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B2B versus B2C Marketing Adjustments

Coaching Tip

For instance, let’s look at branding and positioning. The image of the Coke brand, for me as the customer, is defined entirely by the advertising, package design, and my experience with the taste. I have no personal relationship or connection with the organization itself, and yet I am entirely loyal to that brand.

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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business

Women on Business

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9% in the prior year). One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g.,

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IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)

Harvard Business Review

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys.

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The Real Power of Enterprise Social Media Platforms

Harvard Business Review

For completely understandable reasons, enterprise social media tools and platforms like Yammer, Chatter, Jive and Sharepoint have been branded as great ways to communicate, engage, collaborate, coordinate, update and share information. Are We Asking Too Much of Our CIOs? Why Can''t a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Patents, trademarks, brands, data, and software (IP) are proprietary assets creating differentiation. But traditional brands like Best Buy , Citi , Walgreens and Kaiser Permanente are also opening up access to create data-driven ecosystems. Intellectual capital. But we are moving toward more-networked forms of currency.