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Monthly Archives: October 2013
The Value Gap
Engaged in an innovation portfolio management assignment a while ago, we struggled to define why one project should continue to suck up resources in preference to many other seemingly worthy opportunities. We tried all sorts of models, financial and strategic, … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Innovation, Marketing, Strategy
Tagged collaboration, communication, Innovation, performance assessment, Strategy
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Algorithms are the new gatekeepers
There have always been gatekeepers, those people who make the decisions about what you see, what you have the opportunity to buy, and weather or not you can participate. The supermarket buyer determines what goes on the shelves, a … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Management, Social Media
Tagged analytics, change management, communication, managing yourself, Social Media
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The old duck metaphor.
A story on myself. I am in the middle of a small project that requires considerable collaboration amongst people not used to collaborating. Always challenging. In a conversation over the weekend with an old mate, wise in the ways of … Continue reading
Posted in Alliance management, Communication, Management
Tagged Agriculture, Alliance management, collaboration, communication, managing yourself
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Modern marketing Trinity and the glue
Sick of the avalanche of unsolicited email coming in to your inbox? Most of us are, and my kids have reacted by virtually turning email off, and using social media to communicate with those in their circles. The volumes … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Customers, Marketing, Social Media
Tagged analytics, Branding, communication, competitive strategy, Marketing, Social Media
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Simplifying innovation
Innovation takes up a lot of my time, and whilst successfully bring a new product to market is a huge task, challenging as it does all sorts of personal, organisational and financial barriers, it can nevertheless be broken down into … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Marketing, Strategy
Tagged collaboration, Entrepreneur, Governance, great management, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing, portfolio, Strategy
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The semantic disruption of Agriculture
The success of the last 250 years in western economies is based on the economies of scale. Harnessing technology to deliver greater productivity per unit of input, capital, labour, and raw material. All industries have been disrupted from the cottage … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Demand chains, Marketing, Strategy
Tagged Agriculture, category management, Change, change management, communication, customer, demand chain, Management, Marketing, Strategy, supply chain, Value chain
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Reality is visual
I had a post prepared for this morning, relating to the evolution of “local” agriculture, specifically around Sydney. However, the events of the weekend, the burning of Sydney’s surrounding bushland, including several of the farms of those I have been … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Governance, Lean, Operations
Tagged collaboration, communication, performance assessment
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The emotion of “close”
Bushfires are raging, again, around NSW, houses lost, businesses destroyed, kids stressing out because they cannot get to HSC locations, and “fireies” putting themselves in harms way. Yet, we watch, are concerned, but go about our dailies as best we … Continue reading
Posted in Marketing, Personal Rant
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Cottage cheese and the job to be done.
Cottage cheese is a pretty dull category in supermarkets. A relatively tasteless, low calorie (therefore it must taste crappy, right?), price competitive, group of products. Yes, so we thought. Years ago, 25 years in fact, I was the GM … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Category, Customers, Innovation, Marketing
Tagged Advertising, Branding, category management, communication, competitive strategy, Marketing, Social Media
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Intelligent re-design
Intelligent design is a huge discredited furphy perpetrated by Christian fundamentalists in the US on sections of the school system. But, taking the notion of viewing something through an entirely different lens a bit further, intelligent re-design becomes a notion … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Collaboration, Marketing
Tagged Branding, Change, change management, collaboration, competitive strategy, Innovation, Marketing, Social Media, Strategy
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Paradox of marketing automation.
We are rushing headlong towards automating the marketing process, everything from the call centre systems to advanced automation like Marketo and others. However, we are social animals, and no matter how much we set out to automate, you simply cannot replace … Continue reading
Posted in Marketing, Social Media
Tagged communication, competitive strategy, Entrepreneur, great management, Leadership, Marketing, Social Media, Strategy
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Transformation to “Social”
Question: How do you know when your enterprise has become “Social” Answer: When it evolves from a vertical, and functionally oriented enterprise with power emanating from the position descriptions, to one that is cross functional and project oriented, and power … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Customers, Marketing, Social Media
Tagged communication, competitive strategy, customer, Marketing, performance assessment, Social Media
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Warrnambool Cheese being sliced off Australia.
Canadian dairy processor Saputo looks set to take control of Warrnambool Cheese and Butter (WCB) with a $7 a share offer valuing the company at $370 million, which trumps an existing cash and shares offer from Bega Cheese which … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Governance, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy
Tagged Alliance management, Branding, category management, Change, competitive strategy, Governance, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy
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Marketing defined, again.
Definitions of marketing abound. A bit like a scratch in the morning, everybody has one! The lament of President Roosevelt that if you had 7 economists in a room, you had 8 opinions, is equally true for marketers, except that … Continue reading
Posted in Customers, Management, Marketing, Personal Rant
Tagged Advertising, Branding, category management, great management, Management, Marketing, Strategy
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Quality of life: A context sensitive idea.
Some years ago my Dad had a stroke, a nasty one that had a profound impact on his physical capability. We were assured by physicians that with intensive therapy and rehabilitation, he would regain a “quality of life.” Compared to … Continue reading
Posted in Marketing, Small business, Strategy
Tagged Agriculture, Change, demand chain, Governance, Strategy
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Media: social, earned, or fish-wrapper.
There has been lots of conversation about the value of social media, very sensibly proposing the case that simply getting a “like” is useless, you can buy them if you want them. The measure of success should be how … Continue reading
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Customer driven demand chain rebirth
It is pretty trite to point out, again, that the reason businesses survive is to satisfy customers. In fresh produce markets, this has been pretty much forgotten as the share of the consumers dollar that ends up in the farmers … Continue reading
Posted in Category, Customers, Demand chains, Marketing, retail
Tagged competitive strategy, customer, demand chain, Marketing, retailer, value
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