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The death of innovation

Market Leader Winter 2010

John Kearon examines the heretical proposition that the adoption of ‘marketing science’ is the reason why large corporations no longer

Brainwaves, The glory, the glamour, the gongs galore …

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With the end of one year and start of another, throughout the country – perhaps throughout the world – everyone

Blazing the retail trail

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Bricks-and-mortar retailers in the age of the internet face increasing threats. Leslie Clifford and Laura Moser have scoured the world

This much I’ve learned

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The best advice I ever got … Was from a boss who encouraged me to trust my instinct. I’d spent

Marketing’s role in sustainable living

Market Leader March 2012

In a resource-constrained world, growth needs to be not only economically sustainable, but environmentally and socially sustainable as well. Marketing

Innovate to accumulate

Innovate to accumulate - Market Leader

Many innovative and successful companies are discovering how to co-create new value with consumers, suppliers and customers. Yet there

This much I’ve learned

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The best advice I ever got … Use your head, trust your instincts and follow your heart.

The worst advice

Three cheers for sales promotion

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WHAT’S THE oldest profession in the world? Beyond Redemption unequivocally claims that it is sales promotion – Adam would never

New World Order of Global brands

Market Leader 2011

 most global brands have been invented by Western companies for Western consumers. emerging-market consumers are very different. simon silvester explains

What not to do

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When people submit articles for Market Leader, I try to ensure that, given our readership of practical marketing folk, the

Strength in numbers

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Companies find it hard to co-operate. They should try harder. A strategy of working together can help national competitors to

Personal marketing: the key to personal service

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It is no use using the language of the past to talk about the business of marketing for the future

The dangers of common sense

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Recently, a planner I know asked me a question: How does advertising actually work? That's a very good question, and

What the West can learn from China

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As the world's economic attention turns to China and India, marketers are eyeing up new markets and new competitors. But

Account planning: back to the future?

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Account planning began in two London agencies over 40 years ago.

The charmed generation: the last of the lucky ones

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The Charmed generation are a cohort of older people who have benefited from the combination of factors that has enabled

Marketing in the digital age

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The iPod generation looks for honesty, not marketing spin

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Is the growing dominance of an online business culture an opportunity or a threat for the marketing and PR industries

Being first: gaining and maintaining leadership

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The recession has been a long overdue wake-up call for marketing and business in general, forcing companies to take a

What hope-fuelled markets can teach fear-fuelled markets

Market Leader Winter 2010

Most markets can be identified as either hope- or fear-fuelled. Ann Mack and Mark Truss describe the outlook of the

This much I’ve learned

learn

The best advice I got ... When I was a graduate trainee, a sales manager who spent every lunchtime in