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When you can’t create a social object…

Rajesh Setty

Ability to flood the market via all channels (including social media) doesn’t help either because everyone else can do it too. Results were not surprising but the entire film on this topic became an Adjacent Social Object for Volkswagen. It’s well worth your time.

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business Review

Metric obsession. marketing team offered the same promotion to U.S. Yet, it tried to sell its digital cameras using the same business model as its film-based cameras – by aiming to make high margins on instant film sales. A little later, the U.S. customers in order to boost sales.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business Review

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Developing A Better Standard Of Marketing

Strategy Driven

Marketing is perhaps one of the most important elements to update within your business strategy from year to year. But how can you develop a better standard of marketing? With services such as Your Marketing People , all of this work can be expertly crafted and specialized, keeping you in the loop at all times.

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How to Ditch Marketing And Make Friends

Harvard Business Review

There''s a chasm widening between old school and new school marketers. This often results in CMOs retreating to their comfort zones and wasting money on what I call "studio-based" marketing channels, which still take their cue from the traditional awareness-consideration-action sales model that was debunked almost five years ago by McKinsey.

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Get the Maximum Value Out of Your Big Data Initiative

Harvard Business Review

In order to achieve this goal, many of the firms interviewed have established a new business metric for measuring the value of their Big Data initiatives — Time-to-Answer (TTA). These techniques and processes can be accelerated and democratized through the power of Big Data capabilities, so firms can reach key customer markets faster.