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Twelve Ways to Create Barriers to Competitors

Harvard Business Review

Proprietary technology. Diamond's (formerly P&G's) Pringles, Prius' Hybrid Synergy Drive, and Dreyer's Slow Churned Ice Cream all have technologies not easily copied. David Aaker is the Vice-Chairman of Prophet and the author of Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant and the davidaaker.com blog on branding.

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How to Use Social Media to Drive Social Change

Leading Blog

The Dragonfly Effect by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith, is a playbook on how to use social media to achieve a single, focused, concrete goal. In moving forward, you must be cognizant of where the true power of social technology lies: not in the technology itself but in the people who use it. Social Media.

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How CMOs Build Brands by Collaborating Across Silos

Harvard Business Review

For over a decade Seagate Technology has hosted the ultimate team-building experience — Eco Seagate — where 200 Seagate employees gather in New Zealand's South Island for a weeklong team-building experience. In fact team building can be the primary objective. The five suggestions all have been shown to advance these objectives.

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