Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

In the context of project management, a roadmap can span across multiple timelines for continuous product development. Why do you need a product roadmap? A roadmap is crucial for visualizing a product’s strategy that is aligned with your business goals, while incorporating customer insights for future developments. Product Goal.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Description: On this episode, I’m talking with Emma Sharley, an experienced and very successful brand and marketing consultant in Australia. She works with retail, technology, and lifestyle client companies on setting up market and brand strategies, brand positioning, transitioning markets, and marketing new products lines.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 31, 2018

This is especially important for marketers whose job is to connect consumers and products. In some ways, the use of Big Data in marketing is only continuing and extending a trend that has been going on for many years already: market-oriented marketing. Big Data helps them to do exactly that.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 8, 2013

A framework to help executives, senior managers and marketers devise strategies for future growth. The Ansoff Matrix is particularly useful for strategic planning because it provides a framework to help executives, senior managers and marketers devise strategies for future growth. What is a Product-Market Growth Strategy?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. “Personal experience makes me a more effective marketer.” ” Give Employees Direct Access to Consumers. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

.” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. That’s why Harvard Business School marketing professors John T.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In the beginning companies sold products. In recent years, the fashionable suggestion has been that companies sell experiences and solutions, solving the needs and aspirations of customers. A focus on products means a focus on selling running shoes. More so than products, the possibilities with projects are endless.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retailers such as ALDI and Walmart have used price to position themselves against traditional competitors in their markets, pinching margins all around. Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. All too often they don’t. Improving perception.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Our recent work in women’s fashion suggests more complicated promotional structures aimed at basket-building — such as buy one item and get a second at a discount — work far better in-store. What products are most likely to garner more response when promoted? Who is most likely to respond (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

When companies expand into foreign markets, they need to gain the trust of local business partners and prospective customers in order to succeed. Both of these approaches, however, are time-intensive, requiring executives to spend weeks or months in foreign markets. William Andrew/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 30, 2016

But over the last two years, Daniela Simpson, the director of marketing, helped it achieve 15% revenue growth per year, which is seven times higher than category growth. Simpson quickly shifted her focus away from the hard candies line and launched new gummy products using existing excess capacity in a plant.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

For example, well-managed consolidators such as Dell Technologies are doing well in this market. But, for most companies, outsize returns are likely to come from three other sources: Investing in productivity-enhancing capital. The tax law allows 100% expensing of much new capital expenditure.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

For them, having a meeting at 9 AM and another at 1 PM could destroy the productivity of the entire day. In this email to his development team, Jeremiah Dillon, Google’s head of product marketing for Apps at Work, even suggested a specific strategy for each day based on how energy ebbs and flows over the course of a week.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2016

In a previous piece I discussed why some AR apps are destined to be forgotten as gimmicks, and what mistakes marketers should avoid when trying to deploy them. The application was one of the first marketing campaigns that allowed interaction with a digital model in real time. Phase 2: Trying on products at home.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

.” Embracing market risk in our careers is a high-percentage move. We are increasingly aware of the importance of assuming market risk when it comes to starting or growing a business, but assuming market risk is also a critical accelerant of the personal disruption that fuels individual career growth.

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Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2016

“It feels weird eavesdropping like this,” Alejandra Chirinos told Ricardo Rodriguez, her marketing VP, and Miguel Martinez, her head of sales. Soledad Orellana, the market research consultant who’d arranged the session, concurred. Ricardo chuckled. “They know they’re being watched,” he said.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 16, 2014

If you are thinking about producing a strategic plan, developing a new product, entering a new market, engaging in a new venture, or financing a project then it probably makes sense to understand the big picture issues that could affect your success. Availability of credit (consider also the liquidity and depth of the credit markets).

