Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JANUARY 23, 2023

In 2015, I wrote a blog post on LinkedIn with the witty name: “Let’s Put This Bluntly: Discounts are For Dummies!” Your brand ain’t strong: Price is a signal to the market that you either have your act together and have built a strong brand or if you are discounting that your brand is weak. What does a discount say about you?

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Kai Davis

JANUARY 3, 2023

9/15 of my paid products/books/courses are retiring. I’ll be here sharing marketing, growth, and entrepreneurship tips, advice, and stories until they pry my Ono-Sendai keyboard out of my hands. Behind the scenes, I’ve been working on marketing and strategy for kai davis dot com in advance of a Q1/Q2 marketing push.

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BCG

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The domestic car market rebounded strongly after the global financial crisis to become the sixth-­­largest in the world—2.6 Manufacturers responded by building new plants to expand production. In 2015, the industry sold just 1.5 We analyzed the factors affecting Russia’s automotive market and developed three potential scenarios.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2018

Product expansion is often used as a path to growth, but it can have unintended consequences for other aspects of the business — including the customer experience central to the company’s value proposition. PayPal, the electronic payments giant, found itself at a crossroads in 2015.

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Henman Performance Executive

JANUARY 7, 2015

Product tampering. Which operations people, legal minds, marketing professionals, and public relations experts will need to participate? The post No Practice Bleeding in 2015 appeared first on Henman Performance Group. The nature of your business will determine your risks, but some universal perils exist: Natural disasters.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Feedback on social media can serve as a valuable source of information for companies, helping them to improve and develop products and services. Anecdotes aside, does this user feedback actually help create better products? Maxime Ge/Getty Images. In our study , we analyze the role that Facebook plays in the innovation process.

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MishTalk

MAY 6, 2015

Today's BLS release on Productivity and Cos ts shows a back-to-back decline in productivity accompanied with rising wages. Productivity is up year-over year, but barely, at 0.6%. Nonfarm business sector labor productivity decreased at a 1.9 percent annual rate during the first quarter of 2015, the U.S.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. The economy is doing well despite Germany’s accommodation of more than 1 million refugees since 2015. Analysts criticized the country’s labor market institutions as particularly inflexible.

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Tsavo Neal

AUGUST 21, 2020

The best theme on the market for consultants is X Theme by Themeco. X Theme is the perfect theme for creating effective digital marketing materials for consultants. Here’s the resume format I used to earn my first job in tech as a product manager in 20 days — as a History major, nonetheless! EXPERIENCE.

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Women in Consulting

JULY 25, 2013

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MishTalk

APRIL 18, 2015

You are more productive than ever. In March, Caixin, a Chinese business magazine, reported that Midea, a major Chinese manufacturer of air-conditioners and other appliances, plans to cut 6,000 of its 30,000 workers in 2015 to make way for automation. Congratulations. Just don''t expect to be paid more for it.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. market alone, companies are losing $1 trillion in annual revenues to their competitors because they are not consistently relevant enough. Pride: Customers feel proud and inspired to use the company’s products and services.

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Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. Emerging-market data can be challenging to work with due to significant data gaps, biased data, and outdated or incorrect numbers. Of course, these issues can cause a headache for any company, in any market.

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1 to 1

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Disruption in business involves having the ability to sense changes occurring in technology, customer behaviors, and product demands and being able to evolve quickly and implement plans outside the norm for long-term survival. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 15, 2016

Not only was December industrial production an awful -0.4%, November was revised lower from -0.6% The Econoday Consensus Estimates for industrial production and manufacturing were -0.2% December was not a good month for the industrial economy as industrial production fell a sharper-than-expected 0.4 respectively.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 24, 2023

The proven benefits of innovation include: increased competitive advantage improved operational productivity reduced costs and increased revenue improved commercial value enhanced problem-solving One modern innovation that is impressive to watch is SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 (watch the video below). million per launch. References: Beswick, C.,

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MishTalk

JUNE 4, 2015

Economists overestimated Q1 productivity and underestimated Q1 unit labor costs in spite of blaming the weather and the port strike as transitory weakness. Let's take a look at Bloomberg Consensus Estimates for Productivity and Costs. The grinding halt that the economy came to the first quarter pulled nonfarm productivity down by 3.1

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MishTalk

JANUARY 31, 2015

The Canadian dollar plunged below 79 cents US today after data showed Canada’s gross domestic product contracted in November as manufacturing dropped the most since January 2009 and on declines in mining and oil and gas extraction. On Friday, the Financial Post reported Canada GDP Shrinks on Biggest Factory Drop in Six Years.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets. While both the size of the market and its growth rate are both large, so is its carbon footprint. The Aviation Market. Ever since the Wright Brother’s famous first flight in 1903, the aviation market has gone nowhere but up. per year over the same period.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

