Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2021

If they haven’t, well, maybe you should consider freshen up your look, style and technology. Have a browse around your industry area and see what’s new, or if you’re innovative, then now is the perfect time to start creating and discovering. Rebuilding Customer Loyalty. So how do you regain that customer trust again?

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Tips Customer Loyalty Software Short-term 79

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. Obsolescence of intellectual property, products, services, solutions, or competitive value propositions. The fact is that business is not a static endeavor.

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Restructuring Blog CEO Brand 305

Women on Business

DECEMBER 8, 2010

As for your brand, how are your customers feeling about your brand now that your prospective customers have some knowledge about you from steps one and two? If they are feeling your brand understands them and their needs, is innovative, is a good value, and cares about them, they are now ready to jump in and interact with you.

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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?”

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Winning in this environment requires more than new technology ; here are ten ways to become truly social in a world that is not just connected, but interconnected and interdependent: 1) Do away with one-way conversations. Because the company trusts them to devise their own ways to connect with customers in meaningful and innovative ways.

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How To Airlines Media Innovation 110

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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Wearable technologies, implanted devices, and smartphone apps allow continuous monitoring and create a ubiquitous, 24/7, digitized picture of your health that can be accessed and analyzed in real-time, anywhere. Technological advances based on the Bartender model will also push the boundaries of healthcare into new retail frontiers.

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Technology Retail Apparel Customer Loyalty 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

LESSON: Don’t stay attached to old technology or products even though they have brought success and profit in the past. 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. Reprinted with permission from Jeffrey H.

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Succession Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Content 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless.

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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. Maximize engineering productivity. Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The time changed, markets evolved, competition became even harsh, and marketplaces required more innovative ways to make money than the mere commissions. Today, the marketplace business is no more about massive catalogs of different categories of products. Instead, marketplaces are creating ecosystems for their customers.

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Retail Supply Chain Software Marketing 122

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. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

However it plays out, Amazon’s outreach exposed a digital divide in the consumer products world. Sponsored by DXC Technology. 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. Insight Center.

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Retail Brand Apparel Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Southwest’s innovation was to focus on low fares with one-class cabins, homogenous fleets, and point-to-point routes. As a result, JetBlue is a regular winner of the “Best Places to Work” award, leads the industry in customer loyalty, and is consistently profitable. But the Model S gets faster and better.”

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Airlines Strategy Business Model Metrics 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Among the top performers on the 2011 World's Best Multinational Companies list are culturally-strong technology companies such as Microsoft, NetApp, SAS, and Google. Competitiveness, customer loyalty, innovation, and productivity — while critical to daily operations — trailed behind with each under 20 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

consumers already prefer chatbots to humans for customer relations. Customer service representatives can step in to handle exceptions, with the algorithms looking over their shoulders to learn what to do next time around. Improving customer loyalty and retention. In fact, 44% of U.S. Measuring brand exposure.

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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. Relying on hard climate science to map out non-negotiable boundaries for your products is, to say the least, very unusual. But it's very smart.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

The time changed, markets evolved, competition became even harsh, and marketplaces required more innovative ways to make money than the mere commissions. Today, the marketplace business is no more about massive catalogs of different categories of products. Instead, marketplaces are creating ecosystems for their customers.

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Supply Chain Retail Software Marketing 75

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Take a look at your business.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Take a look at your business.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

In the world of technology: the more of something you make, the more valuable it can become. When your product can become more valuable to your customers over time, the way you prioritize building features and harvesting profits within a business needs to change. Messaging apps become more valuable as more people sign up.

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Collison Net Present Value Company Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. Fostering innovation.

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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. Diversify Product Range. It is also worth considering your product range and seeing if there are any gaps in the market that you can fill. Infographics.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2014

In business, if you’re not listening to the right customers, it can all disappear before you realize what’s happening. Many modern businesses take stock in the reality of disruptive innovation and try to react accordingly. To get ahead of disruption, managers need to fundamentally change how they gather customer feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

After all, every company wants to be at the forefront of its industry and on the cutting edge of innovation. To find out, I spoke to some of the most innovative leaders across key industries, from technology to consulting to manufacturing. .” And for that, you need highly creative employees.

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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. Example: Jim’s firm has used the same CRM software for ten years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Hewlett and Packard set out to create high-quality electronic equipment that was more accurate and precise and less expensive than competing products. That DNA served it well over several decades; even through the 1990s, HP succeeded through its ability to innovate with hardware, and its strong focus on quality won it strong customer loyalty.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

With a technology focus, you might manage to launch a successful breakthrough, but your success will be short-lived because sustaining a technological advantage today is so difficult. Leading the list of reasons for the golden arches’ recent poor performance is the company’s seemingly scattershot approach to innovation.

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Brand Short-term Long-term Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Leading technology companies are increasingly soliciting their users to take political action on their behalf to defend controversial business models from regulation, support new programs, and promote their moral values in active political battles. There’s a business logic to mobilizing customers. Rinse and repeat, over and over.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

That shift has created an increasingly commoditized product and service environment. Digital has removed barriers across sectors, even in old-line businesses known for “sticky” products, such as telecom and insurance. That’s a major missed opportunity according to Ian Ewart, Head of Products, Services & Marketing at Coutts. “I

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Best known as the technology behind bitcoin, blockchain enables a ledger of transactions to be shared across a network of participants.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

When you’re pouring every spare minute into growing your business, taking a break to visit the gym often feels counter-productive. He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently. It’s easy to let yourself off the hook as a busy entrepreneur. his response was very telling.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

.” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. Show customers barely-working products with rough edges?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. For example, Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a method of measuring customer loyalty or advocacy across wide array of industries, from hospitality to financial services to consumer technology. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Much of it is routine and predictable.

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Health Care Quality Cost Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

If your culture and brand are mismatched, you can end up with happy, productive employees who produce the wrong results. For example, at a grocery store chain I worked with, employees were steeped in an operations culture that valued efficiency and productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. Supplier relationships, brand identity, process coordination, customer loyalty, and many switching costs were all forms of information.

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