Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2014

Post-presentation online surveys are a popular way to gauge audience reaction. Presentation survey forms are another method used to gain audience insight. But like online surveys, response rates are an issue. There is a way to find out what audiences are thinking in real time: Audience response technology.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

She emphasizes the role of AI as an enhancer of human capability, dispelling the notion of technology replacing human skills. Unlike management, which involves tactical decisions, leadership is about enabling and facilitating growth. Every leadership journey progresses from individual contributor, to manager, and then leader.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 30, 2019

Macro Demand Forecasting: The “big picture” demand forecasting technique that looks ahead at broader market conditions to help plan a business’s overarching strategies. Businesses use all kinds of tools and technologies to implement these methods, from relatively simple research surveys to complex data modeling tools.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

New technologies and socioeconomic trends are reshaping the retail marketplace. The IBM Institute for Business Value recently surveyed over 30,000 people in three mature and three growth markets to discover what consumers will want from retailers in the future.

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Resources Newsletter Retail Strategic Planning 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Goes With What It Knows: Making Stuff,” centers on how Immelt is leading the company away from financial services and “soft services” like broadcasting and back to its historical roots of technology driven manufacturing.   Seeing that clean energy was going to be a growth market, Immelt launched ecomagination in 2005. 

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Leadership How To Executive Coaching Blog 178

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Latin America is a modern marketer’s dream, and not just because of its size. It also has the fourth-largest mobile market in the world, with social media adoption even surpassing that of the United States. These sentiments are echoed by Andre Jensen, director at Agência Inbound , a marketing agency in Brazil.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Technology has exploded, giving us instant access to information and knowledge, and it all moves and changes so fast that some of what Boomers have learned during their careers may be obsolete. He has a marketing communications degree from Bradley University.

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How To Tacit Knowledge Intellectual Capital Newsletter 72

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

They pursued a variety of tactics before the recession that were designed to fortify the firm when the downturn hit – moves both within sales and beyond like adding a low-cost channel to serve small accounts or simplifying the product assortment. Digital tools can also open new go-to-market approaches. Zero-base sales capacity.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

The preliminary results of a survey of nearly 4,300 IT projects revealed that long project schedules increase risks across all project types, not only in software development projects. This simple tactic is seemingly backed up by the research. IT management Information & technology Technology' It''s C-Suite Problem.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

In fact, surveys over the years have regularly put fear of public speaking right up there with fear of heights, fear of insects, and even fear of death. Bill is responsible all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, content development, and the delivery of Communispond courses by certified faculty. Well, you’re not alone.

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Library Kaplan Newsletter Audience 70

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

And qualitative data, such as customer comments and user surveys, provide anecdotal information that helps you paint a more complete picture. He has a marketing communications degree from Bradley University. Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Comments 2 Responses to “The Boomers are Leaving!

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Your employees and your customers want to be engaged on a very personal level, and not just through a survey or an annual conference. Examples of Social Nations are everywhere.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

Ansoff's matrix clarified the notion that tactics should differ according to whether a firm was launching a new product, entering a new market, or both. Our version replaces Ansoff's binary choices of product and market (old versus new) with a range of values. The Innovation Ambition Matrix offers no inherent prescription.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Healthcare data is also highly prized on the black market because there are so many lucrative ways to use it fraudulently, so it’s often a more attractive target than financial or other personal data. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Test gamification tactics. Sponsored by Optum.

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Health Care Forrester Policies Tactics 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

We recently surveyed more than 2,000 hiring managers about their recruiting behaviors and tactics. According to the survey, 46 percent of employers exclude salary and wages from their job listings, and the idea that companies should disclose a projected salary range before the interview phase will be a nonstarter for many employers.

Company 8

Company Tactics Open-book Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

There is no doubt that these tactics will make a difference. They can then use the insights from this civic data to geotarget ads on career websites such as LinkedIn and Glassdoor, so these messages reach candidates in markets with fewer high-quality job opportunities. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Survey Industry Engineering Information 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

While most bosses would frown on playing Halo at the office, it’s video games that are driving much of the innovation in video, virtual reality, and collaboration technologies today—something that has important implications for how we work, especially with far-flung colleagues. Consider the implications just for remote workers.

