- Creativity and the Collaboration Business Model
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- Don’t Monkey About: How to Beat the Stress of Middle Management
- Agile Marketing Series: A Deep History of Business Management, Part 2
- Collaboration Between the CMO and CIO: A Love Story
- Agile Marketing Series: A Deep History of Business Management, Part 1
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Agile Marketing Series: A Deep History of Business Management, Part 2
With specialization and globalization, life is now divided between our individual connection to the world and the world as whole playing out in real time before us. We are simultaneously able affect it, and stand powerless before it. Many businesses are going through what Walter Kiechel calls a “re-engineering,” with the individual customer at the…
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Collaboration Between the CMO and CIO: A Love Story
Collaboration exists in many forms. As a tool that manifests organically out of human interaction, it’s subject to the push-pull of partnerships and the dangers of imbalanced approach. That’s especially true in business, when two or more department heads fail to communicate their expectations of each other, but still use them as measures for success.…
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Agile Marketing Series: A Deep History of Business Management, Part 1
“Agile” describes a deeper trend in business management: to concentrate on a new way of doing business that strives for innovation while minimizing the risks of traditional all-or-nothing strategic approaches. It’s what I’ve called the anti-Mad Men approach: try anything, but never failing the same way twice. Systematic innovation is at the core of all…
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Agile Marketing Series: The Complementary Opposite Nature of Marketing and Innovation
“Business has only two functions—marketing and innovation.” I have heard this quotation attributed to Peter Drucker, a.k.a. “the father of business consulting” (talk about a guy with some dubious children), as well as Czech novelist Milan Kundera. Citations for Drucker usually extend the quotation, adding, “All the rest are costs.” Kundera. Drucker. Novelist. Consultant. Marketing. Innovation. The…
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Agile Marketing Series: the Emergent Strategy + Good Money vs. Bad Money
In the 1970s and 80s, Toyota had a deliberate strategy to sell big motorcycles in America. They looked at the market and decided there was a good opportunity for big hogs like Harleys. However, they continually failed to break into the large road-bike segment. But that was Toyota’s big opportunity, in disguise. Their deliberate strategy…
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Capitalizing on Collaboration: 4 Tips to Make the Most of It
You’ve read it a million times — collaboration is king in agile business, it’s one of the best ways to be effectively creative, and bringing limited resources, people, and great ideas together is how successful organizations rise above the rest and remain ahead of the game. Well, plan to keep reading it, because it’s absolutely…
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10 Ways to Recognize Your Advocates
[Editor's Note: Customer advocacy and the importance of nurturing communities has been on the forefront of much of the blogosphere lately. In this post, originally publishedhere, Influititive's VP of marketing, Jim Williams, promotes the idea that your VIP-level customers deserve more than just a gift card for their advocacy.] Advocates are supporters of a brand because…
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