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How an Online MBA in Marketing Can Help You Transition Into a Marketing Career

Strategy Driven

They also cultivate general business management abilities, including a solid understanding of economic trends and consumer behavior. They can work in advertising and public relations or various industries. You’ll study various marketing topics like consumer behavior, marketing analytics, and brand management.

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Modern CMOs: Bridging Creativity with Commercial Acumen

N2Growth Blog

The Evolving Role of the CMO Previously, a Chief Marketing Officer’s or CMO role mainly involved traditional marketing activities like brand management, public relations, and market research. Regular training and workshops on business models, finance, and market shifts can also significantly augment commercial acumen.

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How to Build a Brand | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The preceding description paints the perfect illustration of why branding is one of my favorite topics…It is complex. Unless you are a very large enterprise it is unlikely that you have the time, money, staffing, or external professional relationships to execute a brand management strategy such as the one outlined above.

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The Right Way to Use Analytics Isn’t for Planning

Harvard Business Review

Maybe a brand manager is moved to a different department, but little else changes – the same consultants are hired, the same “best practices” are pursued – and organization itself rarely actually learns. We must start to think differently about how business, management, and strategic intelligence works.

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Use a Brand Council to Help Steer Strategy

Harvard Business Review

A brand can’t just be a promise; it must be a promise delivered. And brand stewardship can no longer be under the exclusive purview of marketing departments and brand managers. Brands may drive communications activities, but little else. Brands may drive communications activities, but little else.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Frito-Lay has already made competition the cornerstone of its Super Bowl advertising , and Toyota , desperate to remind people what a wonderful corporate citizen it can be, invites aspiring innovators to suggest how the firm's technology can be used for good in unexpected ways. That's Quite A Coup, Onward Group!

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Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

Speciality coffee shops are competing with retail brands for consumers’ attention in the grocery aisle, new coffee formats are being introduced (such as single-cup brewing systems), and U.S. The change in management, which included Bell and Powell, meant a big change in how the company would operate in the following decades.

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