Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Instead, do thorough market research to ensure your business idea isn’t making sense to you alone. Market research involves you collecting as much information as possible regarding your target customers, asking the right questions, analyzing potential competitors, and discovering your target market. Don’t fall into that trap.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 29, 2019

I have been speaking, teaching and consulting on marketing and branding for 30 years, and I began to notice a disturbing trend. And to be honest, it wasn’t hard to get people talking, and certain themes took shape very quickly: speed of service, restriction of access, rigidity of policies, complexity of technology, easy of process.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The marketing budget to cement that perception was nearly $100 million, but the opening weekend not only missed financial expectations, it flat-lined. Clearly the thriving film market needs to shift to a culture that bases decisions on data — not gut checks.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The marketing budget to cement that perception was nearly $100 million, but the opening weekend not only missed financial expectations, it flat-lined. Clearly the thriving film market needs to shift to a culture that bases decisions on data — not gut checks.

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Film Franchising Budgeting Audience 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Market Position: Contracts, licenses, legal monopolies, customer lists. Business System: Organizational models, software investment, proprietary process, franchise rights. With more consumers, more "noise" from brand messaging, and more people invested in the stock market, there is greater transparency to these elements.

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Brand Hotels Reputation Franchising 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Because the "unmentionable" subject of menstruation is taboo, the market failure — supplying cheaper pads — had never received the attention it deserved. As product is sold, some of the initial working capital that SHE puts up is paid back, with the entrepreneurs eventually owning their local franchises.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The irrational behavior that Apple products provoke represents the piece of the product puzzle that only Apple has uncovered in the mobile-phone market. To understand why Apple's crazy culture is so important, it's necessary to revisit two of marketing's most important contributions. good terms and conditions, excellent delivery).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise? Bruce is familiar with all of these issues from his tenure as Senior Vice-President of Strategy and Marketing for the IBM Corporation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Once wholly in the hands of managers (the "visible hands" chronicled by industrial age historian Alfred Chandler), technology innovation used to begin with a company's commitment of resources to R&D and patent protection. But now, it will be the collaboration of market players, not their competition, that moves markets forward.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

So you can read about companies that succeed in having technology systems that support continual improvement or go to conferences and learn, or interact with them online, or even go visit them. What those companies will tell others about what they do will almost never cover most of what is critical.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

She'd mentioned her business, Calidad de Vida, a group of day care centers for the elderly, and he'd peppered her with questions, explaining that he was interested not only as a doctor (he was the leading cardiothoracic surgeon at Madrid's best hospital) but also as a potential investor (he'd unloaded his stocks just before the market collapsed).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

Aflatoun has scaled its impact by making it easy for others to copy what it does, providing access to the curriculum materials it has developed for teaching children financial skills to franchise partners all over the world. Stimulating Market Forces.

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How To Franchising ROI Entrepreneur 18

Harvard Business Review

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 Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise? Bruce is familiar with all of these issues from his tenure as Senior Vice-President of Strategy and Marketing for the IBM Corporation.

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Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And that means buying more new technology: IT organizations must adopt new platforms and processes and integrate services in new ways. Read More from DXC Technology: Is Your Company Adapting Fast Enough to Thrive in an Increasingly Digital World? Are IT organizations ready for the challenge?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

These concerns get polite nods here and there but, mostly, serious Africans ignore them and firmly redirect the conversation back to private equity, or franchise deals, or something along those lines. The technology systems that undergird this effort are far-flung. Bottom line: Are you game or are you out?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

While drawing such a map today would require more boxes and more arrows, (and perhaps an independent web of interconnected assets surrounding the ESPN franchise), the fundamental patterns and the underlying insight and intuition would remain quite consistent. Many firms may also possess synergy with the assets you target.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

It has the potential to, as no technology before, bridge the gap between virtual and real. Consumers could either tap with an NFC-enabled device or snap a QR code — up to now the main technology for linking mobile devices to physical displays. In other uses, Activision has utilized NFC technology in its Skylanders video game.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

I taught the first masters course on technological entrepreneurship in Israel at the Technion in 1987, 15 years after Israel’s first tech IPO on NASDAQ and when the entrepreneurial revolution in Israel was well underway. In emerging markets, NGOs such as Endeavor and Wamda have been key catalysts. That is not the business they are in.

