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The Integration of Innovation and Marketing Best Practices for Business Excellence II
During an economic down turn, marketing and particularly funds for innovation and growth are amongst those hardest hit. As new, profitable innovations are owned by marketing, whilst their financing comes from the ability for the current business to generate profits, there is an intimate link between marketing and innovation. Considering current business and innovation as distinct silos, managed in different ways by separate functions, may mean that the organization is missing a significant opportunity to maximize the skills, knowledge, resources and networks of the organization. Innovation Expert, Kevin Weir and Marketing Excellence Practitioner, Phil Allen explore how companies can keep their marketing and innovation machines turning even in tough times by taking a more integrated approach.

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Basic Benchmarks for World Class Businesses
Incremental improvement is the single fastest way to drive revenue. Study the Toyota way. How did they become a world-class car manufacturer? Toyota does this: continuous improvement. They benchmark. They measure. They fix. They improve. If I asked you right now, “What is your shopping cart abandonment rate,” would you be able to answer? In 30 seconds? If not, that is really bad because this is how you make your money. There are 2 mind shifts we’re really pushing towards. i. Think like a marketer in everything business-related ii. Measure everything –you need to know the metrics of your business
“Empathy? I hate that touchy feely stuff”
Study after study has shown that KEY to solid relationships, selling, leading and parenting is empathy. Indeed, empathy is the prime characteristic of great salespeople.

Making a Habit of Personal Development
Do you study personal development? Do you study your self and your behaviors? This kind of self analysis is proven to yield high levels of success.
It Takes Teamwork to Make a Company Dream Work
Almost everyone works in a team, but very few ever seem to achieve happiness and success from it. This always amazes me. Let's face it; if you want to be a successful engineer, you study engineering. If you want to be a successful cook, you study cooking. And if you want to be a successful person in a team, you must study success in team building.

Benchmarking (Part 2)
If we decide that benchmarking makes sense, we have to decide what we should benchmark and how we can get the data we need - internally ... and from those we want to benchmark against.
Most and Least Stressful Jobs
New study assesses numerous factors for over 200 professions, the study produced lists of most and least stressful jobs as well as the best and worst jobs.

ESCAPE THE MATRIX PROGRAMED INTO US
The events of September 11, 2001 are a benchmark for understanding that we are all programed through the matrix we all live in.
Productivity Improvement via Method study
There are a number of approaches to improving productivity: the best-known currently is probably ‘Lean’ but such approaches go back many years to the days of the early ‘productivity pioneers’. Many people (and especially people of ‘a certain age’) will immediately think of ‘time and motion’ when asked to describe a productivity methodology. This refers to the early days of ‘work study’ when the aim (as it often still is today) is to reduce the time taken by, and the motion involved in, work. The ‘improvement’ methodology of work study that derived from time & motion study was method study … and an understanding of method study gives a real insight into how all productivity improvement methodologies work.

Greatest Challenge Facing CMOs Today – Generating High-Quality Sales Leads
A comprehensive study of Chief Marketing Officers finds their greatest challenge - generating high quality sales leads. “THE VAST MAJORITY OF CMO’S IN THE STUDY INDICATED THAT GENERATING HIGH QUALITY LEADS IS THEIR TOP CHALLENGE. NEARLY TWICE AS MANY RESPONDENTS INDICATED THIS WAS A PERTINENT CHALLENGE OVER ANY OTHER CHALLENGE LISTED.” Source: MarketingSherpa B2B Marketing Benchmark Study, August 2010 of 297 CMOs
2 Take-Aways from a MarketingSherpa Case Study
Centerbeam, a company that delivers technology infrastructure support for mid-sized businesses, was the subject of a case study by MarketingSherpa recently. You can read the case study at Lead Generation: How ignoring 16,896 companies helped improve Sales-Marketing alignment. We wish to share our thoughts on this case study with our fans.

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