Fri.Sep 13, 2024

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Executing the Perfect Holiday Customer Journey: Tools and Tactics for Retail Success

Customer Think

Believe it or not, the holiday season is upon us—and for retailers, it’s crunch time. With heightened competition and consumer expectations, there’s little room for error when it comes to planning your customer journey.

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Unpacking the World of Consumer Packaged Goods: A conversation with Kathy Guzman Galloway

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

In a riveting episode of the Strategy and Leadership podcast, host Anthony Taylor engages in a conversation with Kathy Guzman Galloway , a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector. This episode offers listeners a comprehensive look into the intricacies of brand management and strategy within the CPG industry, highlighting the challenges and opportunities that define this competitive field.

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Warby Parker Sees Online Growth Surge. So Why Open 600 More Stores?

Customer Think

The average American is expected to purchase nearly four pieces of eyewear in 2024. To Warby Parker, those frames can build a lot of square footage. But should they be filling online baskets instead?

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Change Is Certain, Our Leadership Is Not [6 Essentials of Leading Amidst Change.]

OnStrategyHQ

Change is inevitable in any organization. It’s a constant that drives innovation and evolution, or let’s face it, extinction. Leadership plays a pivotal role in ensuring that change leads to success rather than failure. With studies suggesting that only about 50% of change initiatives succeed (Gartner), understanding the dynamics of change and leading through it effectively is crucial.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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The Top 5 Benefits Your Company Can Gain from a Customer Advisory Board

Customer Think

A customer advisory board (CAB) can provide an abundance of key industry knowledge and insight to the host organization. Collected during in-person meetings, interim conference calls and offline discussions with individual members, this intelligence has the potential to significantly alter the way your company does business moving forward.

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How to Run Effective Quarterly Strategy Reviews

AchieveIt

You’re making a cross-country road trip from Atlanta to Los Angeles. You’ve chosen your preferred route, and you’re getting there with the help of the navigation app on your phone. This is your strategic plan. You reach Oklahoma City and settle into a hotel for the night. There, you check weather reports and see that a tornado is due to hit New Mexico the next day.

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D. Keith Pigues Honored with The Executive Leadership Council 2024 Alvaro L. Martins Heritage Award

Luminas Strategy

WASHINGTON, DC [September 12, 2024] — The Executive Leadership Council (ELC) has announced that Luminas Strategy CEO and founder D. Keith Pigues (“Keith”) will receive the esteemed 2024 Alvaro L. Martins Heritage Award at The ELC’s Annual Recognition Gala on October 3 at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC. Named in honor of The ELC’s founding member and first president and CEO, Alvaro L.

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7 Types of Marketing Automation Data—and How to Use It

Insightly

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, marketing automation software plays a pivotal role in streamlining repetitive tasks, enhancing customer relationships, and improving marketing outcomes. But did you ever stop to wonder how marketing automation delivers these key benefits ? It all starts with data. Marketing automation solutions collect massive amounts of data across every touchpoint in the customer journey—including website visits, social media interactions, shopping activity, and more.

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How to Retain Customers and Build Loyalty

Brooks Group

Conventional wisdom says your current customers are your best source of new business. Satisfied customers provide opportunities to cross-sell or upsell and can deliver a consistent stream of referrals and positive reviews. But you can’t take your existing clients for granted. Do your sellers know how to retain your customers and build long-lasting relationships?

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Navigating the Wild, Wild, West of GenAI and Copyright Issues

Strategic Communications

I found a recent news story interesting because I was just writing a piece on impending copyright issues related to GenAI for my “Let’s Get Strategic” column in Information Today. The makers of Star Wars’ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story are being sued over the use of Peter Cushing’s image. The use of the image occurred back in 2016—long before generative AI, or GenAI, hit the scene—but I’m sure GenAI and its sudden popularity had something to do with the renewed

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2024, The Year of the Customer

2023's struggles fueled a shift: companies are ditching wasteful strategies in favor of data and AI-powered growth. Enter 2024, the year GTC takes center stage. Discover 5 ways a customer-centric approach unlocks new revenue and delivers lasting success.

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Consumorphosis™

Customer Think

Consumorphosis is a fundamental shift into a new era of identities and consumer behaviours, linked to context and brand ‘borrowing’, and the fracturing of traditional brand loyalty. It’s driven by unprecedented and recent global events and societal changes.

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How to Create Engaging LinkedIn Content That Drives Traffic and Leads

LinkedFusion

When it comes to driving traffic and generating leads, LinkedIn is the social media platform you can’t afford to ignore. Whether you’re a seasoned content marketer or just dipping your toes into the LinkedIn pool, creating engaging LinkedIn posts can be a game-changer for your business. Let’s dive into how you can craft content that gets clicks, boosts engagement, and converts like a pro.

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If EX-CX Linkage And Integration Is Now A Priority For McDonald’s….Isn’t That Directional For Your Company?

Customer Think

In a recent LinkedIn post, Tiffanie Boyd, Global Chief People Officer at McDonald’s stated: “At McDonald’s, we’ve built our people strategy on a simple but powerful idea: The employee experience fuels the customer experience.