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Understanding How Organizations Can Measure Digital Success

Tanveer Naseer

Regardless of how it’s asked, “are we earning a return for our digital dollars” is a “hot button” marketing question poised by leaders, management and operating staff. Some measurements become indicators that help with operating and strategic direction. Other measurements provide hard ROI data.

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Transforming Leadership And Trust In The Organization

Tanveer Naseer

There is a change happening at the very top of the organizational hierarchy that, like a weather vane, reflects some of the fundamental changes happening across every organization and the marketplace they operate in. Trust became the critical element upon which relationships were built both inside and outside the organization.

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Standard Operating Procedures Can Make You More Flexible

Harvard Business Review

Most people think standard operating procedures are a strait jacket that limits their flexibility. The Cleveland Clinic cleverly uses standards to deliver operational consistency, reliability, and low cost. We''ve reshaped our marketing mix to reflect this new patient behavior. Customers Health Operations'

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

Applying SMED, the theoretical sessions would act as the external activities that operators have to perform before a changeover, and actually implementing them in a running business would be the internal ones. Marketing mix. 6 Sigma Statistical tools to analyze Market data BCG matrix. Customers. Voice of the customer.

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How Top Brands Pull Customers into Orbit

Harvard Business Review

They spend their time sighting targets (through customer segmentation), calibrating trajectories (by optimizing marketing mix), loading ammunition (with messages and offers), firing their weapons (with marketing campaigns), and celebrating successful strikes (from sales). Traditional brands are like artillery.

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Online Shopping Isn’t as Profitable as You Think

Harvard Business Review

In general, however, e-commerce operations aren’t as cheap to run as most people think. Their economics greatly resemble those of mail order catalogs—in fact, many e-commerce businesses continue to use catalogs in their marketing mix—and they aren’t all favorable. in operating margins over the past three years.

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CMOs and CEOs Can Work Better Together

Harvard Business Review

That process incorporates operations, customer service, R&D, clinical specialists, sales, supply chain operators, and service teams. Marketing is the “glue” that integrates those elements across the entire process by providing consistent oversight, expertise, and guidance. That can sometimes be an uphill battle.

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