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Winner takes all in the networked economy

Market Leader Spring 2010

Ferocious competition is the norm in most of the networked economy, but a single supplier has dominated the markets for

Grounded in coffee

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In this edited interview with the founder of Starbucks, from the Marketing Society's recent event, Colin Cameron talks to Howard

What choice architecture means for marketing

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Behavioural economics has given us the concept of choice architecture. What it means is simply that the way a choice

Words worth

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The greatest short story ever written is just six words long by Ernest Hemingway. ‘Baby shoes. For sale. Never worn.’

Co-creation is here: we can’t ignore it

Market Leader January 2012

Doron Meyassed, Philip Burgess and Priscilla Daniel argue that co-creation is one of the most powerful, modern-day sources of

Words worth

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R is for reading aloud. Hearing your words is a great way to help improve writing, says Elen Lewis

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Entertainment brands as partners

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With the digital revolution, sponsors are increasingly able to tie-in with entertainment brands across different media delivering more value to

What management heretics believe in

Market Leader June 2011

Martin Kornberger and David Redhill describe how Deloitte Australia turned the management rule-book upside down, emerging with a heretical approach

Learn to predict causes of the ‘perfect storm’

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IN MANY respects, both the Toyota recall and BP oil spill incidents represented a ‘perfect storm’ crisis situation. A rare

China’s Ruling Party really needs to let go

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Is China serious about major economic reform? Probably not, says Tom Doctoroff

Of late, many propaganda pieces in the

Marketers need more insight

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The recent publication of Future Foundation’s The Future of Insight report1 argues for a more prominent role for the insight

Blogbytes: lessons from the herd with NOTW

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The Most popular Marketing Society blog article over the summer was by Alex Batchelor on lessons in normative herd behaviour

Smarter campaigns

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Every day, marketers and their agencies devise their next big digital marketing programme: the websites will be visited by millions

Advice to brand managers: loosen up

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Brand marketers would be forgiven for thinking that the world is out of control. Public scrutiny of brand behaviour is

Business in Korea: a two-speed system that will get them a long way

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In Korea, 'bali, bali' isn't a reference to a tropical island so good they named it twice – it's a

Spanning silos: a marketing imperative

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Virtually all organisations from IBM to HP to Unilever to CitiGroup, are collections of silos – organisational units that have

Social networking: an old process in a new form

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The question about the future of social networking should remind us how dependent marketing has become on insights from the

Will client insight functions survive the recession?

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In the heady days of late summer last year, before the world as we knew it collapsed, I was very

Is marketing playing with just one club?

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The practice of marketing is being diminished and increasingly misunderstood by an over-emphasis on communications, says David Whiting

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A serious examination of the myth of TV viewing

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Internet overtakes television to become biggest advertising sector in the UK – IAB, October 2009

So that's that, is TV

Personalisation: does this mean more efficient marketing and the end of junk mail?

Market Leader Summer 2010

In 1973, British households were spellbound by a TV ad from Cadbury's. It featured a family of aliens, the Smash