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Examples of Lateral Thinking in Marketing

Destination Innovation

Its whole branding, messaging and advertising is posited on one ridiculously obscure piece of lateral thinking – that customers might confuse the words market and meerkat and so search for comparethemeerkat.com. It can then yield widespread coverage and sends a message that you are agile and bold. How can you differentiate yourself?

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Programmatic buying: The high-tech, data-driven way to manage ad buys in real time — and drive business results

Brunner

Gone are the days when advertisers had to rely on a tedious process of negotiating deals with individual account reps channel by channel, committing to ad buys, and waiting for days to receive data. These systems, called demand-side-platforms, or DSPs, allow advertisers to place ads across a number of platforms. “We’re

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The great GE innovation experiment

Jeffrey Phillips

A word about the change in the marketplace But first, as the advertisers used to say, a brief word about what this calving of a behemoth into three still very large companies says about the market and competition. As change accelerates and there's an increasing need to be agile or nimble, getting smaller and faster is key.

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Calculated Risks and the Missing Competency of an Anticipatory Mindset

Daniel Burrus

For the sake of better understanding how risky “low-risk,” agile mindsets can be, let’s observe two organizations that chose to stand when the disruptive dealer was showing a high card. It lets you more accurately predict what’s to come to stay ahead of disruption caused by stagnation!

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10 Disruptive Trends for 2020

Leapfrogging

Web Marketing Backlash – From Google’s misleading results format–which obscures the distinction between paid and organic content–to misleading social media advertising, society will grow increasingly weary of big tech’s role in shaping our worldview.

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What This Video Of A Drone Fishing For Tuna Can Teach You About Disruption

Faisal Hoque

Here’s what an agile mind-set’s made of. AGILITY: IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD. But while business leaders often use the term “agility” to describe their business plans and strategic initiatives, it’s often little more than a buzzword—and a fervent wish. HOW TO PRACTICE AGILITY.

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What This Video Of A Drone Fishing For Tuna Can Teach You About Disruption

Faisal Hoque

Here’s what an agile mind-set’s made of. AGILITY: IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD. But while business leaders often use the term “agility” to describe their business plans and strategic initiatives, it’s often little more than a buzzword—and a fervent wish. HOW TO PRACTICE AGILITY.

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