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Examples of Lateral Thinking in Marketing

Destination Innovation

Brand marketing offers tremendous scope for lateral thinking. Its whole branding, messaging and advertising is posited on one ridiculously obscure piece of lateral thinking – that customers might confuse the words market and meerkat and so search for comparethemeerkat.com. Bland marketing upsets no-one and no-one remembers it.

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What if the current use of your product were banned?

Destination Innovation

In a brilliant piece of marketing it repurposed diamonds as symbols of love and devotion. In 2013 the brand was acquired by the Japanese company Suntory who successfully repositioned the product as a sports and energy drink. They kept the same product but promoted it with different benefits to a different market.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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How Is Digital Innovation Changing Marketing?

InnovationManagement

In 2013, Adobe conducted a comprehensive research study and found that 76% of marketers believe that marketing changed more in the past 2 years than in the previous 50. Digital technologies were changing rapidly, impacting how marketers build their strategies and market to their audiences.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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A Look Back at the Innovation Management Awards

IdeaScale

Learn more about any of these stories (2013 – 2016) by following the links in their summaries: 2013 : The Cerebral Palsy Alliance. Taking Ten New Technologies to Market. We’ve honored a variety of organizations and companies in the past and we hope that we have just as much to learn this year. Marriott Vacations Worldwide.

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Lunch Thoughts: What to do with Recycled Glass?

IdeaScale

However, in 2013, only 34% of glass products were recovered and recycled, meaning that the rest most likely ended up in landfills. market, and many cities are ending curbside collections of glass. Glass is 100% recyclable, and can be recycled again and again without losing quality or purity.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.