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Harvard Business Review

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. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. The result was the Booking.com platform.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

That’s the “franchise of the future” challenge haunting sports’ brightest minds and biggest wallets. How might “teamness” improve the time to market performance of new product development efforts? Information & technology Managing people Talent management' Sports teams, of course, compete in physical time and space.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

My consulting firm works with many successful market leaders with amazing market shares — 30%, 50%, 70% and even 90%. One example of a company in this situation is Gillette, which has approximately a 70% share of the shaving market. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right? Client's do not want a coach.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It would license the technology by paying a royalty for every product sold. And, importantly, it would set up the sales and distribution infrastructure to sell the product to those who could afford to pay for it, while still focusing on bottom of the pyramid markets. Such stakeholders generally expect a "social return" on capital.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

One technology company targeted a 50:50 pay mix for salespeople in new customer acquisition (CA) roles, but a 70:30 mix for salespeople in account management (AM) roles. Franchise sales have nothing to do with salespeople. Within an industry or company, pay mix often varies across sales roles. Free sales come in two forms.

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Motivation Incentives Franchising Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Its fortunes have been built upon its successes in pushing the technological frontier of the microprocessor. It has built and defended its competitive position by reinforcing its Windows/Office franchise. Has it missed out on really key growth markets like search? Again, the company has its origins as a disruptor. Absolutely.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

Specifically, he saw that the advent of digital technologies was going to fundamentally alter the way people conduct commerce, pay for things, and manage and move their money. It was a technology-driven form factor. Instead of thinking about technology for technology’s sake, we studied the real consumer pain points in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Or actually, maybe strategy is really about finding blue oceans — markets that come into existence as a company defines them. Microsoft, meanwhile, killed its promising Courier Tablet three years ago because of fears that its incompatibility with Windows and Office would disrupt those money-spinning franchises.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

According to Rosenfeld, "unlike most of the other markets in which we co-produce, Sesame Street had never been broadcast in India. That leaves 33% of the country with limited access to mass media and educational opportunities. Being Willing To Try New Operating Models. Embracing New And Multiple Means Of Distribution.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

If you want to see how mobile technology can disrupt the very basics of business models and habits established over hundreds if not thousands of years, look at what’s happening in India. By July 2016, virtually every Indian had a mobile telephone and access to text messaging, primarily using 2G technology.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Google Fiber, as the effort was named, entered the access market intending to prove the business case for ultra-high-speed internet. In the Big Bang Disruption model, where innovations take off suddenly when markets are ready for them, Google Fiber could be seen as a failed early market experiment in gigabit internet access.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Size can be represented as market share, revenue, or units sold, depending on the context. It needs to treat this like a disciplined experiment and fine tune the parameters actively as it gets market feedback. Competition Innovation Technology' Imagine a 2x2 matrix with size on the y-axis and speed on the x-axis.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

After all, if acquisitions pay off they can provide a transformational antidote to a slowing core market and declining margins. Gillette dominated the men’s shaving market with its Mach series of razors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

” But if you are the Ford Motor Company and face the prospect of investing billions in new technology while your century-old business model is overturned, you might first have a few questions. All this makes the early lessons from the Chariot venture worth heeding as it gains traction in the market. What do they really want?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We’ve hit a point of acceleration in video and wearable technologies that provide us with information that we’ve never had in the past about how to optimize player performance. Our pricing, as I mentioned earlier, is demand-driven and what the market will bear, and generally the market will bear a lot.

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Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. Real Madrid is one of the most recognized soccer franchises in the world. Real Madrid: winning the hearts and minds of 500 million dedicated fans. “It’s tribal.

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