Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Dancing for the early adopters is a great strategy, if your scale is right. On the other hand, most tech companies and fashion brands lose their mojo and their masses when they try to be the regular kind. They either make the product stale and dumb, or go back to having a circus, but this time filled with compromises.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 8, 2013

A framework to help executives, senior managers and marketers devise strategies for future growth. The Ansoff Matrix is particularly useful for strategic planning because it provides a framework to help executives, senior managers and marketers devise strategies for future growth. What is a Product-Market Growth Strategy?

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MishTalk

AUGUST 11, 2015

Economists expected bounce in productivity, and got one, but it was a bit weaker than than the Bloomberg Consensus Estimate of 1.6%. A bounce back for output gave first-quarter productivity a lift, up a quarter-to-quarter 1.3 Looking at year-on-year rates, growth in productivity is very slight at only plus 0.3 percent vs 2.3

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Strategy is about harnessing your competitive advantage to exploit a competitor's weakness. Your career will be much more productive and successful if you can find a "game" (a profession) that plays to your strengths and competitive advantages, instead of one that constantly exposes your weaknesses. As I approach 40 years of age (geez.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

I hear many people go into positions in strategy. I imagine someone interested in product/marketing management is better off going into industry. Or are clients unhappy because your products stink? Or are retail partners selling the product in such a way that is somehow incomplete? Work in product management.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 29, 2023

That's the nature of courage — not being unafraid but confronting fear and danger and performing in a selfless fashion. It increases leader and follower commitment, increasing intrinsic motivation that amplifies workforce alignment and business strategy benefits. Productivity, wages, and intrinsic motivations. Castriota, S., &

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 31, 2018

This is especially important for marketers whose job is to connect consumers and products. Product recommendations have been commonplace in most online shops such as Amazon for many years. Producers of consumer goods have been especially successful in developing and marketing new products using this approach. Image: Pexels.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. It must be embedded in what we call the integrated strategy machine. Within this machine, people and technology must each play their particular roles in an integrated fashion.

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1 to 1

JULY 29, 2022

Detecting and understanding customer intent can give brands clarity into what a customer is trying to do beyond what they are saying or clicking on, whether it’s an upsell opportunity, a chance to deepen the customer relationship, increase customer retention, enhance a product or service, or something else.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Social entrepreneurship combines the problem solving, product design, and strategic implementation associated with traditional entrepreneurial and consulting roles with large scale societal impact. Project Innovators provide the deliverables in a timely fashion by working with Project Managers ( PMs ). Enter Social Entrepreneurship!

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. Strategy-making can now happen in real time. Strategy can anticipate and learn.

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freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Different industries need to test different skills and therefore depending on whether you’re applying to management consultancies, strategy consultancies or investment banking, your case study will be slightly different. Strategy Consulting : tend to use “strategic” type case studies (more details below).

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. Corporate strategy is complex, and the advice is expensive. Shift to providing advice on business models, not just strategy and operations. ZB by 2020.

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BCG

APRIL 13, 2016

Until now, the typical response to this increasing complexity—which is the result of globalization and digitization, among other things—has been for company leaders to pursue a clear, simple strategy. Their watchwords have been focus, streamline, and lean. But if homogeneity worked in the past, it is no longer a long-term solution.

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1 to 1

JULY 7, 2021

asked Lee Petersen, EVP of thought leadership and marketing at WD Partners, a strategy and design firm. C&A Brasil, for example, the Brazilian arm of a European chain of fast-fashion clothing, saw purchases through its WhatsApp channel grow exponentially during the pandemic. to more than $4.4

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, the company faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies. When an organization is aligned, there is a shared vision.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2016

These days, I advise Fortune 500 executives to treat talent as they would customers: Understand their behavior, and design recruiting strategies that meet them where they are. At least one company has worked Quora specifically into its recruitment strategy. Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The most common ways of doing this are to send executives to build personal relationships with international business partners and to hire local distribution partners — or independent, third-party intermediaries — to represent their products or services overseas. For example, consider Dez Blanchfield , whom I interviewed.

