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Why Marketing Needs to Hire a Corporate Folklorist

Harvard Business Review

Given how fashionable storytelling is today, you’d think every market-centered company would have a person like this on staff to manage the collective memory of its brand. Given the skills and span of responsibility required, this function should sit in the marketing department. But in my experience, not many do, and that’s a shame.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

The SME deck is to be developed in two months, with weekly two hours meetings, on-line or face to face depending on the location of my clients. 4) Develop an org chart to assign responsibilities and communicate it to everyone. Marketing mix. 6 Sigma Statistical tools to analyze Market data BCG matrix. Customers.

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Doing 'Different' Right: Ten Big-Time Difference Makers and How.

Strategy Driven

If you’re using the same old marketing strategies today because they brought in business in years past, you’re in danger of being pummeled by your competition. Combine social media with traditional marketing techniques for breakthrough results! Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild!

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CMOs and CEOs Can Work Better Together

Harvard Business Review

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

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Making Sense of Owned Media

Harvard Business Review

Marketers often distinguish between paid, earned, and owned media. We can see how content, community, and context come together in the owned media strategies of today’s most innovative marketers. But if you want to truly be disruptive, it’s time to rethink owned media and make it a more strategic part of your marketing mix.

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Great Advertising Is Both Local and Global

Harvard Business Review

With increasing heterogeneity in every market and global exposure just one tweet away, all brands, even local ones, must begin to think globally or suffer the consequences. Though the ad never aired in China, the use of Gere, a pro-Tibet activist, outraged Chinese consumers and caused Fiat to lose traction in the booming Chinese auto market.