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Make Your Competition Irrelevant

Harvard Business Review

The problem is that incremental innovation and investments in marketing rarely change the market share structure. Every category has its own stories of innovators who created a league of their own, and bought themselves years and sometimes decades with no real competitor. What does a band relevance strategy demand of a company?

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How CMOs Build Brands by Collaborating Across Silos

Harvard Business Review

As a facilitator, the CMO group at Nestle operates centers of excellence around topics such as the Hispanic market, mom & kids, and Walmart which are shared across silos. Too often silos are constrained and fail to create brilliant offering or marketing innovations. Identify and leverage great ideas. Any others come to mind?

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