75 
But We’ve Always…
CorporateIntel
DECEMBER 3, 2018
Remember that every successful idea has a life cycle, and a bad idea yesterday might be reformed under changing market forces as a good idea tomorrow. It’s December.
CorporateIntel
Marketing Related Topics 
What’s Eating Brother Elon?
CorporateIntel
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
There is no question that Tesla has been an inspired market leader, but all it takes is one visit to the showrooms of other luxury car companies and you start to see that high-end electric cars are on a fast path to becoming commodities under many brands.
Who’s Really Sitting at the Top of Every Organizational Chart
CorporateIntel
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
This creates a Legal department, an Art department, an Engineering department, a Finance department, a Sales and Marketing department, and the like.
The Inaugural: A Modest Proposal
CorporateIntel
DECEMBER 23, 2016
Naturally I have a few conditions: 1) Following the swearing-in, I must get an offer to become the President’s head speech writer at market rate with full Congressional retirement benefits when I am fired.
6 Keys to Making Collaborative Innovation Successful
Speaker: Soren Kaplan, Founder of InnovationPoint
tag onto the word innovation, not to mention Harvard University’s marketing. In the taco’s first ten weeks on the market, Taco Bell sold a. 14 T h e I n v I s I b l e A d v A n T A g e $20 billion market cap. and markets (next.
Leading Teams Toward Success Using People, Products and Profits
CorporateIntel
DECEMBER 14, 2015
We can all dream up big ideas, but few of us can bring them to market. I’ve written the words People, Products, Profits (In That Order!) so many times over the years it would be easy to think of them as simply a slogan I use, a catchphrase meant to pique your interest.
|
Three Arguments Against Performance Reviews
CorporateIntel
JANUARY 4, 2016
One of your most promising managers has just led a two-year late-to-market death march on a brand extension that has launched and failed. You have lost market share, customer service complaints are up, and your own boss is pissed off. I don’t like performance reviews.
The Many Lessons of Andy Grove
CorporateIntel
APRIL 23, 2016
He was Intel’s CEO from 1987 to 1998, the famous “ Intel Inside ” years when personal computing exploded from the hobby to the consumer market. Beware the Strategic Inflection Point – By the time a market has fully morphed at scale, it’s way too late to react.
Stop Dropping the Ball
CorporateIntel
JULY 9, 2014
I get called frequently to help companies with their brands.
It’s All Getting Personal
CorporateIntel
JULY 8, 2015
My life became focused on technology, marketing, sales, finance, and team leadership. Books Brand Business Marketing Writing Bloomsbury Group building your platform business creativity and innovation Carmen Sandiego Dan Bane Endless Encores P.T.
Spigit's 2018 State of Crowdsourced Innovation Report
Advertisement
ideation to market launch Plan to track. to market.” marketing. gut feel and psychology, marketing is now. that were brought to market? brought to market • New features adding. THE 2018 STATE OF. CROWDSOURCED. INNOVATION.
|
Do You Care?
CorporateIntel
APRIL 13, 2015
I received via snail mail a stock market overview newsletter from one of the largest financial services companies in the world.
Tavis and Maya
CorporateIntel
MAY 13, 2015
” If you think those are just broad, sweeping, generic statements of advice from the elevated dais, stop here and go read someone else’s reflection, or perhaps today’s stock market results.
Endless Encores
CorporateIntel
JANUARY 7, 2015
A must read for all creative executives.”. ? Christopher Keefe, Chief Marketing Officer, Omidyar Network. “In Endless Encores. Repeating Success Through People, Products, and Profits. A Business Parable by Ken Goldstein. Published in 2015 by The Story Plant.
Everyday Innovation
CorporateIntel
DECEMBER 22, 2014
Does the goal of that have to be the annihilation of those who currently populate a market segment? You don’t have to be an entrepreneur to be an innovator. Becoming a startup CEO may not be your thing, but changing the world is always within your reach.
How to Improve Customer Experience in an Era of Choice
Advertisement
In a market where companies are fiercely competing for a larger slice of the pie, customer experience is an absolute differentiator and should fast-track to the. opportunities for products, services, and markets.
Elon Musk Blows My Mind
CorporateIntel
MAY 15, 2014
If all we are worried about is whether the stock market is due for a correction, then we are wasting brain cycles on an inevitable head fake we cannot control, so why bother? I don’t know Elon Musk. I wish I did. This guy knows stuff. He’s the real deal.
Brands in Memoriam 2013
CorporateIntel
DECEMBER 9, 2013
Third, an undifferentiated commodity without sufficient scale will not stand solo long in a consolidating market (MetroPCS).
Wings: Remastered and Revisited
CorporateIntel
NOVEMBER 29, 2013
That “interactive movie” — as it was marketed — was a World War I flight simulation that followed the lives of the very first fighter pilots, trying to make combat sense of fragile biplanes curiously equipped with machine guns.
