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What Big Consumer Brands Can Do to Compete in a Digital Economy

Harvard Business

It also hurts the brands sold inside the stores, which in part explains why consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble are seeing their sales stagnate for products like Tide detergent, Gillette razors, Pampers diapers, and Crest toothpaste. Penney, and Barnes & Noble. Maxx and Marshalls—which compete aggressively on price.

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Technology Is Changing What a Premium Automotive Brand Looks Like

Harvard Business

The traditional drivers of brand premium are being joined (and to varying degrees supplanted) by newer, tech-enabled variables: software, interactive products, digital interactions, immersive experiences, and predictive services, to name a few. Marketing and sales: offline vs. online. Marketing and sales: emotional vs. experiential.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. Innovation at GE was on a roll. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies?

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How 4 Retailers Became “Best Places to Work”

Harvard Business

HEB, Costco, Trader Joe’s, and QuikTrip all made Glassdoor’s 2017 “Best Places to Work: Employees’ Choice” list , released in early December. For Craig Boyan, HEB’s president and COO , creating a culture of “restless dissatisfaction” drives customer service, employee engagement, and innovation.

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How GE Built an Innovation Lab to Rapidly Prototype Appliances

Harvard Business

Many large companies yearn to rekindle the innovative magic of entrepreneurship, but very few actually succeed. The reasons have been well documented and include: Large, established companies answer to investors who value predictable, consistent financial results, and so are intolerant of the risks inherent in bold innovation.

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If Only It Was So Easy

Martinka Consulting

On May 25, 2017, the Wall Street Journal’s tech column was about how almost all of us have personal information exposed online, much more than we realize. Business Buy-Sell – my initial disclaimer is it’s rare when there’s a major surprise post-sale. The June 1 column had more on how to reduce information exposure.

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Why Consulting: The 2019 Ultimate Guide

QEmploy

This guide contains everything you need to know about being a freelance consultant, answer the questions you might have, and tell you what to be aware of. How to start? What are the steps? And what can you get out of it? Jump right into it below and find the answers. This is just to name a few – there are an abundant amount of other fields.