about their products, services, and costs. Take outdoor apparel retailer Patagonia. They can benefit greatly from assessing the distance between their recruitment marketing and the actual employee experience. Juj Winn/Getty Images. Let Your People Do the Talking.

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Reputation Brand Attrition How To 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

Brands in categories from apparel to automotive to sporting goods to spirits are licensed. It can boost brand exposure and expansion without significant investment, helping companies enter international markets or play in new product categories without having to incur the usual product development costs and risks.

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Brand Licensing Apparel Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Do they focus on “manufacturing” (creating products), “distribution” (managing channels and customer relationships), or some combination of the two? Among other steps, it elevated the role of customer segment heads, giving them authority over products and channels for those segments.

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Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

What advantage do we have — or can we create — in the market, and how do we maintain and extend this advantage? What is our promise to the market and to customers? What is our company great at doing? What is needed to execute against that promise?

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