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6 Factors That Can Impact Your Commercial Business

Strategy Driven

Understanding market trends requires thorough market research and analysis. It can involve studying consumer behavior, monitoring competitors, and staying informed about industry developments. It could involve investing in new product development, exploring new market segments, or adopting innovative marketing strategies.

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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Industry leaders were buoyant because advertising revenues continued to grow over the next couple of years. This post isn’t for you. Thought so.

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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others. This is the time to revisit the market spaces you occupy and position yourself to ride the uptick. Here are some steps you should take to build for 2014-2015: 1. Increase your R&D spending.

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Understanding Customers Is Everyone's Job

Harvard Business Review

Creating products and services for market segments of one (" mass customization ") isn''t easy. The only way it can happen: marketing, IT, operations, and human resources functions must collaborate in unprecedented ways. In a previous post , I described how U.K. How, precisely, did they do this?

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GDPR and the End of the Internet’s Grand Bargain

Harvard Business Review

GDPR also bears more than a hint of the kind of protectionism that has featured prominently in EU technology policy since the 2015 release of the plan for a “Digital Single Market,” including recent announcements of new taxes for U.S.-based based internet companies and continued antitrust complaints by EU regulators.

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If Your Mobile Strategy Can Win Here, It Can Win Anywhere

Harvard Business Review

But, possibly because it has such great potential for improving welfare, the developing world far outpaces the US in creating a system where mobile phones — marketed specifically to women — are truly essential tools. And these messages use strong market segmentation. It''s a delicate push.".