Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. market alone, companies are losing $1 trillion in annual revenues to their competitors because they are not consistently relevant enough. In fact, consumer research we’ve worked on at Accenture shows that in the U.S.

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Marketing Apparel Retail Company 134

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

Measuring Marketing Insights. Companies deploying emotional-connection-based strategies and metrics to design, prioritize, and measure the customer experience find that increasing customers’ emotional connection drives significant improvements in financial outcomes. Insight Center. Sponsored by Google Analytics 360 Suite.

Retail 132

Retail Apparel Financial ROI 132

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. The pressure on large companies in today’s equity markets is enormous, with expectations they will continue to produce outsized returns as PE ratios climb daily. Country and Market Units (P&L, and some infrastructure).

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.” What they found surprised them.

Retail 70

Retail Apparel Financial Case Interview 70

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Chemicals 71

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 71

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

That means choosing the right dashboards, defining which metrics matter most and mapping out how long-range planning, resource allocation, and budgeting will work. And since people ultimately make all the difference, your operating model should define how you manage the assignments and career paths for your difference-making talent.

Strategy 71

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Company 71

Kates Kesler

APRIL 17, 2016

A well-designed organization structure brings management attention to the nodes where value and capabilities are created—the intersection of customers, brands, products, emerging markets, functional expertise, and other strategic choices. Often, rewarded complexity is a result of making things simpler or more compelling for customers.

Apparel 50

Apparel Metrics Retail System 50