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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

That doesn’t mean you can’t make mistakes, for sure it will be hard to build a perfect product. But you need to define the basics right: be organized, collect the right information on time, and improve your product and services in a lean way. Leadership. Marketing mix. Improvement and Innovation. Customers.

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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. Think about what people dislike most about your industry, service, or product offering.

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Put Your New Business Model to the Test

Harvard Business Review

When a consumer product company wants to know how a new product or new marketing campaign will perform, it doesn't rely solely on traditional market research surveys. It goes to test markets. It also provides the test bed for optimizing the marketing mix to support the full-scale launch.

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CMOs and CEOs Can Work Better Together

Harvard Business Review

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

The most disruptive, unforeseen, and just plain awesome breakthroughs, that reimagine, reinvent, and reconceive a product, a company, a market, an industry, or perhaps even an entire economy rarely come from the single-minded pursuit of the busier and busier busywork of "business." So throw Frederick W. After "what", ask "which."