CEO Blog

JUNE 3, 2012

John Travolta said no to Forrest Gump , and Gwenyth Paltrow told James Cameron that The Titanic , was not her cup of tea. Running the Gauntlet is a personal recommendation by the former Chief Marketing Officer of Kodak, Jeffrey Hayzlett, on how company “change-agents” should strive to lead, drive change, and grow profits. Probably not.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2012

2011 Trends Report: Customer Relationship Management. Effectively and efficiently managing customer relationships is job No. Are you ready for the coming changes in the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) landscape? Click here for more information on 2011 Trends Report: Customer Relationship Management.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Relate Articles: Complimentary Resource – Forrester Research Report: The Business Impact of Mobile Engagement. Complimentary Resource – 8 Content Marketing Mistakes to Avoid. Complimentary Resource – Marketing Analytics Worksheet. Complimentary Resource – Top 10 Social Media Truths For 2014.

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Chart Your Course

DECEMBER 28, 2017

It will be important for companies to remain vigilant to market opportunities and not dismiss investments that have not worked in the past, but could benefit from some adjustment. Another result of the tightening labor market is that employers will get serious about upskilling their own people. Archived editions are posted at [link].

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2024

Post Covid, online grocery shopping is still high, forecasted by Forrester (2021) to hit 10.4% During 2020-21 online grocery shopping soared from 3.4% to double digits as Covid-19 made customers reluctant to go into stores. How will grocery retailers service this new demand stream?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

If you're an experienced professional, it can be tough to find a job in today's market. She was a training manager for a large corporation, advising middle and senior managers on career development. The market dynamics that pushed her out of a job were happening across the whole marketplace for her profession.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Sales reps, according to Forrester , tend to prioritize a sales agenda over solving a customer’s problem. If organizations don’t change their outdated thinking and create effective sales models for today’s digital era, Forrester warns that 1 million B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

The questions I get from management about social applications are varied. How do you manage all this? How can we prove to management that all these social applications are paying off? Crucially, the right strategy here is not to put all the social efforts under one manager.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

By Matt Lawson, Managing Director, Ads Marketing at Google. Consumers expect more of marketers now. Read more from Google Analytics 360 Suite: Marketing Analytics Can Improve the Customer Experience. 3 Ways Marketing Organizations Can Make Data More Actionable. Marketers need to know.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Many marketers and salespeople believe they are in a selling war against their direct competition. Here's the root cause of the problem: most marketing and sales efforts focus on the wrong messaging and therefore do not stimulate the correct part of a prospect's brain. To Build a Great Sales Team, You Need a Great Manager.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

While many of these executives hold the title of Chief Customer Officer, others go by names like Chief Client Officer (at OptumHealth), Chief Experience Officer (at Cigna), Executive Vice President, Member Experience (at USAA), or Chief Global Customer and Marketing Officer (at Dunkin' Brands). Senior leaders are in a new position.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Forrester Research predicts that by 2012 half of all consumer purchases will be either transacted online or digitally driven in some way — influenced by search, social media, or emerging digital platforms like location-based services and digitally augmented store environments. But the bigger shift is behavioral.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Companies like Salesforce.com, Philips, and Oracle have appointed chief customer officers, while many other B2B players have embarked on enterprise-wide efforts to improve their marketing, sales, and support interactions. These customer experience management initiatives can be complex.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Not surprisingly, Prime has been a wildly successful marketing vehicle that attracts new customers, increases sales (new members increase their purchases by an estimated 150% after joining), and serves the needs of high volume customers. Amazon’s challenge provides two key pricing lessons to all managers. Marketing'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

As a consequence, CIOs work on go-to-market strategies as well as on acquiring and retaining new customers. An early mover was Forrester Research, which appointed Steve Peltzman CBTO in 2011. It’s about focus and mental cycles: How much time and energy do you put toward managing in-house technology activities?”. IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Healthcare data is also highly prized on the black market because there are so many lucrative ways to use it fraudulently, so it’s often a more attractive target than financial or other personal data. Healthcare is a high stress environment, where, understandably, information security training is often not the top priority.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 8, 2011

What’s the impact on organizations like Symantec (virus), Gartner/Forrester (advisory), HP (printing), and Microsoft (operating systems)? Is the same thing happening in the tech industry and all ancillary organizations who attach themselves like barnacles to tech? If so, what is the impact on the industry? Is it getting cheaper?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

When teachers or factory workers go on strike, they're hoping to remind management of the value of their expertise. The European Data Protection Act (Forrester Blogs). "Often overlooked when things work as they should," the value of expertise is back in the spotlight, argues Weber. TO CURSE, PLEASE PRESS "1". Are You Breaking the Law?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

Digital natives who grew up with the Internet and smartphones have transformed the way B2B buyers research purchases, qualify vendors and make purchases—changing the rules of the game for marketers and product managers. First impressions matter as much as ever in B2B markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

While most executives are pros at managing change, digital transformation is a much deeper change than the usual process or system update. For example, increasing your marketing spend for digital channels or upgrading internal communication systems. You manage what you measure. Are you really bought in, and is your team?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

” Companies measure the market results of their sales investments. But few have measures or even have accountable managers in place for their social media investments, and only 7% say their organizations “understand the exact value at stake from digital.” ” Meanwhile, according to a Gallup survey , 62% of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

James McQuivey, principal analyst and vice president at Forrester, suggested that executives should sit up and pay attention to HoloLens. As an executive, you care about this because in Forrester’s Technographics survey data, there are 7.2 This one comes to mind.). Is there any reason for them to pay attention to HoloLens?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

For example, consider a manager in a company that fortuitously entered a growing market just at the right moment. This manager appears successful and is rewarded with several promotions into the senior ranks. Let this manager encounter a problem, and his or her true abilities will emerge to be tested.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

“Death of a B2B Salesman,” a new report from Forrester Research , lends urgency to the need for companies to rethink and radically transform their sales models by incorporating digital media into their processes. Contrary to what these findings — and Forrester’s prediction that “1 million U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

Lucia Luce Quinn is Chief People Officer at Forrester Research. Rick Jensen, who left a big job in marketing to become SVP, Chief Talent Officer at Intuit, recalled a lesson he learned in marketing: “Fall in love with the problem.” Upon arriving, she flatly refused the CEO’s offer of the CHRO role.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Managers at the aerospace manufacturer wanted to make faster decisions for one of their big clients — NASA — by finding alternatives to the high volume of meetings and cumbersome spreadsheets used for tracking projects. SpaceX had a problem. In today’s organizations, the speed of decision making matters, but most are pretty bad at it.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 4, 2021

They’ve seen them wrestling with children, in trying to manage personal and professional challenges at home, more Zoom gaffes than we can count, etc., which has given employers a deeply humanistic view of those they manage. But as you grow, you’ll need specialists on the team: great salespeople, creative marketers, and robust techies.

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