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These are the most recent articles mentioning "game"
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ngs any of us can do to create or inspire and perhaps even mandate commitment? Or does it start with the person, and what they choose to put into the game.
The quotes above suggest to me that commitment is something each of us choose to bring to the game. And as leaders, our role is to choose wh...
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ead of Marketing (the big M kind) being a strategic thrust with a clear charter, marketing within a company has become much like the children’s game of telephone. In this case, knowledge regarding customer needs is diluted on its way from idea to product or service. Organizations are not tappi...
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in the marketplace.
Rather than being a strategic thrust with clear charter, marketing within a company has become much like the children’s game of telephone. In this case, the knowledge and insights regarding customer needs are diluted and distorted on its way from idea to product or serv...
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er spent on Yahoo's engine. If Yahoo could figure out how to do a few things right, they'll be incredibly successful. They've been playing a "me-too" game for way too long. If they focus on a few things that they can own, the advertiser / brand manager community could easily switch from Google to Ya...
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only enough room at the top for a few companies, and these companies could, and did, create barriers of entry as protection against new entrants. The game was all about locking up enough supplier relationships to be able to lower manufacturing costs to the point where they could drive additional dem...
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all the actions you take to increase sales without lowering the price. This is critical in the PC market, where manufactures have to fight the price game and escape becoming a commodity. How do you avoid this fate? I think they need to relate themselves to a higher value that customers care about a...
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k is happening in the industry. And then what to do about it if you're one of the big high-tech software or solutions firms. (hardware is a different game as it has different economics of scales; therefore hard to defeat by nimble players). Incumbent firms often continue building more feature-rich p...
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t of 1, it's relatively to translate idea into execution, strategy into results. It's autonomous to some degree. And being nimble is just part of the game.
Yet place that entrepreneur or self-driven leader into a team or larger organization and that same approach of pulling out one's sword ...
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en Apple introduced it, the market for MP3 music players was commoditized, and dominated by no-name Asian manufacturers. They were playing a hardware game, and the customer was expected to do a lot of work to assemble the real solution. Apple created the iPod (the hardware) but what made it, it, was...
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e views her job to entertain and engage customers as a reason why they choose the company (not the product!).
Lesson #5: Don't play the commodity game.
Thorlo (the sock company) found a way to stop competing for commodity stuff (which would put them in competition with products from China) an...
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tegy has many clever and useful definitions such as:
How an organization uses limited resources to accomplish goals
How an organization uses its game plan to compete
How customer value is delivered
How to arrive at a profit
And while all that is good textbook stuff, I would just add that i...
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the morning from the big guy and the little guy.
The little guy every now and then withholds, because he knows it'll prolong the leaving. It's a game. I know it, he knows it. Sometimes I wish he would play it better but I know I need to leave.
I have commitments, an energy that needs to spe...
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ies are getting way too stuck in their own myopia.
Remember that early markets were community gathering spots. People went to temple, bought some game, exchanged some grain, and went back home. They fundamentally were an exchange, not just a transaction. Markets today have gotten cold and distan...
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ore being appointed CMO was to run the most non-consumer space there is, the government market.
So what do I think of Cisco's latest moves? I'm game with the vertical strategy. It'll put them in the same place as several other good vendors but competition amongst this class of firms will only ...
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