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. For people in other professions, it may be Quora, a website that hosts questions and answers on subjects from programming languages to fashion to the outbreak of the Zika virus. What’s the trick?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

There’s a tendency to assume that the salesperson lost because their product was inferior in some way. However, in the majority of interviews buyers rank all the feature sets of the competing products as being roughly equal. 3: Market Leaders Have an Edge. In most industries a single company controls the market.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

If biology flows downhill, shouldn’t society as well—especially when society will contain more older people than ever before, while becoming more dependent than ever on the productivity of a relatively smaller cohort of young people? And they’re hardly feel-good indulgences.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

On this episode, I’m talking with Emma Sharley, an experienced and very successful brand and marketing consultant in Australia. She works with retail, technology, and lifestyle client companies on setting up market and brand strategies, brand positioning, transitioning markets, and marketing new products lines.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2016

There are four things I think publishers need to know to compete in the digital age: The product drives the business. In a sense, publishing is like any other business: Your success is driven by customer demand for your product. The quality of a publishing product comes down to user experience and reporting.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2017

In the world of marketing, brand anthropomorphism can be a powerful mechanism for connecting with consumers. Indeed, Siri seems more persona than product. Amazon, for example, recently added a camera to its Alexa/Echo platform so the company can use its AI technology to offer personality-driven fashion advice. Cat Yu for HBR.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

How can we create $12 trillion a year in market opportunities by 2030? But a recent report concludes that meeting the goals in just four out of 60 sectors (food and agriculture, cities, energy and materials, and health and wellbeing) could indeed open up market opportunities worth up to $12 trillion a year in less than 15 years.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

” Little did they know that the business they founded, Vineyard Vines, would become a darling of the fashion industry and a household brand name around the country. ” Of course, this type of real-time, one-to-one marketing is easier said than done. .” Data-Driven Marketing. Insight Center. Sponsored by Google.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

“Our ultimate marketing mission is to make Chipotle not just a food brand but a purpose-driven lifestyle brand,” the company’s new head of marketing said. ” Surely marketers with big dreams can come up with bolder real-world strategies than these. ” Peddling burritos? Selling sweets? “Camper?”

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 24, 2019

Being a product manager requires taking responsibility. You are the ambassador of the product. You’re responsible for it from its first fuzzy idea, to concrete concept, through production, launch, and all the way to maturity stage. Stepping into the Product Manager Role. Product Manager Career Paths.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service. In everything it does, the company pays as much attention to its growth engine — its ability to manage innovation and launch consistently valuable products — as in any particular garment or device it sells. What do they offer us?

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

At Dorchester Collection of ultra-luxury hotels, we use big data and analytics to help us improve our guest offerings and marketing. We began by studying the market. Data-Driven Marketing. Clearly, many were either participants in or close observers of the high-fashion world. Ron Berg/Getty Images. Sponsored by Google.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 3, 2017

It’s common for discount upstarts to enter well-established markets. The aim of discount companies is to both steal customers from incumbents and serve new customers by growing the market. Many companies only offer one option — the best — which includes a wide gamut of services or products.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 26, 2016

Measuring Marketing Insights. All of these things can dramatically influence your need for products and services. Consider a few examples: Trends in religious growth are one of the best predictors of fashion-related categories. But some forecasts focus too much on macro data, like GDP, urbanization, and population growth.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

These are great for: Trial marketing a new brand, product, or testing out a new region. Advertising and Marketing. It only takes a little imagination to realize that an empty shop window makes for a great spot to place advertising and marketing. Selling seasonable items (e.g. Christmas, Halloween, etc). Showroom space.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

According to a new book by Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. Gaining real insights into customers’ needs demands more of companies than those arising from typical market research.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 21, 2023

For example, in a retail setting, let’s say a fashion clothing client wants to understand the purchasing behaviour of their customers. The client can use this insight to target their marketing campaigns and direct their product development efforts accordingly.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

However it plays out, Amazon’s outreach exposed a digital divide in the consumer products world. Luxury brand Burberry maintains microsites where customers share snapshots of themselves in their own Burberry coats, and streams exclusive fashion shows for younger users of its mobile app. Use the right digital channels.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

In our experience in initiatives to improve the quality, enhance experience, and decrease the cost of health care in the Seattle and Portland, Oregon markets, the best way to reach accord on a single definition of quality is to engage multiple providers and employers in a collaborative effort supported by medical evidence.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

Take Jeremiah, a marketing manager. Early in his career, he focused primarily on internal self-awareness — for example, deciding to leave his career in accounting to pursue his passion for marketing. The human mind rarely operates in a rational fashion, and our judgments are seldom free from bias.

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