leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Within the last year, I’ve attended dozens of meetings with communicators in which a single, consistent order is dispatched: “We’ve got to incorporate social media in ALL our strategies.”. Then there are those thoughtful thinkers who pause for a moment to go deeper in understanding what it means to be strategic with social media.

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Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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. you have to get their attention, and that means your typical tried-and-true marketing tactics aren’t going to cut it anymore. …And the Clients Went Wild! :

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Cultivate the local media. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Media builds like blocks: one exposure stacks atop another.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Marketing That Works. Our team feels that it's important to create a culture of celebrating mistakes because we believe that mistakes are the predecessors to both innovation and success. I would argue that the same goes for online social media. I learned to keep my mouth shut.

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Media Public Relations Learning-by-Doing Mayo 15

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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Every day, multi-million dollar consumer electronics products suffer the consequences of poor, lazy, ineffective, uninspired, unprepared, overly-technical, follow-the-status-quo marketing. Were it not for the intense media and consumer interest in high technology, the industry would be in big trouble. The difference is marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

With the announcement, some in the media concluded that the Google moonshot was essentially dead. ” The notion of moonshots is a hugely appealing idea, whether you are an enterprise working on a market innovation, a nonprofit organization tackling societal problems, or a government trying to govern better. .

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Wilde Armstrong Project Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

When I decided to leave Wall Street, I was the Senior Media and Telecom analyst for Latin America at Merrill Lynch, and the top-ranked analyst in my field. Or as thought leader Jennifer Sertl writes, "innovation ultimately begins on the inside.". The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. Tesla is also not comparable to Netflix, another frequently-cited example of a disruptive innovator. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

A lot of companies use an ever-more-sophisticated array of online social tools in an attempt to connect their people, get a flow of ideas going, and spur innovation. Why is the goal of a more collaborative and innovative organization so elusive? Social and collaborative tools alone do not create a flow of ideas and innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Success begets not only further success but also harder-to-meet market expectations. Some business media attributed the fall to disappointment among analysts over the lack of significant differentiation of the S4 features over its previous generations of smartphones or to existing competitors. Brand confidently.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. CEOs remain reluctant to invite CIOs to the executive table, insisting that IT is a cost center, not the innovation incubator it could be.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. This is a true golden age for consumers, who are demanding innovation in both the packaging and pricing of content.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

But unlike most Japanese innovations, it did not come from a big established firm. In the UAE, you might be surprised to find twofour54 , an entrepreneurial media hub in Abu Dhabi run by Ms. Companies and venture capitalists chase hot markets. Noura Al Kaabi. Nonconformist thinking has the best potential for genius.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

In the early days of my consulting business, I worked with a prominent education nonprofit, helping them with communication projects, from messaging to media outreach. But over time, I became less interested in the tactical – calling up reporters to come to press conferences – and more interested in media and marketing strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

This includes having an in-house recruiting firm to locate the best engineering talent for the start-ups it funds, a huge boon in a wildly competitive job market. In this piece from Greentech Media, Jeff St. Research Social media' The Comfort of Crowds Are Smartphone Users the Missing Link in Building Efficiency?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

Even the notoriously cynical British media remain supportive. London was announced as host city on July 6, 2005 to wild celebrations. Rather than panic, London's leaders have been both innovative and fearless in finding ways to "make more from less." This is not even a marketing partnership. Contingency budgets are $1.4

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

Others gain new responsibilities in strategy, M&A integration, or innovation. One company had three simultaneous mobile marketing initiatives, conducted by different groups, using different tools and vendors. If your company has wildly different digital marketing activities for each brand or region, you know what I mean.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Forgive a wild comparison, but Millennials are a little like Marranos , people who kept their religious identities under deep cover for fear that the anti-Semitism that had driven them out of the Iberian peninsula would find them in their new homes. We can't do good innovation without it. We can't do good marketing without it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

For my company, I focused on a big market and found a profitable and attractive niche. With Getaroom, I understood the lodging market is massive and knew a niche player could capture a large amount of revenue, but my initial projections were modest and I watched expenses closely. Find your niche in a sizable market.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Sometimes it''s from our internal teams or ad experts but equally it can come from a brand''s fans, followers and other customers, cultural wild cards (artists, social media pundits and thinkers) and teams inside the brand itself, including members of the marketing and product design teams. Advertising Creativity Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Even before Google bid $6 billion to buy Groupon, the online coupon startup, earlier this week, the media and businesses alike were trying to make sense of this innovative new promotional tool. Forbes anointed Groupon " the fastest growing company.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Now that we''re done, or nearly done, disintermediating old media like the newspaper, and supply chains like the book store, it''s time to solve that vexing problem of having to get ourselves from one place to another. Let''s say the Apple innovation merely takes $50 billion out of the industry. Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

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.

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Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

When it comes to discovering unmet customer needs and innovation opportunities, there’s no substitute for in-the-moment, in-context observation for making meaning out of the complex weave of emotion and rationality that drives consumer behavior. Why use them?

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

In addition, consumers are already spending more time on apps or on e-commerce sites, such as Amazon.com, and a growing variety of social media platforms. As he considers his options, Pichai should be careful to avoid traps like incremental sustaining innovation geared toward stemming market share losses by simply adding low value features.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Except when it''s not, which is becoming increasingly common — see the sheer pants crisis , the abrupt resignation of a CEO , a poorly-received job ad to replace said CEO, and a bit of media heat over a 2011 murder that occurred in a Bethesda store. Why would an industry beat a hasty retreat from a market that continues to boom?"

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Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

While "running out" isn't really the right phrase, it's clear that delivering many commodities to market is getting harder and more expensive (we don't dig for oil a mile under the ocean for the heck of it). It certainly has become a media darling for clean tech skeptics. trillion market for clothes and shoes.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

All too often, when marketers talk about their “social strategy,” they really mean a digital marketing strategy implemented on social platforms, rather than using social dynamics to benefit their business. While its social media KPI’s soared, its business suffered. It is now a cult favorite in the innovation world.

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Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Innovation and its discontents are nothing new, of course, going back at least to the 18 th century, when Luddites physically attacked industrial looms. But perhaps what tech critics really want are more innovative rules. If 2017 was the year that tech became a lightning rod for dissatisfaction over everything from the last U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Random Acts of Shaqness has been wildly popular and helped change the nature of O'Neal's endorsement deals to include social media. In a race between the government, traditional media and Twitter to see who could disseminate important, useful information worldwide the quickest, Twitter wins. It's a truly open market of ideas.

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Technology Media Open-book Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Crowdfunding platforms and social media have changed the way many small businesses get started raising capital. This principle has led to a virtuous cycle of innovation that has driven our economy in previously unimaginable directions. They prevent broadband providers from getting in between a business and its customers online.

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