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Technology Video Conference Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. On the contrary, many executives have made big technology bets but are now wondering why those investments haven’t yielded the kind of payoff they expected. Embracing data and analytics is not a tactic; it’s a transformation. Insight Center.

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Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2018

My manager and team practiced an egalitarian decision-making process in which we would meet, discuss everything from content marketing campaigns to social media tactics, and collectively come up with strategies to move forward with. Some years ago, at a former company, I began noticing a curious series of events.

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Management Diversity Collins Committee 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. Today, Weaver’s mass-mailing tactics seem quaintly out of date. Insight Center.

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Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

All of the tasks are important to managers when they’re hiring new employees, but one stands out above all others in the eyes of the business leaders we surveyed: delivering quality hires consistently. They generate insights contrasting workforce needs with the market supply of talent. That’s simply unacceptable.

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Class Benchmarking Quality Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2014

In the software industry, giants like Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM have all invested heavily in the cloud technologies that are disrupting software. Steve Blank often likes to point out that start-ups are entities formed to identify product-market fit. Instead of complaining, customers at the low end of the market can simply leave.

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Disruptive Innovation Airlines Tactics Tools 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 29, 2019

I have been speaking, teaching and consulting on marketing and branding for 30 years, and I began to notice a disturbing trend. And to be honest, it wasn’t hard to get people talking, and certain themes took shape very quickly: speed of service, restriction of access, rigidity of policies, complexity of technology, easy of process.

Competitive Advantage 83

Competitive Advantage Short-term Policies Open-book 83

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The survey reported that 99% of teachers “strongly agreed or agreed” with the statement that “teaching is more than academics; it is also about reinforcing good citizenship, resilience and social skills.”

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Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

65 Content Marketers List the 44 Content Marketing Agencies Crushing It (Plus 70 Tips & 78 Myths Dispelled) ​Digital marketing is becoming harder to ignore as we now live in a world of internet ubiquity. Click "READ MORE" to see the 44 content marketing agencies and 70 related tips from the experts!

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

When it comes to choosing media to support a new product launch, consider the target market. Schneider Associates 2014 Most Memorable New Product Launch survey found that each generation uses a unique media mix. Here are some tips brand and marketing managers can use to leverage converged media to their advantage: 1.

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Media Tactics Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Over the past 18 months, Sergey’s experience has been echoed in offices in Ukraine, South Africa, Turkey, Brazil, and many other emerging markets that have faced substantial currency depreciation due to the drop in commodity prices and the flow of capital to the U.S. Normally, MNCs raise prices in the emerging market, (e.g.,

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Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 68

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

In the world of marketing, brand anthropomorphism can be a powerful mechanism for connecting with consumers. It’s the tactic of giving brand symbols people-like characteristics: Think of Tony the Tiger and the Michelin Man. Consider advanced chatbots, like Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Microsoft’s Cortana.

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Brand Disintermediation Ethics Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

This victory for online technology wasn't a foregone conclusion. The criticisms leveled at online polls , especially before this election cycle, reminded me of many of the avoidance tactics I used to hear from companies that were afraid to embrace social media. Those voters you want to survey? Benchmarking against reality.

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Benchmarking Bottom-up Media Survey 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. by Hank Moore.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

This is a big transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. The marketing–sales relationship now tops the agenda of concerns in a survey of B2B executives.

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B2B AIDA AIDAS Disintermediation 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In contrast to startups, which often experiment until they gain their footing in the market, established businesses are notoriously slow to change. In order to adapt to a climate charged by automation, market shifts, and globalization, companies need to evolve to meet changing priorities and conditions. .” Final Thoughts.

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Agility Process Management McKinsey 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Without Strategic Planning, there is no benchmarking of specific tactics. In their marketing, accounting and auditing firms claim to be full-service business advisors, in order to get business. by Hank Moore. Any company or organization is like a tree.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57