To them, the unit of differentiation is an individual product, service or brand. The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. Consider, for example, the way many credit cards are marketed.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2018

According to Constellation Research , businesses across all sectors will spend more than $100 billion per year on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies by 2025, up from a mere $2 billion in 2015. The marketing industry will be no exception. Data-Driven Marketing. Using AI in Marketing. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

My aim here is to explore — and reject — a common explanation for the success of Star Wars, and of businesses, products, and ideas in general. The explanation is that what matters is the relationship between culture and the product at the time it is released. What you need is cultural resonance.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2017

Our products work with apps or without apps. In 2012, an estimate of a trillion internet-connected devices (by 2015!) What Customers Actually Did With Smart Products. Our residential products don’t require an app to do their job; instead, they come with a variety of control options, an app among them.

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The Fearless Marketer

APRIL 23, 2018

Since mid 2015, I believe the top destructive addictive habit for many Amercians has been following national political news. Your involvement in political news takes you away from more productive and rewarding life activities (not to mention moving your business and marketing forward). It was a simple and easy switch, actually.

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MishTalk

APRIL 15, 2015

The string of good news in industrial production snapped at one month. The Fed''s Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization report shows Industrial production decreased 0.6 For the first quarter of 2015 as a whole, industrial production declined at an annual rate of 1.0 percent in March after increasing 0.1

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Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

The economic recovery of 2010-2015 has triggered a number of high-profile mergers, but even more break-ups and spin-offs among large global companies, particularly those based in the US. GOMs are typically composed of three dimensions: Geographic market units (regions, countries, or country clusters). Greg Kesler and Amy Kates.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Persuading consumers to pay more for a product by introducing some kind of “premium” element into it has always been a challenging task—but it was one that big, established brands had managed with a reasonable amount of success until recent years. Smaller brands have been picking up the slack.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In fact, wearable technology is becoming an increasingly popular trend with 50 million wearable devices shipped in 2015 and an expected shipment of 125 million devices in 2019. Every business is looking for ways to continually improve the productivity of its employees. Productivity of employees is also connected to their health.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018. The call center logs customer complaints. Or as Intel Corp.’s

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Women in Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2014

As of last year, 93% of senior marketing professionals use video for online marketing, sales or communications. Most (84%) used this content on their own website; and more than 60% also using it as a part of their social media and email marketing campaigns. My company is focused on conducting user experience research.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

Turing’s thought experiment spawned scores of science-fiction tales, such as the 2015 hit movie Ex Machina. According to Scott Berns, CenturyLink’s Director of Marketing Operations, the company has approximately 1,600 sales people, and the Angie pilot started with four of them.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

by 2015 Q3 One Economic View: Disinflation/deflation will be catalyst for asset sell-off One Timing View: Q2/Q3-2015 low this cycle for all indicators One Guaranteed View: Volatility will go up significantly Core Trading Views 10Y Bond yields(US) will continue lower into Q2-2015. US 10-Year treasury yield will drop under 1.5%

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 2, 2023

By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. In the 1940’s, Peter Drucker praised the company for its product decentralization but criticized it, even back then, for treating employees as a feudal cost center rather than a base of knowledge and potential.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 11, 2014

Industrial production declined in the second quarter, foreshadowing very low GDP growth. All major industry sectors experienced a decline in their production. Once known growth in the second quarter, the government will have to revise its forecast for 2014 (1%) and 2015 (1.7%), leading to a greater than 3.8%

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BCG

APRIL 20, 2016

The US consumer packaged goods industry registered its strongest growth in four years in 2015, and much of the fuel was provided by small and midsize producers of healthy, protein-rich foods and beverages. The growing popularity of healthier food options does not mean that US consumers have lost their willingness to indulge.

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MishTalk

JUNE 15, 2015

Following the rebound in consumer spending (heavily weighted to subprime auto sales), economists expected a rebound in Industrial Production. All the main numbers in today's industrial production report are below low-end forecasts with the headline at minus 0.2 The production of consumer goods decreased 0.3 percent and 0.1

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BCG

OCTOBER 26, 2016

lthough the engineering, construction, and services (ECS) industry continues to lag substantially behind the broader market, a doom-and-gloom outlook is by no means warranted. Notable successes emerged in 2015, showing that value creation is possible and signaling important opportunities for many companies in the years ahead.

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