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What the Marketing Agency of the Future Will Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

It's a murky, unclear future for the marketing agency, but one thing is for certain: things are changing at an exponential pace. An agency used to act as the executional arm of the marketing department. For over twenty years, I have had a front row seat to this revolution in marketing. How does an agency stay ahead of the curve?

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How Big Companies Should Innovate

Harvard Business Review

So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? If they'd been able to pay the same amount for different packaging on the open market, what would the outcome have been? Free access to salespeople, manufacturing capacity and marketing dollars all can inhibit the generation of sustainable business models.