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How One Marketing Team Made AI Part of Its Daily Work

Harvard Business Review

In today’s always-on environment, AI tools can help marketers optimize and personalize their campaigns quickly and efficiently. Impact-driving work requires both human ingenuity and machine speed — a combination marketers can’t fully embrace without daily practice. But AI alone won’t yield meaningful campaigns.

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3 Drivers of China’s Booming Electric Vehicle Market

Harvard Business Review

Norway, and other Scandinavian nations were early adopters of EVs, and Germany and Japan have long been automotive powerhouses, their EV markets have lagged in mass market adoption compared to China. While the U.S., How did China get to this point? What can companies looking to scale up their innovations learn from their approach?

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A Practical Guide for Marketers Who Want to Use GenAI

Harvard Business Review

But this does not necessarily justify inaction, nor does it require a blanket approach to generative AI where marketers either blindly take risks or avoid AI altogether. In fact, a promising way to navigate this is a nuanced approach for which marketers systematically identify areas to experiment with generative AI and areas to wait-and-see.

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Why Has the EV Market Stalled?

Harvard Business Review

Surprisingly, the EV market has stalled in recent years. Because the market has reached a difficult point in the technology-adoption lifecycle. Specifically, automakers and policymakers alike can no longer make plans based on what early adopters of EVs want.

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Put Marketing at the Core of Your Growth Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Companies that make the decision to put marketing at the core of their growth strategy outperform the competition, according to McKinsey research. Yet their research also showed that few CEOs recognize the potential for marketing as a growth accelerator. The first is to define what you need from marketing.

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Discontinuous Innovation: Transforming Industries & Creating New Markets

Qmarkets

By definition, it refers to the introduction of groundbreaking products or services that fundamentally change market dynamics, often rendering existing solutions obsolete. This form of innovation doesn’t just improve on existing products; it completely redefines them, creating entirely new markets and consumer behaviors.

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What Innovators Who Create New Markets Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

Nondisruptive creation is when you create a new market without needing to tear down or displace others or your own business. There are no failed companies, lost jobs, or destroyed markets in its wake, opening a path to innovation where business and society can better thrive together.

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