Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 14, 2015

Today, despite an easily predictable decline in retail sales, economists did not see the decline coming. Instead, Huge Miss in Retail Sales Seen as a Blip. For January 2015, this seasonal factor will boost sales by the largest factor since 2006," said Dwyer. Heck, it might even be over (it''s happened before).

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Tom Spencer

MAY 18, 2019

These asset classes can include public equities/stocks, fixed income/bonds, money markets, commodities, infrastructure, real estate and alternative strategies – including hedge funds, private equity and venture capital. Asset management can be broadly divided into retail and institutional asset managers depending on whose money they handle.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MAY 19, 2023

Sales can take place long before the actual sale happens : You can also lose a renewal or a sale before you even realize it. You achieve this with: Brand building Showing the impact on sales/relationships from having tickets. Is that what your market wants or needs? Join the ‘Talking Tickets’ Slack Channel.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 25, 2019

There are a couple of reasons for this: Asset managers can see cash flow and earnings fluctuate wildly with markets. If there is a financial crisis, the stock market falls by half and the asset manager’s performance is in line with the stock market, they now make $500 million. Valuation of Asset Management Firms.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The news is part of a larger trend of closings that some are calling the retail apocalypse. The rise of e-commerce, combined with a shift in consumer preference toward dining out over shopping and with years of overbuilding , has made for distinctly unattractive economics in traditional retail. billion purchase of Whole Foods.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2018

Today, good marketing relies on having detailed and accurate customer data. The potential to conduct effective data-driven marketing with these augmented databases is enormous. Data-Driven Marketing. Consider the example shown in the exhibit below, where two retailers enter a second-party data sharing partnership.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Think hard before blindly committing to another sales pitch. Looking at one metric for gauging customer advocacy, the Net Promoter Score, promoters are worth nearly three to seven times more in lifetime value than detractors, depending on the market. You have earned the right to ask them for another sale. Not so fast.

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Harvard Business

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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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. Yet, according to recent consumer research from Kantar Retail, 71% of consumers now claim that loyalty incentive-programs don’t make them loyal at all. CVS Pharmacy, the retail pharmacy of CVS Health, offers another example.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The lack of narrative is particularly a problem in the relationship between sales and marketing. This behavior is a result of the underlying mental models of sales and marketing. Marketers see the world as campaigns, messages, channels, and audiences. To a marketer, sales is a channel for reaching their audience.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

Time is running out on personalized marketing as a means of continually raising the return on investment of campaigns. And the technology now exists for marketers to test with high confidence when to communicate and in what order — and to do so in near real time. How Leading Marketers Get Time on Their Side.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. This combination creates a natural barrier to entry and has likely caused marketers to take a “wait and see” approach.

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Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

After the sale, Thomae was on vacation in her native Australia, where she tried a yogurt unlike anything she had ever tasted. After generations in which large consumer package goods companies (CPG) dominated the conventional retail landscape, now smaller companies are experiencing success. How can this be?

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Tom Spencer

JULY 16, 2015

It can help to assess the business situation in the context of entering a new market, M&A, product development, and starting a new business. How big is the market? How fast is the market growing? What is the concentration of customers in the market relative to the concentration of firms? What is its market share?

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 17, 2016

A well-designed organization structure brings management attention to the nodes where value and capabilities are created—the intersection of customers, brands, products, emerging markets, functional expertise, and other strategic choices. Often, rewarded complexity is a result of making things simpler or more compelling for customers.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Last week Google announced that , in an effort to bridge the “online ad–offline purchase” gap, it will begin to connect online ad exposure to brick-and-mortar sales. Retail e-commerce accounted for about 8.5% This is a problem for Google, which wants to convince marketers that online ads are effective.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

Therefore his mental model was not how to gain market share from other airlines, but how to create a completely new market for air travel. ” Beyond the usual financial metrics, JetBlue also measures the strength of its culture and the quality of its experience. For example, most retailers are merchants using technology.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. So for a compensation committee to justify a new metric, it needs to have a strong business case. had a diversity metric.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

You know, those same disruptive forces redefining all sectors from manufacturing and retail to healthcare and tech. Below, we’ll dig into these market forces and what they mean for professional services firms moving forward. The forces transforming today’s professional services landscape are familiar ones.

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Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. Thus, the term “customer” can mean a potential buyer to the marketing department, the person who signed the purchase order to sales, and the legal entity that it bills to accounting. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2016

A recent CMO Survey indicates that marketers plan to double their spending on social media in the next five years. This disparity highlights an important, and potentially costly, problem: Marketers continue to increase social media spending, yet many are still uncertain about management, strategies, and integration.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Identify the right metrics that “move the needle.” For a high-performing retailer, we found that customer retention, product availability, labor scheduling, product assortment, and employee engagement were all leading indicators to driving growth and profitability for the company. Make collaborative decisions.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

Measuring Marketing Insights. Companies deploying emotional-connection-based strategies and metrics to design, prioritize, and measure the customer experience find that increasing customers’ emotional connection drives significant improvements in financial outcomes. Insight Center. Sponsored by Google Analytics 360 Suite.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” Finally, the CMO began insisting that marketing deliver greater financial accountability.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

In today’s market, tech platforms enable IP and relationships to scale rapidly, and at near-zero cost. This will require reporting on new metrics. Manufacturers invest most of their capital into physical assets, while high-tech firms invest in R&D to create new intellectual capital.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Our publicly available metrics including CEO approval ratings from staff, ratio of women on boards, and number of accounting infractions and scandals. This year we added a carbon metric. These and other small gestures have been credited with goosing sales by 23% compared to dealerships that did not adopt the empathy program.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

The best business decisions are never ones of strategy, sales, or marketing. Instead, Jane’s successes are attributed to things like product decisions: Release of New Phone Drives Sales at Doe Industries. A former waiter or retail delivery person fit the bill much better than an education bureaucrat.

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1 to 1

JUNE 11, 2013

Marketing Research Articles. Sales Effectiveness. Mobile Marketing. Sales Effectiveness. Marketing by Permission! Marketing Blog. Sales & Marketing Effectiveness. I look to 1to1 Media and its partners as a trusted source of information on integrated marketing trends. Back towww.1to1media.com.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Though not as aggressive, creative or flamboyant as MBB or perhaps even its Big 4 competitors, KPMG is a huge force in the consulting market and not one to be taken lightly. Butler, the new CEO of the US arm, indicated he would strengthen its consultancy services, a market he saw as filled with potential, and offer new services.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. So when I asked Mark Krolick—managing director of marketing and product development at United Airlines—about the hypothesis that having more superconsumers as leaders or employees enhances business performance, he smiled. Sales & Marketing Adapted from.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

The ultimate goal is to signal to the market that the digital acquisition is part of a series of moves that will help you adapt and win in the digitalization of your industry. times Vormetric’s sales. The acquisition communicated to the market that Thales was shifting its financial profile to the high-growth business.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. But in the last two contests in which Hillary Clinton has participated, the 2008 primary and the 2016 election, she won on most of these metrics — and lost the elections. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Expectations matter.

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes. A subsequent milestone might be delivering $10 billion in sales of the new product or service.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2018

Their relative value is remarkable across a variety of metrics, such as purchases and frequency of use. Second, it offered marketing tools and discounts to the ecosystems of avid cyclists — retailers, clubs, and teams. How to Identify and Create the Emotional Layer. metropolitan areas.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

The EU’s case asserts, among other things, that Google unfairly exploits its dominance in search engines and smartphone operating systems to restrict competition in shopping services, ad placement services, and smartphone app store markets. The coming battle in antitrust will not be about controlling markets in the traditional sense.

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