Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Forbes – #1 Leader in Retail. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

Was the e-commerce giant engaged in a long game to alter the relationships between consumer goods makers and their brick-and-mortar retail partners? On the other side are persistent worries about conflict — not just with traditional distribution channels but also with retailers carrying the brand. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Retail Brand Apparel Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

The point is, if you can think, you can innovate. Here are a few examples where a simple twist on an existing paradigm changed everything — often in complicated technological businesses. And I predict that the innovation will make the electric car the car of the future. Bye-bye, traditional yogurt retail.

Innovation 15

Innovation Retail Airlines Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Its ostensible mission: " to prevent technological surprise to the U.S. Anticipating and enabling " technological surprise " has become even more challenging, DARPA director Arati Prabhakar recently told an MIT audience, because more people in more places have more access to more technology that ever before.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

The ability to make thousands of changes a day to its online retail service has been a key reason Amazon is expanding its online lead over Walmart and other historically “bricks and mortar” retailers. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. times faster in percentage terms. Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2020

New technologies are constantly allowing us to reach audiences in new ways. Techniques like email marketing, content marketing, and search have been around for years now, but we are still seeing some innovation in how they are implemented. Marketing is one of the most dynamic fields in the world, and one that changes every day.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The network effect, which describes how services and technologies become more valuable as more people use them, has driven the success of many internet companies. The advertising guru David Jones dubbed this mixing of branding and technology as “brandtech.” They leverage technology in innovative ways.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

You don’t have to be a programmer in Silicon Valley or a gene splicer in biotech to unleash exciting innovations and create huge value. Instead, you can rethink what it means to be in the retail-banking business, or the industrial-distribution business, or the office-cleaning business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

This popularity has enabled Heineken to raise admission prices by more than 60 percent since 2009 and increase retail sales per capita by 100 percent from 2009 to 2014. It consistently performs at the top of its category on attendance, guest satisfaction, retail sales per square foot and per capita, and yield on admission.

Brand 8

Brand Storytelling Trout Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Many companies that are “going digital” fit in this category — they are using new technologies to solve old problems. In its core advertising business, Google competes against other content and technology players; its driverless car will competes against manufacturers like General Motors and BMW.

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Metrics Retail Content Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The higher-level problem we were solving was getting the right quality and quantity of audience (the readers) connected to their ads. Zappos, for example, is less of an e-commerce business than an exceptional customer service company, which has allowed it to go well-beyond its start as an online shoe retailer to sell a broad range of items.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

In the early days of the internet, brick & mortar was a detriment to business, since online-only retailers could sell directly to consumers with fewer associated costs. With what is known as proximity marketing , marketers can use various technologies to interact in real time with customers, with the potential to move to real-time pricing.

Marketing 9

Marketing Self-aware Information Technology Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

These efforts are obvious in the bricks and mortar world, where retailers control what goes on the shelves, but it's not all that different for e-commerce. New entrants need only register a URL, attract an audience, and serve just the most profitable segments of the market. can find an audience. women's boxing?)

Sports 12

Sports Audience Retail Content 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. Apple quickly became the largest music retailer in the U.S. When Innovation Is Strategy. in Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Marketers see the world as campaigns, messages, channels, and audiences. To a marketer, sales is a channel for reaching their audience. Their strategies are designed to create network efforts through platform-based business models or to leverage advanced technologies like AI or the internet of things.

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Execution Strategy Metrics Resistance 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Technologies will change, distribution channels for content will change, usage environments will change. This is often the reason why thoughtful quantitative analysis that incorporates macro-economic trends, market share, competitive strategies, retail analysis and technological assessments so often misses the mark.

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Benchmarking Maslow Analysis Trends 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2016

Consider these three examples: In 2014 the US healthcare retailer CVS decided to stop selling cigarettes, at an estimated cost of $2 billion, due to it being “the right thing for us to do for our customers and our company to help people on their path to better health,” according to Larry Merlo, CEO. .” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

Mobile technology presents all marketers with a tantalizing proposition. To understand this rapid scaling relative to other landmark consumer electronics, consider this: It took 38 years for the radio to reach an audience of 50 million consumers, 13 years for television, four years for the Internet, but only two years for the iPhone.

Strategy 8

Strategy Advertising First-mover Advantage ROI 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Innovation, customer delight, and profits would all follow from it. No matter how I framed it, no matter how senior the managers in the audience, the debate would eventually come to Stayer’s motives for changing a solid business on a whim. I enjoyed teaching that case for many years. Why was he doing it?

Management 8

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

This is where the opportunity lies — in collaboration that includes the final approvers, embedding legal teams in the design and innovation process. Ironically, not including lawyers in the collaborative process perpetuates the idea that they smother innovation. Remind your company that there are risks to not innovating.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2013

One can naturally debate any system that seeks to crown the world’s most innovative companies. Forbes’s mathematical approach, which calculates an “Innovation Premium” baked into a stock price, suffers from market capriciousness. Amazon continues to be the world’s best example of a serial business model innovator.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2011

Digital marketing tools bring us within reach of the ultimate dream of marketing: reaching the right audience with the right offer at exactly the right time. Digital and social tools have enabled focusing on smaller, more meaningful segments of what was a broad, undefined "audience." At GE, we call this micro-relevancy.

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Audience Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Empathy is the foundation of inclusive design in that when we understand human motivations on a universal scale, we design for a broader, more diverse audience. With over 500 million dedicated fans, it also happens to be one of the most innovative franchises when it comes to fan engagement. “It’s tribal.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2012

Social media pilots don't work because they might limit the initial audience, which needs to grow organically and aggressively for success; or they tend to launch with a half-baked scope or technology that doesn't inspire the community to participate. Note that this is different than starting with a pilot.

Media 16

Media Organization Intellectual Capital CIO 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.”

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Innovation and its discontents are nothing new, of course, going back at least to the 18 th century, when Luddites physically attacked industrial looms. Of course, nobody thinks technology companies should be left unregulated. But perhaps what tech critics really want are more innovative rules. It isn’t.

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