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Consultant Ninja

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

What does it say that most fashion pictures of women have them posing with their mouth open? I am a strategy consultant at. Productivity. (6). Side note: Did you know that people (like the above model) who appear to be breathing through their mouth (aka "mouth-breathers") are generally perceived as having lower intelligence ?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. “A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says.

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LSA Global

APRIL 25, 2017

Here is a scenario shared at a recent new manager training program with escalating negotiation strategies for managing the situation well: You have a team member (Chris) whose work is critical to the team’s current project. Would Chris be happier and more productive working elsewhere in the company? You need an ace up your sleeve.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We’d all like to spend our time at work on high-value activities: setting strategy, fostering innovation, mentoring promising employees, and more. Another technique, for those who prefer an incremental approach, is the “small drip strategy.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

These are great for: Trial marketing a new brand, product, or testing out a new region. Whether repurposed for a fashion show, art exhibition, festival, or music concert, your previously low-value property may be able to command a high price. Below are five (5) tips on converting a vacant spot into a high-revenue lease property.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

” Surely marketers with big dreams can come up with bolder real-world strategies than these. The hotels (outfitted, naturally, with the company’s products) are “focused on achieving consistency of the West Elm aesthetic,” a company executive explained to an industry magazine. “Camper?” Well, maybe.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Digital transformation requires a new approach to strategy. A key tenet of digital transformation is the understanding that digital strategy no longer plays a supporting role for business strategy. The digital world is far more transparent and ruthlessly revealing of weaknesses and flaws in strategy and execution.

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freshminds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

As consumers increasingly use their mobiles to become more knowledgeable about products - and even use their phones as an in-aisle companion whilst shopping in-store - the influence of mobile phones on shopping is something a consultant cannot ignore in their financial and business model advice. Comparison websites. Payment Apps.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

Managers, on the other hand, are the leaders who integrate across disciplines and serve as the interface between customer needs and the organization’s strategy. For them, having a meeting at 9 AM and another at 1 PM could destroy the productivity of the entire day. Please do not disturb.”

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

As pressure intensifies to reduce prices, either by cutting the list price or offering a discount, managers may act hastily, without the same rigor they apply to investments elsewhere, such as capital deployment or product enhancements. All too often they don’t.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Sometimes this is the natural result of portfolio strategy. Simpson quickly shifted her focus away from the hard candies line and launched new gummy products using existing excess capacity in a plant. She relaunched an existing product (Kazoozles) into SweeTart ropes (a tart, gummy licorice-like product).

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

But, for most companies, outsize returns are likely to come from three other sources: Investing in productivity-enhancing capital. In a world of tight labor markets, where recruiting and retention are at a premium, investing to make frontline employees more productive should be a priority.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2018

You may want to discard some connections upfront — for instance, someone who came up to you, handed you their card, and immediately started pitching you to buy their product or service. If you live in different cities, you’ll need to develop a more deliberate strategy. Building a deeper relationship.

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 15, 2017

Yes, I know there are websites like Glass Door but just like Amazon reviews you don’t know if you’re getting phony reviews glorifying the company or product or if someone ripped something to shreds because one screw was missing, the color was slightly different than expected, etc.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

One strategy is to take the team approach to cross-pollinate and commingle the required skillsets; bringing together a diversity of skills and backgrounds from within your organization to achieve a common goal is a highly effective method. Simpler product environments will require experts in operations, logistics, and supply chain.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

In fact, 94% of the senior executives who responded to a recent global survey conducted by our firm, Strategy&, said that growth was a priority for their companies. In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service. Thirty percent said that growth was more important than anything else.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

However it plays out, Amazon’s outreach exposed a digital divide in the consumer products world. To bridge this gap, we’ve identified seven tactics that pioneering brands have used to arrive at an effective digital strategy: Understand how digital serves different consumer segments. Make room for new technologies.

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