How Fragile Is a Brand?
CorporateIntel
OCTOBER 28, 2013
Andy Grove calls it the Strategic Inflection Point , the change in market forces that happens and you miss it, and then it’s too late to course correct.
11 Proven Ways to Turn Your Culture into a Culture of Innovation
Advertisement
Whether it’s a method, ideation challenge template, go-to market strategy, or something else entirely, you have a higher likelihood of success if there’s. that allows them take ideas to market quickly. 11 Proven Ways to. Turn Your Culture Into.
Customer Disservice
CorporateIntel
JANUARY 30, 2013
Business Management Marketing creative destruction customer service lifetime value love your customers obscurity and obsolescence replacement part senior executives the art of the saveWhy do companies with big brands and tremendous momentum go out of business ?
On a Mission or Just Staying Awake
CorporateIntel
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
Choice 2: To overcome market forces and prevail over our competition! Is it the business leader’s job to respond to market forces and win market share from the competition?
The Last Word on This Election Year
CorporateIntel
DECEMBER 30, 2012
The lesson here is hardly isolated to politics , it is a story of marketing at large. Great products and services have no substitute, but as a former boss taught me long ago, good marketing helps bad product fail faster, and bad marketing can undermine the best of innovation.
The 70% – Part 2
CorporateIntel
JULY 8, 2013
In the Executive Coaching Workshop I co-lead with John Vercelli for Coaches Training Institute , we discuss early in the curriculum the pervasive epidemic of Bad Boss Syndrome.
A Strategic Approach to Open Innovation
Speaker: Jeffrey Phillips, Senior Consultant, OVO Innovation
By taking a strategic approach to open innovation, you’ll find the right ideas or partners more effectively, and you’ll accelerate new products to market more quickly.
Blog Begets 100
CorporateIntel
MAY 24, 2013
I have already begun discussion of a follow-up book and may bend your ear on that, and of course I want to include you in the sales and marketing journey as my first book comes to market in paperback and eBook.
About This Book of Mine
CorporateIntel
APRIL 11, 2013
Shameless, I know, but I am officially in the pull marketing business effective immediately. Daniel Steyer is a venture capitalist at the top of his game, looking to go out huge with the deal of a lifetime, but market forces have other plans.
Brands In Memoriam 2012
CorporateIntel
DECEMBER 18, 2012
Frequent readers of this blog know that I am obsessed with the concept of creative destruction , the intangible but daunting market force where an invention that is vital takes out that which has become defunct, and the nascent replaces the established.
Too Busy To Save Your Company
CorporateIntel
JANUARY 14, 2013
One of my final posts of 2012 memorialized the brands we lost last year, and inspired the question, how do so many companies so often and so badly miss the boat? It’s even more perplexing when they know where it’s docked, what time it leaves, and who the captain of that departing ship is.
What Users Want: How and Why to Build Knowledge into Your Product
Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates
Nils will use the example of Instagram’s Filters to talk about how putting prebuilt knowledge in your product can change the way your product is used for the better - putting you in the company of most market-leading products.
Our Real Work Begins
CorporateIntel
NOVEMBER 14, 2012
It becomes too much like a sporting event, the candidate is coached and the marketing team fuels the public rivalry. It has been over a week now since our Presidential Election, a good time to reflect.
Back to Business
CorporateIntel
OCTOBER 30, 2012
Credit markets need to flow. All of this underlies the free markets we cherish. Last week more than eighty corporate CEOs signed and published a manifesto, agreeing that our nation needs both spending cuts and revenue increases to move forward.
Don’t Fear the Fad
CorporateIntel
AUGUST 27, 2012
As an investor, can you ever know for certain if that newfangled gizmo come to market is the real deal or a fad? But organic fair-market nine-grain soft crust, probably a fad.
Comfortably Numb, Stupidly Unashamed
CorporateIntel
JULY 9, 2012
It’s supply and demand, free-market capitalism, 100% free speech, no law against it. I have been agonizing for weeks whether to write about Rielle Hunter. The notion of a single additional millisecond consumed by the public on this media danse macabre peels the skin from my typing fingers. Still I need to share a few words, less about what’s happened, more about how troubled I am with our inability to look away from the body.
Data From 3.5 Million Employees Shows How Innovation Really Works
Advertisement
Million Employees Shows How Innovation Really Works by Dylan Minor, Paul Brook, and Josh Bernoff OCTOBER 09, 2017 UPDATED OCTOBER 09, 2017 JUAN DÍAZ-FAES FOR HBR Sales and marketing were once disciplines ruled by emotions. After all, innovation, like marketing and sales, is a pipeline.
Let's personalize your content