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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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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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The Main Thing: How to Keep Organizations Centered on What Matters Most

Leading Blog

Every successful business has, at its heart, a theory of the business—an underlying set of supporting objectives and a corporate philosophy that gives people a foundation on which to operate. Our good friend, Claude Roessiger has long experience with luxury brand management. Dr. George H.

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Poor Customer Service: The Writing is on the Wall

The Practical Leader

” He felt customer service was well ingrained throughout his operation. The company featured service in their marketing with convincing and clever branding, they had a customer service department, and they provided extensive service training to frontline staff. Most Brand Management is Misguided and Makes Things Worse.

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The Business Case for an Employee Communication App - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM STAFFBASE

Harvard Business Review

But investing in an internal communications strategy that leverages mobile app technology can play an integral role in reaching employees, connecting strategy with operations and helping companies thrive, according to new research by Staffbase. Enabling Middle Management Communication Improves Work.

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The Real Reasons Chinese Firms Have Weak Branding

Harvard Business Review

First, other global firms have a deep bench of seasoned brand strategist supported by rich and varied set of brand management systems and tools that are lacking in Chinese firms. Both are largely based on the brand management effort pioneered by P&G some 75 years ago and extended by the many P&G progeny.

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Make Physicians Full Partners in Accountable Care Organizations

Harvard Business Review

Physicians own and operate these medical groups and hold seats on the foundation’s governing body. Although the initial funding of the ACO may come from a hospital or insurance company, the ACO repays this investment by generating an operating margin. The medical group must be owned and operated by its physicians.