Is Your Business Just a Super H?
If you want to get better results today and be able to meet the challenges of tomorrow, then you can't depend on a business that was designed for yesterday. Yet that's the way many businesses operate....
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Cool Video About Toymaker Lego's Founding Entrepreneur
Lego put out a short animated video about it's 80 year history. Very interesting and worth the 17 minutes it takes to view it. read more
View ArticleHow Innovators Like SnowShoe are Changing the Rules of the Game for Shopper...
I've written before about how CPG manufacturers and retailers need to redesign their approach to in-store marketing because they’re wasting millions of dollars. But many of them just don’t get it. And...
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Doing Productivity Innovation: Conducting an End-to-End Assessment
As I’ve mentioned before, for many companies continuous improvement programs simply won’t be enough to handle the growing read more
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Burberry & The Digitization of Shopper Marketing
Is it possible Bill Lee has it right in his HBR article? Is marketing dead? read more
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"Burberry-ize" Campbell Soup?
Angela Ahrendts, CEO at Burberry, has led the reinvention of their 150-year-old brand through th read more
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The Leadership Agenda for Shopper Marketing
Michael Porter, the famed professor of strategy at Harvard Business School, says strategy is deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value and that in read more
View ArticleStrategies for Driving Growth - Align the Portfolio
Businesses need to grow and when it comes to growth, new products are essential. Campbell Soup is hoping their new product portfolio will help them turn around a sagging soup category. read more
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Win Over Shoppers Through Low Risk Experimentation
Everyone (except your spell-check system) is probably aware by now of the astounding explosive growth of Pinterest (they’ve gone from around read more
View ArticleAn Ode To Those In Business In Tough Times
The economy and many other factors have taken their toll but take heart, all you in business working so hard to make a go of it. Check out these words from former President Teddy Roosevelt: read more
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Strategies for Driving Growth - Accelerate the Process
Most business leaders subscribe to the theory of first mover advantage: being first to market results in competitive advantages in sales and market share (#2 loses 25% of sales to # read more
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When To Change The Business Model
So, when should a senior leader consider changing their business model? Obvious answer: before it’s too late. read more
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Small Business And The Coming Fiscal Cliff
Here’s a bleak but likely reality. read more
View ArticleFour Forces Trapping Value and Blocking Internal Innovation in CPG
I used to think it was just the company I worked for that had the problems but when I left and started my own agency, I found clients regardless of industry suffer the same problems. Things should be...
View ArticleWhy Process Doesn't Matter
Imagine what it took for Leonardo da Vinci to produce just one painting. Really. Imagine it.read more
View ArticleTalk That Matters Beyond Just Taxes
Honestly, I just don't like to do it. Pay taxes. Nobody does. Except, of course, those few ultra rich who think they aren't quite paying enough.read more
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More Process That Doesn't Matter
The story goes something like this. The archduke and duchess were returning by carriage to one of their palaces in the countryside.read more
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Work That Matters: Devolution or Real Strategies?
It was the 14th revision of a global operations strategy for a very large company that will remain nameless (but makes very tasty food).read more
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Work That Matters: The Three Questions of Value Add
I made a quick stop this weekend at (usually) one of my favorite Do-It-Yourself hardware and lumber stores. Even though I like browsing around, with a busy day of projects on the schedule, I was in a...
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