Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2013

” “How is Morgan following your passion for fashion?” Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. And most of the time, if you’re asking a negative-based question the customer will not give you a real answer. Don’t find the pain. Find the pleasure. Pleasure evokes positive emotion. All rights reserved.

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Open-book Customer Loyalty Seminar Price 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Penney’s recent announcement that it is resurrecting its print catalog reflects a trend of retailers returning to the print medium as an important sales and marketing tool. According to the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), catalog mailings grew in 2013 to 11.9

Retail 8

Retail Brand Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The index was constructed in the same fashion as other indexes that seek to isolate an industry sector (banking, biotech), geography (China), or size (large cap), for example. In Interbrand’s 2013 list of the World’s most valuable brands , Nike ranks 24 th , two slots up from the prior year and a 13% increase in value to $17.085 billion.

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The JP Morgan Chase board of directors has vexed the world with its terse announcement in a recent 8-K filing that CEO Jamie Dimon would receive a big pay raise — $20 million in total pay for 2013, up from $11.5 A legitimate case can be made for Dimon’s 2013 raise. million for 2012, a 74 percent increase.

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Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Today, the company does roughly $50 million in total sales, with the home market accounting for over 80% of them. Consolidation shrinks the market down, often to one remaining, integrated producer, who can still profit by serving a small group of legacy customers. That’s a healthy company. There is no paradox. cut of sales.

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Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

law has simply been no match for the bots, and the government is calling in reinforcements: it’s time for some good old-fashioned ingenuity. Commenters suggest the obvious – if you don’t know who’s calling, don’t pick up the phone, and eventually the robo-marketers will get the message.) In a move that some are calling incroyable!

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Telemarketing Pharmaceuticals Fashion Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When you find yourself thinking about old-fashioned, out-of-touch, hierarchical, siloed organizations, General Motors quickly comes to mind. She had “an ability with people” and a track record of bringing new models to market faster and at lower cost.

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Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

In a previous piece I discussed why some AR apps are destined to be forgotten as gimmicks, and what mistakes marketers should avoid when trying to deploy them. The application was one of the first marketing campaigns that allowed interaction with a digital model in real time. Aside from complex technological advances (e.g.,

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Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Back in 2013, a much-touted survey suggested that by 2020 — just over a year from now — a whopping 40% of the workforce would be so-called contingent workers, a number that would include contractors, temps and the self-employed. The size of the gig economy and how fast it’s growing also seem to be over-imagined at times.

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Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star.

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CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets. For example, when P&G was making its digital push in 2012 and 2013, it was already well ahead of most companies—and perhaps all of them—in the consumer products industry.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

HR Digest

AUGUST 4, 2020

Since its foundation in 2013, it has claimed a considerable user base and an excessive growth with its comprehensive yet homogenous design. It has been fashioned by placing benefits, payroll and HR access in a straightforward and accessible way. It also offers options to customize customer support from their team of experts. .

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Tools Management Software Compliance 98

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7 ZB by 2020.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

She identified her home country of Spain as a great market to port the model to. Furthermore, Blink Booking had to make the app available in multiple languages to draw in a European market. Minguela had observed the rapid success of the U.S.-based based Hotel Tonight , a last-minute online-booking service founded in 2010.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

The concepts of lifetime employment and generous employee benefits are seen as old-fashioned throwbacks to paternalism. When we were aiming to close a small chemical-dependency hospital in 2013, for example, we looked hard into unmet needs in the area. My own workplace is an example.

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Policies Chemicals Bond Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

and in its home market in the U.K. In the UK, Tesco lost the plot several times in recent years as they grew to double the market share of competitors like Sainsbury''s and Asda/WalMart. Toyota''s fiscal 2013 profits were more than four times its earnings in 2010, and three times 2012''s.

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Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In early 2013, when factory conditions in Bangladesh came to light , Nike cut ties to some suppliers whose factories were deemed unsafe—even at the expense of its margins and in the face of declining profitability relative to competitors. New leaders do not have to have their family name on the door to encourage social innovation.

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Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. There is tons of evidence, much of it compiled by the formulator of the efficient market hypothesis, Eugene Fama , that value investing works.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 12, 2016

Guest post from Michael Klassen : After three decades of working in marketing, I thought I had heard or read nearly every story of innovation and entrepreneurship out there. billion men’s accessory fashion industry. Then I uncovered a story of business invention and reinvention that nobody knew anything about. He received his Ph.D.

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Apparel Innovation Advertising Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It’s why brands invest heavily in marketing, pricing strategies, and store positioning to raise awareness, encourage engagement, and drive sales. ” App store research, which I collected in my book, Apponomics , reveals only 5% of apps accounted for 92% of downloads in 2013. million apps as of July 2015.

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Development Advertising Download Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. While it is easy to categorize business as in line with the free market and progressives as anti-market, the reality is far more nuanced.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

Whether it is a public company or not, every business should fashion an Annual Report. Some of the old ways really work better… and should not be dismissed just because they are old or some fashionable trend of the moment looks better. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Ideas make the future happen.

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Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 64

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

For many years, we will be measuring how loss of corporate credibility has tainted all facets of business, in terms of remediation, replacement, litigation, make-good, rework, damage control, recovery process, settlements to victims, decreased stock market value and sagging retail sales. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 60

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

I became him, after a fashion, since I am 65 now. I come in after the wrong consultants have given bad advice, after knee-jerk reactions to changing business climates had taken tolls on existing market players. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Colonel Harlan Sanders entered my life. He was 65.

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Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 66

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

What marketers seem to be missing is that Boomer women are actually outspending younger generations online — and not on the products that might come to mind when you picture the 50+ set. I began working in digital marketing to women when I was 22.

Marketing 8

Marketing Freedman Forrester Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. I met the band at this inflection point.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

And that will require old-fashioned, in-person persuasion. Searching the web or email will decline; already, the top five search engines saw traffic declines of up to 31% in a study done over the period December 2013 – May 2014. Find new growth markets – fast. Avoid the risks of a leader tasked with playing defense.

CEO 8

CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

You’d have this beta with the market, so you have the riskless rate plus beta times the equity premium. A mini-glossary: beta is the amount that an individual stock fluctuates relative to the overall stock market, and the equity premium is the difference in expected return between stocks and a “riskless” asset such as Treasury bonds.].

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

That’s the question marketing and e-commerce professionals need to answer now that Pinterest has announced it will soon offer “Buy” buttons to let users buy products directly within its app. Courtesy of Pinterest. Will buyable pins turn Pinterest into the web’s new shopping mecca?

Retail 8

Retail ROI Discount Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

As company that markets fashion apparel, accessories, and home goods (at its namesake stores as well via its other brands, like Anthropologie and Free People), it seems reasonable to think that the perspectives of women could be useful to its board.

Diversity 8

Diversity Proposal Apparel Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Super-specialized physicians learned how to attack disease in various organs systems, and fatalism has gone out of fashion. Lee’s essay “The Word that Shall Not Be Spoken” in the November 7, 2013 New England Journal of Medicine.). Compliance rates may be said to “suffer,” but not patients. See Thomas H.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Constraint System 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

According to a recent JPMorgan/GIIN report , impact investors invested nearly $11 billion across 4,900 deals in 2013, up 250% from 2011. In the 2013 class of Echoing Green Fellows , five of the 12 nonprofits earn revenue, and five of the seven for-profit companies have received donations. social entrepreneurs now have more options.

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Entrepreneur Apparel Transportation Fashion 10