Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Jeffrey, I am a marketing and sales rep for a company that sells emergency cleanup services. It should be about how they were reluctant, about how they thought the kid next door could do it, about how they thought the price was too high, about how they thought they were ugly on film. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

An obvious solution is product placement, a company paying for its product to be featured prominently in a film or television program as a form of advertising. product placement market grew by 12.8% The trouble is that the huge success of product placement is causing a dip in its credibility and effectiveness as a marketing channel.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Disney’s existing contract to distribute Pixar films was slated to end in 2006 and Pixar had announced two years earlier it would not renew the arrangement.). Iger used the Pixar and Marvel purchases to convince George Lucas to sell them Lucasfilm (for about $4 billion) in 2012. It was a bold push towards the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

However, 48% of the mid-sized world market leaders come from Germany. The Munich-based Hidden Champion Arri, world market leader in professional film cameras, used the expertise of Fraunhofer to navigate the transition from analog to digital technology, and was thus able to defend its leading market position.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

To gain advantage on this leveled playing field, there’s one powerful branding tool that has been generally overlooked — or perhaps undervalued — by most marketers: sound. It was introduced with a film that drew the connection between the company’s heritage and its new position. SNCF’s Audio Logo, 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Entrants may target over-looked segments of the market with a product considered inferior by incumbent’s most-demanding customers and later move up-market as their product improves. Or, they may create markets where no market exists and turn non-consumers into consumers. It appealed to a niche of film nerds.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Ericsson used Lego Mindstorm robots in a demonstration at the 2012 Mobile World Congress to bring to life its vision of how connected machines might change the way we live. This is more than just a smart marketing campaign. Rather than publish another whitepaper on the topic, the company struck on a different communication tool: Legos.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. A misunderstood story. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. digital-camera sales (No.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

The truth is, AI is as “fully-automated” as the Great and Powerful Oz was in that famous scene from the classic film , where Dorothy and friends realize that the great wizard is simply a man manically pulling levers from behind a curtain. A hybrid of humans and AI is remaking retail, marketing, and customer service.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Michael Blake's 1988 book of the same name would be adapted into the 1990 Hollywood blockbuster western film directed, produced and starring Kevin Costner. As Dunbar immerses himself in the Sioux culture and people, they give him the name, "Dances With Wolves."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We’re all well aware of the fact that marketing is shifting from a landscape where marketers can utilize mass media to speak at consumers, to one where marketers are simply part of the crowd themselves. The bullhorn of radio, television, print and other one-way interruptive marketing approaches are quickly losing efficacy.

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Miles Anthony Smith

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It is expected to remain the religion with the most followers until at least 2050, according to a survey conducted by Pew Research Center in 2012. He wrote over 30 books, including The Space Trilogy , Mere Christianity , and the well-known Chronicles Of Narnia whose film adaptation was widely watched by both Christians and Non-Christians.

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Miles Anthony Smith

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It is expected to remain the religion with the most followers until at least 2050, according to a survey conducted by Pew Research Center in 2012. He wrote over 30 books, including The Space Trilogy , Mere Christianity , and the well-known Chronicles Of Narnia whose film adaptation was widely watched by both Christians and Non-Christians.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Feeling that he needed an experienced operating and marketing partner, the then 29-year-old Jobs lured Sculley to Apple with the now legendary pitch: "Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Not knowing the right market for NeXT computer. The company struggled from the start to find the right markets and customers.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. My analysis: The stock market looks primarily at profits…one small part (1%) of the business picture.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

It is estimated that they currently have about seven thousand of them (and Congress asked for about $5 billion worth of more drones in 2012). But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Napster, Amazon, and the Apple store have annihilated Tower Records and Musicland; digital cameras replaced film and then smartphones upended camera makers. But the questions of timing and scale are still the minds of Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

That is the finding of a survey (PDF) and series of follow-up interviews conducted by NewVantage Partners with C-level executives and function heads representing companies and government agencies during the second half of 2012. How are Fortune 500 companies going about realizing value from their Big Data initiatives?

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