N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Unless you are a very large enterprise it is unlikely that you have the time, money, staffing, or external professional relationships to execute a brand management strategy such as the one outlined above. Be very, very smart.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And since there is an order of operations, where each one drives the next, it’s important to understand how they relate.” Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted Personal Branding at Work. Joel shares: “ Individuals, like companies, have a brand. Leadership Tips for Managing Emotions.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. In this blog, I am not arguing against a clear definition of where a company is going and what sets it apart. You’re Not a Real Marketer until You Create a Brand [link]. Brand Managers inherit brands and manage existing franchises.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 11, 2020

One of these things is the branding of a company and building brand awareness. If this is your first experience with a start-up, here are some top tips to help you build your brand successfully. Every step of starting a business will require you to do thorough research and to help create a top brand.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 24, 2011

The original concept, created by Art Director Geoff Hayes in a bathtub, and perpetuated by several creative notables, has managed to stand the cruel test of time and create the 3 rd largest-selling liquor brand on the globe. Marketers operate in a dynamic world. How has this campaign lasted so long? July 26, 2011 at 4:34 pm. >I

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2020

Focus on Your Own Branding. Some digital marketing agencies are so busy working on the branding of others that they simply forget to work on their own brand management. These procedures serve as the blueprint for effectively managing the daily operations of the business in an efficient manner.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Companies need to communicate strategically and frequently with employees, sharing messages that are relevant and accessible. However, new mobile communication technology can help companies reach employees directly when it matters most, targeting them with timely and vital information. Reduce Wasted Time and Boost Revenue Per Employee.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

Organizations I work with increasingly struggle to straddle two painfully polarizing operating principles. So the companies push hard to provide both. But the managerial and operational ability to act on that data-driven information may not. Including more people, alas, typically increases coordination costs and response times.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

You may be switching industries , or trying to get into a particular company. But don’t assume your impressive résumé will guarantee you an offer, says Berrin Erdogan, a professor of management at Portland State University and the lead author of a recent study on the subject. Or maybe you just really need a job.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. One major Asian electronics company built a design lab to develop new hardware product ideas. This electronics company had no clear plan for how projects would transition from the small design lab team back into the core business.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Indeed, even organizations where top management keeps their eyes glued to KPI-driven dashboards have trouble agreeing on what their Top Ten Most Important Customer/Client 80/20 analytics should be. Should management refine and dig deeper into existing 80/20 KPIs? is the challenge top management needs to both ask and rise to.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

A new research report from the Society of Digital Agencies finds that in the past year there has been a dramatic spike in the number of companies who no longer work with outside marketing agencies — 27 percent, up from 13 percent in the previous year. Companies no longer want to outsource customer relationships. ” 2. .

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

When it comes to operational improvement, organizations today are light years ahead of where they were two decades ago, but there's no time to celebrate yesterday's wins. The question for top management is no longer whether your organization's processes need to be improved, but rather which ones, how much, and when.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

A few years ago Dave Ulrich, a management thought leader from the University of Michigan, made a comment I found both insightful and profound: “ Every leader needs to have a model of organization design.” An effective organization design model guides a manager in answering five fundamental questions in a thoughtful and well-integrated way.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

billion , entrepreneurial companies with technology at their core have disrupted entire industries and threatened or eliminated incumbents. A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

First, other global firms have a deep bench of seasoned brand strategist supported by rich and varied set of brand management systems and tools that are lacking in Chinese firms. Both are largely based on the brand management effort pioneered by P&G some 75 years ago and extended by the many P&G progeny.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Read everything you can find about the company and the job — from public sources, the company web site, and anything they send you. Ask about the company and how they think the job would work. If you know similar jobs at other companies, consider how they might differ. What more have you learned about the company?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

You can argue that it boosts a company''s brand , manages risk , and just plain saves money. But perhaps most importantly the general public is clamoring for companies to enact good, fair business practices — and most of that public pressure comes through social media. Nestlé is now much more proactive about CSR.).

