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Strategic Thinking – 16 Ideas for Creating an Entrepreneurial Environment Inside Your Company

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At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Building the Team. Expect turnover in the team.

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The Marketing Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

The Marketing Stakeholder Interview. Marketing stakeholders. Marketing stakeholders (such as marketing executives and most product managers) are usually responsible for promoting the company’s brand, identifying new market opportunities and products that could address them, or both.

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Unleash Your Visual Superpower!

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Designers yearn for a world where companies depend on their ideas but usually work in a world where design is just one voice. Design itself is a product. Developers own the code, business owns the proposition, yet design is considered a “service.” Agile teams can lose the long term direction by focusing on small sprints.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

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In my corporate days, I was dispatched to work with competitive companies our corporation purchased. The objective was to help them become better strategic thinkers and marketers. Since all the companies competed with one another, each one needed to determine its own business strategies. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Internal Branding Strategy – 3 Ways to Be Smarter than United Airlines

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For an airline, determining the correct way for a gate agent to manage boarding, or for a flight attendant to interact with passengers, are both elements of managing an internal brand team. Here are three internal branding weak spots the United incident highlights. Who Is Your Internal Brand Team?

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Why a Thought Leadership Strategy Isn’t What Your Brand Needs

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My personal antipathy toward thought leadership strategy stems from a moment during corporate life. A peer was developing a “think piece” on the transportation industry’s and our company’s place role in its future. Employee Leader Strategy. Help employees develop as leaders. What to do?

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Ideation: Anatomy of a New Product Idea

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If you have teams close to customers, working in the field, using your product everyday – they’ll often be a great source for early indicators of where existing products are missing the mark. As product managers or entrepreneurs, curiosity will ensure we always have a plan B. Good ideas often look bad.