Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

If you want your customers to care about product quality, give them a choice. This finding is great news for marketers who focus on value creation. Of course the opposite rule also holds, and our findings have implications for firms that seek to compete on price with me-too products.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 19, 2011

“ Addiction Marketing &# is a phrase I started using a few years back while waiting in line for my drink at Starbucks. It was at that moment I realized the real power of one of Starbucks key business drivers, if not their most critical business driver – Starbucks sells products that cater to peoples addictive tendencies.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

You might notice a competitor releases a new product at the same time year in and year out. Whether that’s market share, souls, or some other metric. As Sam defeated this challenge, he threw one of the hammers at Donkey Kong and said he had been waiting for this moment for a long time. There is something to lose.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

As a practitioner of a design-led form of product development, and in my own research and writing about an empathetic approach to product design, I’m overtly critical of the Lean manifesto. The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

If you ask customers what they want they will tell you I want the service and product for nothing. Back to Apple, their products are easy to use and their informed employees can teach consumers how to use their products. Performance standards hammered out. Customers are consistently overwhelmed by the service and product.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

A product or service possesses quality if it helps someone and enjoys a sustainable market.”. In a timeframe in which mating parts in this car plant could not be assembled without hammers, Pipp directed his staff to purchase competitors cars and take them apart. Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. “A

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2012

In order to move to Stage 3, the team must hammer out the performance standards and commitment to achieving them. If the team becomes relentless in providing superior products and anticipating the changing needs of the customer, it becomes possible to become indispensable to your customers. Points to Remember.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2011

Decades' worth of academic marketing research has repeatedly shown that price promotions are fraught with danger and are suitable only for very specific purposes under special circumstances. One circumstance in which price promotions do work is when a company introduces a product to consumers. Dholakia is the William S. Mackey, Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. Merijn te Booij, Genesys’s chief marketing officer, decided to stop waiting for the perfect candidate to appear though established channels.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The problem is, these technologies don’t appear to be making a difference to productivity figures, or subsequently the wages and wellbeing of people. It’s a refrain with a strong heritage, with Robert Solow famously remarking that “you can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics” back in 1987.

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Innovation Productivity Products Technology 101

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

But over the last two years, Daniela Simpson, the director of marketing, helped it achieve 15% revenue growth per year, which is seven times higher than category growth. Simpson quickly shifted her focus away from the hard candies line and launched new gummy products using existing excess capacity in a plant.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Edwards Deming’s list of 14 points for western management : Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. In those cases where the slogan is actually used as a hammer to blame employees when results disappoint is when it does cause damage.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” McDonalds had to do this when on “product range” it took this position: Traditional meal range but with an increased emphasis on salad items and with the option for customers to design their own burgers.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In a marketplace gone global, productive partnerships are more crucial than ever. If you think you can sell a partner by merely "demoing" your wonderful product you have not grasped this essential point. Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. Ask questions. Don''t figure it out.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

trillion market by 2020 — lay in its ability to operate with little or no “human intervention.” Today, companies usually envision singular product offerings for the Internet of Things, resulting in store shelves with things that do not connect very well to other things once the consumer gets them home.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2011

As long as we were making, say, good hammers, culture didn't really matter. Most were making hammers, or they were treating more complicated products and services as if they were hammers. This is one of the ways marketers can make themselves an agreeable, respectful presence in our midst. Precious few.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Led by the writings of Michael Hammer and Tom Davenport , firms realized that they didn't need to organize work the way they used to. Instead, they could leverage new information technologies to reengineer, reorganize and radically streamline their production and service delivery.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 It is true that Kalanick consistently called China the most important market for Uber. Uber truly wanted to succeed in its fastest-growing market, one where taxi drivers outnumber their U.S. trillion smiled for the camera alongside the Chinese leader.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

As the market has matured, AI is beginning to move into enterprises that will use it but not develop it on their own. They hope AI can improve productivity, automate existing process, provide predictive analysis, and extract meaning from massive data sets. For them, AI is a competitive advantage, but not part of their core product.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. People look at brands and ask what they do for the world.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

I also argued that capital markets regulators are much more lackadaisical about protecting the game that has been entrusted to them — and they should learn a lesson from the NFL before their game is irreparably damaged. NFL fans collectively gasped when the hammer came down. How about Commissioner Goodell on 'bounty-gate'?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

Reflecting this broader viewpoint, the company began to expand its market footprint, by, for instance, investing in a start-up that planned to sell furniture via the internet. When the brand does “good things,” such as introduce a highly innovative new product, a deposit is put into the brand bank account.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

In a provocative and saucy book, It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For , Spence and coauthor Haley Rushing explain the business strategies and competitive ideas behind many of the one-of-a-kind organizations he has studied or worked with over the years, from BMW to Whole Foods Market to the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The businesses most at risk from platforms powered by rapidly improving online technologies aren’t, in fact, traditional businesses that sell products and services to consumers. Village matchmakers started making their living organizing marriage markets millennia ago. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

Clearly, products can thrive when they are surrounded by family or communal rituals that make people feel good. A virtue that will be tested this off season as the league and the players' union try to hammer out a new collective bargaining agreement.) It's a totally feel-good time. Promoting every element. Completely and unashamedly.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

This type includes engineers and designers who have a lot of talent for building technology products, but, because they've been infected by celebritization hype, limit their ambitions to being able to say, "Hi, I'm the Founder and CEO of Self-Aggrandizing Apps." This type has an annoyingly loud mouth, but is relatively harmless.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

This type includes engineers and designers who have a lot of talent for building technology products, but, because they've been infected by celebritization hype, limit their ambitions to being able to say, "Hi, I'm the Founder and CEO of Self-Aggrandizing Apps." This type has an annoyingly loud mouth, but is relatively harmless.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 6, 2011

by John • June 6, 2011 • Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 2 Comments. Al thinks the stock market is pressuring the company for more top-line growth. Hammered by Wall Street in 2008, the stock has finally crawled back to its 2006 highs. Specialists focus on one product, one benefit, and one message.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

These are the products and infrastructure elements such as solar panels and smart electricity grids that are reducing our reliance on petroleum and coal. is quickly losing any limited advantages it may have had in this sector because it has failed to provide the right market signals to encourage deployment of clean-coal technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

There are now around 100 manual-intensive workstations in three of Toyota''s Japanese factories, where younger employees learn how to, for example, turn and hammer metal into crankshafts. The company hopes that these employees will then be able to make automated processes more productive. "We

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. Damon retorted that Ahmed was driving Barker into the ground by essentially giving products away.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

Similarly, if your business and its people take competing as Priority Numero Uno, they’re prey to obsessing over comparisons—our market share vs. theirs, our cost position relative to them, our comparative product quality. Perhaps to create the best burger, medical device, smart phone, or advisory service.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

can often have a superior attitude and be zealots with a hammer, so that everything looks like a nail. If there are continual changes in a company's markets or strategy, that company will most likely need to make productivity improvements part of everyone's job. Finally, the improvement experts (and I am one!)

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

He highlights the short-term focus of financial markets and of political systems, and also the need to change consumer preferences and habits, as three big areas that need to change at the system level. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. Winston : Absolutely. The result will be innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. After all, it’s more than a resume; “it’s a marketing document,” says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV. ” Here’s how to write a resume that will be sure to win attention. Further Reading.

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