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The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service

Strategy Driven

The proliferation of self-service (while a blessing when it works) has made customers more frustrated when they feel trapped in a process with no live person to help. And the Internet, with its social media reach, has empowered customers with strong influence over other customers and the reputation of companies.

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The Twitter you may not know. But should.

Strategy Driven

Twitter is intended for you to inform with value, influence, brand, and (on occasion) to converse or respond, not chit-chat. In less than two hours I had 9 new followers, and 43 re-tweets or favorites that reached (influenced) MORE than 75,000 people. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Here are 3.5

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. Nike embedded sustainability into its innovation process and created the $1 billion-plus Flyknit line, which uses a specialized yarn system, requiring minimal labor and generating large profit margins.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership.

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