Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Smartphones, smart TVs and watches have become the in-thing and trend among the young and the old. This is an impeccable digital marketing strategy that has worked miracles for many businesses. Using your smart TV app, you can undertake digital marketing opportunities such as video calling and reach out to your suppliers and customers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The evolution of African markets faces significant barriers: cost, distance, and a lack of infrastructure. consumers are just being introduced to Apple Pay, mobile money services like MPesa and MTN Money have been flourishing in African markets. These trends are not limited to customers. Finance Global business Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

The original IT department was formed to centralize a unique expertise that could purchase, implement, and manage technology in the enterprise. Competitiveness in IT will come from connecting employees and partners in meaningful ways to bring products to market faster (how does a supply chain process shrink from days to minutes?),

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Both these trends support the notion that the costs of successful business model innovation are rising over time. An example: delivering paid sports content over a 4G network with segmented advertising that is both location-dependent and paid for through betting is a breakthrough idea yet to be delivered in any market.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

The old way was information management; the new way is information intelligence. The old way was IT systems management; the new way is platforms that enable new value chains and integrated ecosystems. The old way was cost management; the new way is driving business transformation and accelerating growth. IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Talent Management. AT&T, for example, had to switch its focus from traditional telecom services to wireless services, and this shift required employees with different skill sets. So the challenge was to have the broad marketing strategies with local adaptations.” Operating in a Global Marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. This is not guesswork.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. For example, AT&T had to spend almost $18 billion in a single year to upgrade its wireless networks to handle the onslaught of new traffic. The vendors for telecom network management were paid only for the capacity utilized by Bharti Airtel, not for the equipment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

And yet recent trends are proving that their best just isn't good enough. To combat these pressing issues, a number of hospitals across the United States are trying new approaches to managing their complexity — and with their progress a new paradigm for hospital management may be taking shape.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

There are three trends are behind this shift: The ease of innovation and its decreasing cost mean that start-ups now face the same short-term pressures that have constrained innovation at large companies. Medtronic used business model innovation to enter markets formerly out of its reach.

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Women on Business

MARCH 18, 2013

Guest Post by Elizabeth Dillon of Digital Marketing NOW (Learn more about Elizabeth at the end of this post). If not, you could be throwing away significant money on ineffective marketing initiatives. To maximize your marketing and, ultimately, your revenue, you must understand your customer’s lifetime value (CLV).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Managers at companies like General Motors, Sears, and Eastman Kodak simply didn't have the tools to spot and respond to would-be disruptors. When a disruptive idea is first born, typically far away from the market's mainstream. A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. 3-D printing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Huawei’s revenue from overseas markets exceeded that from the Chinese market for the first time in 2005. For example, when Huawei expanded their 3G market in Europe, they noticed that European carriers expected base stations to be more compact, easier to install, greener, and more energy efficient, while offering wider coverage.

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