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

That single sentence captures the greatest challenge that executives and managers face today: keeping their people and their organizations centered on what matters most. An electrical utility executive explained his company's purpose crisply and clearly: "To be the power source of choice.". The Main Thing is critically important.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Some executives may be reluctant to admit – perhaps for sentimental or political reasons — that their brand is sucking out more value from the company than it creates. A better litmus test for keeping or killing a brand may be purpose. In 1921, two brothers started the company to serve the ham radio market.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

In today’s world no one wants to do business with a company that’s not connected, has no influence, isn’t engaged, and that doesn’t get it. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target. It won’t do anything to help you, it will only hurt you.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

At a medical device company, a brand manager was examining a chart of daily traffic to his website. For someone responsible for a website’s traffic, the scale and swiftness of the drop should have made him gasp, but the manager nodded knowingly. Marketing managers pay close attention to the “referrer.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

As more is communicated, more emotions shared, more passions pursued in this much more vivid medium, we're likely to see stronger bonds between brands, consumers, networks and causes. More natural, richer forms of communication will demand more of what the smarter brand managers are already doing: letting go.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Branding has proliferated big time – we now have personal brands, country brands, political brands, cause-related brands, even cultural brands. The ramification is clutter, the enemy of brand messaging. So, wouldn’t you expect a heck of a lot more company attention to commercial brands?

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 19, 2011

We operate by the mantra of “use it or you lose it.” As a young Brand Manager, I pounced on consumer insecurities, pumping products that solved bad breath, armpit odor, yellow teeth and bad skin. The “M” Word: A Company’s Most Underrated Intangible. Today, we represent a marvelous marketing opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

Many companies expect their aspiring leaders to work abroad. Suppose you are a brand manager working at company headquarters in France, and you decline the opportunity to oversee the expansion of your product line to China. That’s the reality. You and Your Team Series. Career Transitions. Andy Molinsky.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

And brand stewardship can no longer be under the exclusive purview of marketing departments and brand managers. A 2008 survey of chief marketing officers and brand managers by the Association of National Advertisers found that 64% say their brands do not influence decisions made at their companies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

For this reason, well-capitalized hospital systems and insurance companies have taken the lead in setting up ACOs. Physicians own and operate these medical groups and hold seats on the foundation’s governing body. The medical group must be owned and operated by its physicians. Making the Model Work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

More and more companies I see these days are making strategic process changes to drive unprecedented business model innovation. Consumer packaged goods manufacturers are monitoring social media to get real-time information on their customers' perceptions and share it with brand managers.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 10, 2011

Pursuing Entrepreneurial Companies: Grad Advice. When a company has clout, there isn’t much incentive to re-invent. Sixty-five innovative operations - four in the state of California alone. So why don’t they reduce the number of operations? Read the company’s mission/vision statement. In the CEO Afterlife.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

A pharmaceuticals company we''ve been studying decided to deploy more than 20,000 iPads and other mobile devices to the global sales force to improve its engagement with doctors in emerging and developed markets. The impact on the company''s IT organization has been significant. It has never before rolled out something at this speed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Netflix's Reed Hastings snagged the top slot for his ability to successfully manage a winning business while launching and driving its competitor (in his case, Internet-based movie rentals) with equal zeal. Our bet is based on the fact that many companies in many industries are facing pivotal moments that absolutely demand a 2-in-1 mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

His prize, Victoria’s Secret, will generate $8 billion in revenue this year and operates in a dozen countries. Today he has more than 125 stores in the world’s most affluent urban locations and a company valued in excess of $1.5 Their stories offer valuable lessons on how to build a startup into an iconic brand.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

From Tommy Lee Jones waxing poetic for Ameriprise Financial to Beyonce boosting Pepsi''s sex appeal, celebrities are commonly used by companies to get attention and generate buzz. Some companies now actively involve stars in their product development process and other aspects of their businesses.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 4, 2012

These leaders earned their branding reputations by establishing themselves as the driving force behind creating, building and guiding the success of their companies and brands. Within their particular markets (and in some cases on a much more pervasive basis), these leaders are the brand. Larry Ellison, Oracle.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Speciality coffee shops are competing with retail brands for consumers’ attention in the grocery aisle, new coffee formats are being introduced (such as single-cup brewing systems), and U.S. It raised the cost of the company substantially.”. So, the company was down to two product categories: coffee and tea.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

But for years, as Chobani gobbled up market share, the major food companies stuck to their regular lines of yogurt. And new reports say that Chobani is talking with investors about a deal that would value the company at $5 billion. This transformation holds lessons for all consumer-goods companies.

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