Strategy Driven

AUGUST 4, 2021

Now that those days are gradually behind us, every business owner must develop strategies for generating sales. There are, however, viable strategies that you can incorporate into your business processes to acquire customers and drive sales. Your strategy should revolve around nurturing customer relationships.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 1, 2016

This month we are featuring Leading Voice Chip Bell , author, renowned keynote speaker on innovative customer service, and consultant/speaker to such organizations as Microsoft, Nationwide, Marriott, Lockheed-Martin, Cadillac, Ritz-Carlton, Caterpillar, Verizon, USAA, Harley-Davidson, and Victoria’s Secret.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

“Productivity and innovation soar when employees are inspired by a purpose that aligns with their own values.” The first is directional : Purpose acts as a kind of North Star to help guide strategy and innovation. The third is reputational : Deep purpose engenders loyalty and trust among customers and others.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 8, 2010

What do you your customers believe and understand about your brand? Using “Buddy the Elf” as an example for the four steps to brand building, this week we’ll discuss steps three and four: developing brand identification and meaning, and developing relationships with customers. Are you ready?? What would you think then?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

If change and innovation weren’t key contributors to sustainable success, and the enterprise could just run on auto-pilot, you could replace the CEO with a General Manager. That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. The fact is that business is not a static endeavor.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Examples of business objectives can include market expansion, revenue growth, cost reductions or optimization, product development, etc. However, sales goals can be more complex as well, combining customer loyalty with the sales process in an efficient manner.

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CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

Employee discretionary effort and focus are being challenged for many reasons, including the labour market and working from home. Developing the skills to engage team members is important. As a leader you are obligated to develop your skills to influence and support each and every team member. Maybe, no more so than right now.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

This latest frequent flyer reboot is an example of how the meaning, measure, and management of “customer loyalty” are changing. So serious customer-centric organizations and innovative marketers are decreasingly asking, “How do we make our customers more loyal?” Customers Marketing'

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Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2019

But, the desire for instant gratification is also forcing logistics and transportation businesses to provide delivery options that are faster, more cost-effective, and convenient as well as offer increased flexibility to the customer. It is changing the entire logistics industry and the world we live in. Operation Costs Have to Be Reduced.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

The Zappos vision statement is, “Delivering happiness to our customers, vendors and employees.” Happiness has created unparalleled customer loyalty to the extent 80% of their customers return to purchase again. Success depends on valuing each employee’s satisfaction, motivation, well-being and development.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Just because all companies now possess the technological capability to hold social conversations with employees, customers and stakeholders, this does not mean we can automatically make these conversations valuable. What will employees rely on to guide their interactions with customers now that they can communicate with them 24/7?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

3 Innovation is DOA. Product development has been a little slow for a while. These days, most of your product developments are minor enhancements that don’t yield better margins. But that’s OK, because the customer expects product improvements. You need to re-energize innovation-fast. Shake them up.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fear based motivations don’t instill loyalty, create trust, build morale, inspire creativity, attract talent, or drive innovation. when things get tough, or other opportunities present themselves, your employees will cut-and-run at the first option that comes their way because you have failed to earn their loyalty.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2015

Data monetization is a lucrative market. Customer loyalty cards are one of the best ways of gaining insights into how people spend their money. Because you can target specific promotions to individual customer groups. For instance, let’s say that you are a commercial property developer. And you own a shopping mall.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

THE SECRET: These big pacesetter corporations have discovered that by partnering with smaller, specialized companies they are able to obtain the critical skills they need to gain a competitive advantage – thus paving the way for innovation and increased market share. Reprinted with permission from Jeffrey H. Gitomer and Buy Gitomer.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. Customers enjoy the benefit of new features sooner.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

They’re independent businesspeople who are now marketing their sales and personal development services using my intellectual property, both online and in the classroom. Companies like Amazon, Zappos, and Apple have marched to the head of the class by innovating BEFORE the market did, and they set the standard for others to follow.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2012

Capitalizing on the growing demand for e-books, the exploding app market, e-reader popularity, and the global appetite for cool products,Apple went to market having no idea what an explosion of creativity they were unleashing. Take products to market? Develop new products? Get customers? Keep customers?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There was a time when the entry of an online alternative in a market would scare the hell out of small offline retailers. The time changed, markets evolved, competition became even harsh, and marketplaces required more innovative ways to make money than the mere commissions. Take Amazon for example. marketplace model today.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2018

Then, by applying tools like artificial intelligence, the online retailers are able to create more-personalized customer experiences, fostering levels of satisfaction, connection, and customer loyalty that traditional retailers just can’t compete with. Data-Driven Marketing. Insight Center. Sponsored by Google.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

There was a time when the entry of an online alternative in a market would scare the hell out of small offline retailers. The time changed, markets evolved, competition became even harsh, and marketplaces required more innovative ways to make money than the mere commissions. Take Amazon for example. It indeed is.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

The hybrid Prius was a legitimate business home run (2 million sold), and it helped both differentiate Toyota's brand as the market innovator and propel Toyota to unprecedented profits. Buried beneath the pizzaz of high-profile PR announcements, Ford has developed what appears to be a broad, well-thought-out sustainability strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

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. At Procter & Gamble, for instance, technology says it’s time to remind parents about Pampers, while analytics says that direct marketing is the best way to do it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

By diving into the data, we were able to dramatically reduce customer dissatisfaction, increase customer loyalty, and develop new, differentiating service offerings. Figuring Out What Our Customers Wanted. The innovation team concluded that we were neither seeing nor valuing our guests’ clothing as they did.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Fostering innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

How can I help marketing retain more customers? Rather than framing the challenge as one of building a better churn model, they will look to improve their understanding of the customers behind the data. What kinds of products or types of communication are going to increase customer loyalty? Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2011

They outperform their industry because they've figured out how to enable the key asset of the new economy: scalably leverage many people's contributions, including the app developers eager to piggyback on the industry's most attractive devices. Nilofer Merchant is a corporate advisor and speaker on innovation methods.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. Some are chief customer officers, chief experience officers, chief client officers, or chief digital officers. Clear, meaningful insight into the market and the consumer decision journey is job one for today’s CMO.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2019

Even if you are the most successful brand in your industry, you can be sure that the competition will be looking for innovative ways to grow and knock you off of your perch. This can be particularly effective if you are scaling into areas with less competition as it can be much easier to dominate the local market. Ramp Up Marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

A sales focus fails to deliver a profitable market leadership position because it favors short-term revenue growth and customer acquisition over sustainable margins and customer loyalty. These disparate efforts have compromised operational excellence.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It governs an organization's cultivation of its intellectual capital—how it leverages what it already knows how to do, and how it evolves its offering based on changing market demands. With hardware markets, money is spent upfront to develop a system. Then, the hardware company does the same thing again.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Today, however, by exploiting new digital technologies, firms like Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB have made customer co-creation of value central to their business models and in doing so now rank among the world’s most innovative and valuable firms. It starts by understanding customers’ affinity with the brands.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. See More Videos > See More Videos > All loyalty programs are vulnerable to a blockchain revolution, but the travel industry is perhaps the most at risk. Distributed Database.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

If a user agreed to the noble goal of free connectivity for their fellow citizens, they were directed to tell their Member of Parliament to support Facebook’s developing world program: Internet.org seeks to connect billions of people in the developing world to the internet. Rinse and repeat, over and over.

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