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Agile Marketing Series: Downward Mobility and Disruptive Technology

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The idea of “downward mobility” doesn’t excite people in business like it should. Maybe it’s the marketer’s obsession with an upward-sloping graph. Maybe it’s the engineer’s obsession with more features. Or maybe it’s the generally negative associations with the word “downward” that are to blame. For Innovation, “Downwardly Mobile” Activities Are Where Tomorrow’s Leaders Come…

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Mobile Trends in 2013 and What They Mean for Marketing

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We live in an age of disruption. Technology changes at such a crazy rate — advancing and linking and driving us forward faster — that it feels like we’re risking digital whiplash. All of this instant access means that, from now on and into the foreseeable future, companies will have to change up marketing strategies…

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Agile Marketing Series: Does Management Work?

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If you’ve spent any time around engineers and software developers, then you’ve surely heard many forms of the same a question — a question  that is also common in hierarchy-dominated companies without agile techniques: Does management ever do anything? Does it seem like there are more managers than employees? Why do we need managers at all? On the other…

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The Holy Trinity of Social, Mobile and Cloud and its Impact on Today’s Work

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We know the internet was a big deal. What most people didn’t see coming was how big of a deal it would be in such a short amount of time — or how it would so swiftly go from being a slow, sometimes treacherous monstrosity to something the world simply couldn’t live without, and something…

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Agile Marketing Series: Louder Than Words, Agile is Your Business Culture

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Agile process allows innovators the space they need to explore while making the minimum number of concessions to the existing business hierarchy. It ensures day-to-day operations continue long enough for a working, evolving strategy to emerge. Exploration. Testing. Re-evaluation. These are the gradual repetitions of a solid agile process: Scrums Sprints Backlogs Dual operating systems…

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Mobile Millennials Want Consumer Tech at Work, and They Want It Now

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How many times a day do you check your phone for alerts? How about just for work purposes? When do you do it — just during office time, or when you’re out inhaling beers, too? If you happen to be the average Millennial, the answer is upwards of 34 times. Usually just for 30 seconds,…

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In-Office Mobile Workers Prove It’s Not Just About Working Remotely

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Here’s something that won’t (or at least shouldn’t  come as any sort of shocker: mobile devices are important in the workforce. They allow for constant connection, enabling people to do their jobs from wherever they want at whatever time they feel like it. But the importance of mobility is about much more than just working remotely,…

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