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After a Merger, Don’t Let “Us vs. Them” Thinking Ruin the Company

Harvard Business Review

Consider this example: When The Interpublic Group (IPG) merged the direct-marketing company Draft with the ad-agency Foote Cone & Belding (FCB) to become one agency in 2006, “it was immediately apparent that the cultures of the two agencies were wildly different,” shared Marty Stock, then head of Coors advertising at FCB.

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The Big Picture of Business: Corporate Communications – Correctly Positioning Your Company

Strategy Driven

This holds for corporate operating units and departments. You must always educate corporate opinion makers on how you function… and the skill with which you operate. Operating units and departments must schedule and follow a program to market their worth to their companies. Marketing Program. Sales support.

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The Big Picture of Business: Institutional Reviews Help Public Companies to Learn from the Downturn and Move Forward

Strategy Driven

There is a sense that company operations are out of control. Branch 5: Sales strategy, sales training, marketing strategy, customer service, advertising, direct marketing, public relations, special events, video production, promotional specialties, graphic design-production and website design-production.

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What Really is The Big Picture of Business

Strategy Driven

Pressures continue and accelerate for companies to stay in operation, become competitive, keep ahead of the marketplace and perform quality work. There is a sense that company operations are out of control. Advertising is a process, part of marketing and a cousin of sales. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.