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Planning an epic launch of your product- 7 steps to get it right

Strategy Driven

Another effective trick is collaborating with social media influencers and bloggers to create pre-event hype for your event. A selective guest list is carefully made including, brand ambassadors, celebrities, journalists, social media influencers, and vloggers. Give-Away Contests. Seek sponsors for the event.

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6 Omnichannel Support Strategies for Cleaning Companies

Strategy Driven

The main goal of an omnichannel strategy should be to positively influence the perception of the customers about your brand or services. Focusing on your customers requires that you not just include marketing in the business success formula for attracting customers but also include merchandising, social media support, and customer support.

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Breaking the Rules

You're Not the Boss of Me

They stifle creativity and innovation. As they often say in retail stores about handling merchandise, “ If you break it you own it”. If we are to encourage the innovators of our time we must also accept that rules should be subject to rigorous question and challenge.

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How Competition Is Driving AI’s Rapid Adoption

Harvard Business Review

Amazon, born 24 years ago, had captured about 45% of online retail commerce in the United States by 2017, but still stood for just about 5% of total US retail gross merchandise volume in that year. It took several decades for steam to drive the rollout of railways services and create a large market of exchanges in the United States.

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PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer on Creating an Organization Where Design Can Thrive

Harvard Business Review

Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer—the first to hold the position—where he oversees design-led innovation across all the company’s brands under CEO Indra Nooyi. That’s where our work is really about innovation. I strongly believe that design and innovation are exactly the same thing.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. At one American retailer, an autonomous ensemble of algorithms replaced the entire merchandising department. These distinct approaches enjoy demonstrable real-world success.

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Purpose is Good. Shared Purpose is Better

Harvard Business Review

They want to be a part of something; to belong; to influence; to engage. Nike : To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world. *"If Dunkin Donuts :> Make and serve the freshest, most delicious coffee and donuts quickly and courteously in modern, well-merchandised stores. They want it to be their purpose too.