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Social Media for CEOs

N2Growth Blog

Nary a week passes where I don’t hear from a CEO who’s grappling with this social media conundrum: should I, or shouldn’t I? In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on why it’s time to put a fork in the social media debate… Background/Disclaimer. The Truth (as I see it).

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Will Social Media feature as part of your communications toolkit in 2012?

Chartered Management Institute

But how are you going to leverage Social Media to improve sales, communicate that key message or get yourself a new job in the coming year? Companies are doing it, Government is doing it and so is the community and voluntary sector as well as individuals. You are not watching this post, click to start watching.

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Keeping Tabs on the Competition as a Start-Up

Harvard Business Review

Big companies have it easy when it comes to gathering and utilizing competitive intelligence. To make this data useful, designate someone at the company to take control of competitive intelligence. If you make competitive intelligence everyone’s responsibility, it will be forgotten. Use social media.

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How a Food-Ordering App Broke into a Crowded Market

Harvard Business Review

Go after “undesirable” media. Mainstream media outlets began to cover the ads, and the company. That’s the “secret” of successful strategies and the essence of competitive intelligence. To small restaurants with tight cash flow, these gestures meant the world. The real lesson here is basic.

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How to Actually Put Your Marketing Data to Use

Harvard Business Review

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

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Viral By Design: Teams in the Networked World

Harvard Business Review

Everyone and everything is connected or soon will be by social media, on mobile platforms, and in the cloud. Now you can line them all up, from social media, consumer insights, competitive intelligence, marketplace measurement, sales, and distribution. Achieving those effects is no accident. The Invisible Children, Inc.

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Are Apple’s Patent Wars a Marketing Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

The opening statements by Apple’s lawyer, Harold McElhinny, alleging that “Samsung copied the iPhone” and that “Samsung went far beyond the world of competitive intelligence and crossed into the dark side” were translated in a multitude of languages and displayed next to pictures of Steve Jobs, one of the most charismatic CEOs of all time.