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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. However, recent technological advancements and industry shifts have expanded and evolved this role significantly.

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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

Today, Nabob faces yet another challenge: finding its place in the quickly dilating coffee industry. 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 [industry] average recall was about 20%.

Brand 100
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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business Review

Optimizers make up the core of most established businesses — they’re skilled at enhancing and perfecting the existing business to drive growth or improve operations. Hive teams also have representatives from functions that might normally act as corporate antibodies, like legal, finance, HR, or compliance.