Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

At the most basic level a consulting engagement (or any strategic project) will typically contain three-phases: Structure and propose a strategy. Implement and execute on the strategy. Track the performance of the strategy. software, tools, and location)? Dashboard defined. What do we want to measure? Final thoughts.

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Prudent Pedal

JULY 27, 2021

Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) “marketing” is the season’s latest trend. According to Forbes, “The Davos Manifesto highlighted a set of 22 quantitative core ESG metrics and then added a more advanced phase two aspirational set of 34 metrics. Why is ESG important to Professional Services? One thing is for sure.

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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. But that was the outcome, not the strategy.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

They get super aspirational in their marketing, thinking that they will attract clients who want to create purpose-driven, people-centered organizations. The overall organizational system includes three primary systems: The business strategy is all about WHAT the organization wants to accomplish. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

Some companies increase their social media staff to offer live responses during big events like the Super Bowl or the Grammys, but then they return to predominately one-way social media or content marketing. Here is a simple process from my book Social Media Strategy, Marketing, and Advertising in the Consumer Revolution.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

At the CES 2018 held in Las Vegas, Steve Koenig , Senior Director of Market Research at Consumer Technology Association, presented on tech trends to watch. We seek to explore this topic from a different angle and would like to brainstorm on whether AI has the capacity to transform the overarching corporate strategy of an organization.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The emergence of data science and the proliferation of new media channels has radically changed some traditional marketing jobs, while creating new ones. As a whole, all these changes are part of the evolution away from marketing simply as art into a hybrid of art and science. Digital Marketing. Content Marketing.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The answer to the shift away from reliance on outbound sales could reside in social selling , the strategy of adding social media to the sales professional’s toolbox. Both strategies create valuable content from the consumer’s perspective and use similar social networks and social software tools.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Over 90% of medium and large businesses have used social media in their marketing for five years or longer. Yet the CMO Survey reveals that nearly half of marketers are unable to show the impact of their social media investments. Social was an add-on to existing plans — another outlet to deliver the marketing message.

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MishTalk

JUNE 19, 2014

In turn, the folks at Tableau Software worked with me to create the following interactive map. States and metro regions are rated across 11 different metrics." Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Those states are greyed out.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Of course, people do use existing comms and social software to manage quality information and close relationships — the beloved chat app Slack is widely used by couples and families, for example. But Slack is generally aimed at the enterprise market and doesn’t specialize in intimate relationships.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2018

How do emotions shape strategy making? Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. These actions increased trust and led to a more open dialogue about the company’s strategy. The consequences were emotionally burdening.”

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Strategy Consultants Strategy consultants for small business help your company to find it's strategic positioning in the market. They support you in making fundamental decisions regarding your product, your service, your pricing or your target market. They help you analyze and optimize your marketing efforts.

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LSA Global

MARCH 1, 2019

When it’s time to evaluate big strategic choices, make sure your organization is fully armed with a clear strategy that will support your big move and reduce your exposure to risk. This means objectively evaluating your strategy for growth through multiple viewpoints. The Big Picture. Financial Performance Perspective.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2016

Whether you’re a corporation, a nonprofit or a government agency, chances are that your approach to customer relationships at a system-wide level begins and ends with CRM (customer relationship management) software — yet its implementation rarely does much to foster real relationships. It’s a result of misguided strategy.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

One type of data scientist creates output for humans to consume, in the form of product and strategy recommendations. These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. What is the output?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics. What if you could accurately predict product or software delivery schedules? We are in the age of instant gratification.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. What to do.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

Using new software to analyze the digital exhaust of calendar and email metadata provides a practical way to build an accurate profile of how frontline sales representatives and managers spend their time, who they interact with externally and internally, and what effect this has on sales performance.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

.” In today’s tightening labor market, HR leaders must work relentlessly to develop and recruit people who advance digital transformation across their organizations. This neglect has hindered their ability to leverage data into talent strategies that can help transform their businesses.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. Metrics emphasized speed.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed. While technology can certainly improve operational performance, the idea that it can replace a sound strategy is a dangerous delusion. Tronc bills their new strategy as “the future of journalism,” but if anything it their shiny new digital strategy seems mired in the recent past.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Strategy, after all, is about tradeoffs — choosing where to focus. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. One of the challenges of being a CEO is that you rarely are asked to choose between a wrong or right answer.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Consider the dramatic shift in the types of assets that create market value. According to Ocean Tomo, a consulting firm focused on intellectual capital, physical assets (plant, property, and equipment) made up more than 80% of the market value of the S&P 500 in 1975. How much is changing?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

Disclosure: I was at the meeting as a paid speaker on sustainability strategy.). This basic argument, and its repercussions, are laid out in a new strategy guide that I co-authored with PwC’s George Favaloro and Tim Healy, the CEO of EnerNOC, a leader in energy intelligence software.

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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. For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social?

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QEmploy

AUGUST 19, 2019

The process can include strategic (developing a new IT strategy or cybersecurity approach) to tactical (such as the selection of an IT system) to highly operational (such as the development of an application). Such as: What marketable skills and experience can you offer to your customers? What are you passionate about?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Map a strategy. Marcy Shinder, chief marketing officer at Work Market, the New York City–based firm that helps businesses manage their freelancers and consultants, was working on establishing herself as an influential member of the team before she even started the job. The new Work Market website will go live this spring.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. I’ll describe some of Avaya’s specific innovation techniques and strategies below, but again, it’s worth slowing down to emphasize how unusual this attitude adjustment toward risk is.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

If you’re in the same boat – wanting to break in, but without a strategy – check out what we have to say below, and feel free to sign up for a Power Half Hour. I learned several software applications, including Final Cut Pro, and After Effects, and other things of that nature. I think that’s my strategy.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. The company will also eliminate a key chipset in the difficult tablet and smartphone market. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Product portfolio management helps find the most appropriate strategy to gain the desired business objectives as well as evaluate the success of each product or service and make corresponding improvements if necessary. Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands.

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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. For example, one large technology company embraced a strategy to win through new digital businesses.

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SkillQuo

AUGUST 31, 2017

By collecting, analyzing and collating all past interactions a company has had with the existing and or potential customers, CRM becomes a marketing strategy that can help one pull in a substantial profit. Not only that, but it can be maximized as a marketing tool since all your customer data is readily available.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 9, 2014

But if people are going to communicate with one another about value, those communications are going to be most effective if done using some standardized metric—and that''s where money comes in. Must the money supply be regulated by some sort of “criterion,” or can it be left alone to the free market? [Mish note: The paper costs $5].

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