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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

Marketing mix. 6 Sigma Statistical tools to analyze Market data BCG matrix. Improvement and Innovation. 19) Celebrate innovation. Luciana Paulise is a business consultant and founder of Biztorming Training & Consulting. Customers. 1) Create constancy of purpose. Voice of the customer. Processes.

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Doing 'Different' Right: Ten Big-Time Difference Makers and How.

Strategy Driven

Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild! With all the noise in your clients’ and potential clients’ daily lives, it certainly hasn’t become any easier to attract attention and appeal to your target market. Do what works!

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How Good Designers Think

Harvard Business Review

Since reading that I've often pondered the subject and today, I find it helpful to look at my experience of how good designers think (and do) at each stage of the innovation process: insights, inspiration, and action. Good designers can act as a translator between functional silos as different as supply chain, marketing and R&D.

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Why Marketing Needs to Hire a Corporate Folklorist

Harvard Business Review

Given the skills and span of responsibility required, this function should sit in the marketing department. And, of course, marketing is in the best position to integrate the stories into a holistic content management strategy for the organization. The problem is, organizations’ stories are usually scattered far and wide.

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Great Advertising Is Both Local and Global

Harvard Business Review

Successful global advertising concepts, as demonstrated by the EffectiveBrands consultancy's Leading Global Brands project, start with a simple but powerful idea: they address a universal human motivation that crosses cultures. Coca-Cola has similarly embraced the glocal model.