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Elevating Business Triumphs Through Strategic Management and Trailblazing Tactics

Strategy Driven

Thriving in the ever-shifting business landscape demands effective management and the deployment of innovative strategies. From the boardroom to the frontlines, businesses must continually adjust to changing market dynamics and evolving consumer preferences.

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Making Sense of Owned Media

Harvard Business Review

Marketers often distinguish between paid, earned, and owned media. Paid and earned get most of the attention, but the new battleground is going to be owned media. If you want to get ahead, and stay ahead, you need to rethink your owned media strategy. Social media is usually treated as owned and earned.

Media 8
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Doing 'Different' Right: Ten Big-Time Difference Makers and How.

Strategy Driven

Combine social media with traditional marketing techniques for breakthrough results! While social media is doing much to change the marketing landscape, it doesn’t mean you have to take an either/or approach between it and more traditional methods. Do what works!

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Why Marketing Needs to Hire a Corporate Folklorist

Harvard Business Review

Given the skills and span of responsibility required, this function should sit in the marketing department. And, of course, marketing is in the best position to integrate the stories into a holistic content management strategy for the organization. The problem is, organizations’ stories are usually scattered far and wide.

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Using Surveys to Understand the Customer Journey - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GOOGLE ANALYTICS 360 SUITE

Harvard Business Review

Marketing analytics such as demand forecasting, marketing attribution models, market mix modeling, and media budget optimization. But innovations in market research are changing the game. Sales analytics including pricing elasticity modeling, assortment planning, and sales territory design.

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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 Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries. In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose. So throw Frederick W.