Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In consumer business strategy – from branding to product development – addressing the emotional human needs continuum is crucial to success. By developing autonomy, children boost self-esteem. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. No longer was Universal just the more exciting cousin of Disney.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

The waterfall methodology was a classic approach used for software development. In 2013, the Marketing Sherpa B2B Analytics Study revealed that 63% do nothing or occasionally leverage data to gain any insight. Jeff has been dedicated to the advertising and marketing community for over twenty years. What are you thinking?

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Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Generating over $80 billion in sales in 2013, Amazon’s business model, with its ability to capture growth through disruption of retail stores, has proven to be very successful. Alibaba is not only a very successful disruptive company in China but also brings to the table a completely different business model than Amazon’s.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

In the Fall of 2012, shortly before the most well-known creativity index in Germany was about to be published ( Manager Magazine Kreativ Index ), two leading advertising agencies in Germany, Jung von Matt and Scholz & Friends , announced that they would not participate in any creative or advertising award competitions in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Most of the features will be incorporated into Outlook 2013 and Outlook Web for Office 365, with more partnerships likely to come. Many successful platforms today have experienced this product-to-platform transition. Similarly, Google started with a search engine and then introduced search advertising to connect advertisers to users.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Becoming Magnetic and attracting business, truly is an art, rather than a science, because every business is different, and uses a unique combination of strategy, people, and purpose to achieve success and growth. . If word-of-mouth is so vital to the success of a business, why are so many dollars spent on marketing and advertising?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The launch of Pokémon Go this summer was a huge success—both for the gaming industry and for Augmented Reality (AR). But it is just as important to ask: What has contributed to AR’s increasing success? This growing presence of AR results from a long trajectory of development that has been full of hits and misses.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Some, like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, are habits gained more recently thanks to the power of consumer goods advertising. Across all kinds of platforms, individuals from nonprofit development staff to celebrities to CEOs helped spread this compelling idea. The second #GivingTuesday will happen on December 3, 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

As Johnson had described it in much more depth in a Time cover story a few months before, what made Twitter so promising and interesting and important was “the fact that many of its core features and applications have been developed by people who are not on the Twitter payroll.” billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Data promises a lot of new value, from insights that lead to better-targeted advertising, to ideas for new products, to "this changes everything" discoveries — the "expensive" half of Brand's observations. The key lies in developing and exploiting "proprietary data" — data that you and you alone possess.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 12, 2016

Today, Nancy co-owns (with another well-known hippie, Chuck Kesey) Nancy’s Yogurt which made $20 million in 2010 and is responsible for shaping a yogurt and probiotic market in the US that had grown to over $20 billion by 2013. Second, hippie businesspeople were sticklers for detail.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

Samir Husni, Director of the Magazine Innovation Center, also points out that in recent years publishers have taken concepts from other media platforms, like All Recipes , HGTV , and Food Network , and turned them into successful print brands. Last year, News Corp’s newspaper division reported EBITDA of $795 million on $6.7

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Advertising, often a barometer of social norms, used to feature wealthy people relaxing by the pool or on a yacht (e.g., In other words, the more we believe that one has the opportunity for success based on hard work, the more we tend to think that people who skip leisure and work all the time are of higher standing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

and transplanting it somewhere else, particularly in a developing country. Minguela had observed the rapid success of the U.S.-based Second, she needed to convince local residents to sign up, usually through tailored advertising campaigns and direct appeals. What do I mean by nondigital components?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

For developers, that may be Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site specifically for programmers. ” The company was already developing content, targeted specifically at recruits, that demonstrated its “culture and the type of company we want to be in 1, 5, and 10 years.” So venture out. physicians are members of.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

Business development. In 1959, radio stations used to do live remotes from advertisers’ locations. One resulting project was ‘KFC Kalendar,’ an advertising campaign that showcased community events and public service announcements to diverse communities. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2013

If a campaign has a presence on every social network in the known universe, with custom widgets that all connect to each other, then its success is just a matter of turning a key and watching the crowd swarm. Our company, Mischievious Studios, recently joined the short list of ad agencies that have experienced true viral success.

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Marketing Video Content Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

In Q2 2013, mobile revenue per 1K listener hours was $34, up 50% from $22 in 2012. Pandora recently capped free listeners at 40 hours per month (since 80% of listener hours are on smartphones) to stem losses until mobile advertising reaches similar margins to desktop. Develop a simple audio ad production product.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

A quick scan of recent company financials reveals that 90% of the revenues of the entire enterprise, all of which used to be known as Google, came selling advertising — the core business that Pichai will now run. Second, his philosophy on products includes the principle of serving the ecosystem of users and developers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

In 2012 and 2013, not only did our speaker rosters comprise more than 50% women and people of color, but the number of conference attendees doubled each year. Our conference in December 2013 had roughly 43% as many speakers as Davos does this month, but these ideas apply to events of any size. Be deeply transparent. Have a farm system.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Congress, however, wisely left the internet out of that experiment , letting fixed and mobile broadband access markets to develop largely on their own. This has helped contribute to the development of innovative Internet-based businesses , where 11 of the top 15 Internet businesses, most started in the last decade, are U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

Companies are vacuuming up data to make better decisions about everything from product development and advertising to hiring. For more on what analytics can be used for, read Thomas Davenport’s 2013 HBR article Analytics 3.0. For more on running successful experiments, try these two articles. Why data matters.

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Management Metrics Information Technology Analysis 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

Throughout the world, it has become a proxy for success and for failure. government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. The Kingdom of Bhutan was the first — and still the only — country to reject GDP as its primary measure and instead developed a Gross National Happiness index.

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GDP Education Industry Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

According to a 2013 survey by Nielsen, "Nearly 60% of women use Facebook/access Facebook multiple times a day on their device/computer compared to approximately 45% of men." Utility, customization, and segmentation are key to the success of mobile marketing to women in the developing world.

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Strategy Marketing Market Segmentation Learning-by-Doing 9

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Extended many energy and business credits and incentives, such as the Research & Development credit. Review your investment portfolio to identify certain appreciated positions to sell now before taxes potentially increase in 2013. Extends unemployment insurance coverage through 2011. Stay tuned for more excitement!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Academics and practitioners have built on Christensen's work to develop robust frameworks that can help leaders to spot disruptive developments early and respond appropriately. Sifting through this work highlights three seminal moments in any disruptive innovation's development: Conception. 3-D printing. The Internet of Things.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Some observers suggest deeper changes to the platform: making the experience much more user friendly, developing better algorithms for surfacing interesting content, or improving search functionalities. Meanwhile, Twitter had only 33 million users in India in 2013. Now, Twitter should turn that accidental success into strategy.

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Advertising Strategy Marketing Globalization 9

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Most companies—especially the 75 percent of all US companies with less than $1 million in annual revenues—will never be able to invest enough into research and development to deliver a revolutionary innovation based on technology, except through dumb luck. I like to ask leaders to consider how they’d actually treat a business partner.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Two developments bear noting.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

The successful ones have, at least. Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. And such efforts should be advertised. Globalization’s Winners and Losers.

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