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Slow Decline of Eastman Kodak due to an Inability to Reinvent

Coaching Tip

The film giant gave us the "Kodak Moment," which persists as the quintessential photographic experience even though in today''s digital camera age "selfies" on smartphones are a major factor. That is why it has been so difficult to change Kodak''s corporate culture from film-based imaging to digital imaging. . Kodak Focus on Film.

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4 Effective Strategies For Improving Brand Reputation

Strategy Driven

This is a topic that gets a tremendous amount of media attention as it is a real cause for concern, so this could really boost your reputation – just be sure to document what steps you are taking to reduce your impact and share this online. In addition to doing your bit, this could help to reduce your operating costs, too.

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Personal Needs vs. Customer Relationships

Strategy Driven

After decades of formally documenting the stages of business-customer relationships, we’ve learned that many companies become complacent in their endeavor to understand, satisfy, and embrace the emotional needs of consumers. Some participants interacted with a version of the website that used exciting, amped-up marketing language.

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Young Talent Flourishes In The Ocean Discovery XPRIZE

The Horizons Tracker

The team, who were awarded the $1 million bonus prize during the awards ceremony in Monaco recently, have documented their experience in The Ocean Quest documentary. The data shows the the sons and daughters of high-status parents have many more advantages in the labor market than previous work believed. Providing a leg up.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. Consider Fuji Photo Film.

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Why No One Is Reading Your White Paper

Harvard Business Review

Marketing in a digital economy is more difficult now than it was in the days of mass media. Rather than paying to be sandwiched within ad breaks and between editorial pages, content marketing lets brands communicate directly with consumers. Marketers need to change their approach. Why do you need content?

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What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We used a topic-modeling algorithm that attempts to determine the topics in a set of text documents. It performs best at explaining the variability of the data in assigning words to topics and topics to documents, minimizing noise in the data. Or, they may create markets where no market exists and turn non-consumers into consumers.