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One important characteristic of the next big thing is that it must have the power to surprise at the time it starts to become big, but surprise only a little bit.It’s not whether you can see it coming; it’s whether your neighbour doesn’t, but only by a little bit. Your neighbour must also share the perception that the next big thing has the power to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Innovation, Trends / Analysis

Marketers are in a slow, denial-laden shift from buying content-attached audiences, like those of TV shows, to buying intent-attached audiences, like those of search engines and personal video recorders.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Trends / Analysis

“Silverstein and Fiske [authors of Trading Up]…say people buy New Luxury items because of a ‘relatively small set of emotional drivers, both positive and negative.’ They describe four ’emotional spaces’ that influence consumption: Taking Care of Me, Connecting, Questing, and Individual Style. Home furnishings are typically Taking Care of Me goods, while Connecting goods (food, liquor, jewelry) help buyers to impress a potential mate or … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Thomas D. Sullivan | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Trends / Analysis

They used to say that the only thing worshipped in business was money, but these days, religion is making inroads into the corporate world. How did that happen–and what will it mean?

Editor’s Note: this article would have been much more interesting had it taken a look at this “trend” from an international perspective…

Content: Article | Author: Theodore Kinni | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Trends / Analysis

There is growing evidence of a set of 10 high-value marketing processes that the marketing function of 21st-century-leading enterprises will have to master. The specific processes that will prove to be most valuable to an enterprise will vary, depending on the development stage of the marketing function, as well as the enterprise’s business model or vertical market. Listed in order of increasing sophistication and, hence, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Claudio Marcus, Kimberly Collins | Source: Gartner | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Trends / Analysis

More and more companies say the COO is no longer necessary, but a few still find it essential.

Content: Article | Author: Pamela Mendels | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Trends / Analysis

Learning to manage your organization’s scarcest asset.

Content: Article | Authors: John C. Beck, Thomas H. Davenport | Source: Outlook Journal (Accenture) | Subjects: Management, Trends / Analysis

Handy, a British specialist in organizational management, predicts that the 21st century will be the Age of Unreason. In an era when changes in business and society will be “discontinuous” or patternless, he suggests that our thinking must become discontinuous or “unreasonable” in order to use such changes to our advantage. While his thesis is generally in line with strategists like Tom Peters ( In … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Charles Handy, Warren G. Bennis | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis

If you were to ask what the two main challenges are that we face, technology is not going to help you with either.

One is to increase the dismal productivity of the new labor force-knowledge workers and service workers. In blue-collar work, the question is how the job is done. But in knowledge work, the question is what should be done. Managements haven’t asked that question … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Management, Trends / Analysis

CEOs share their secrets, and speculations, on managing for the 25 years to come.

CEOs include:
CHRISTINE JACOBS | Theragenics
WILLIE DAVIS | All Pro Broadcasting
DOMENICO DE SOLE | Gucci Group
BILL HICKEY | Sealed Air
A.G. LAFLEY | Procter & Gamble
DICK KOVACEVICH | Wells Fargo
MAURY MYERS | Waste Management
PHILIP SATRE | Harrah’s
SIDNEY TAUREL | Eli Lilly & Co.
MICHAEL VOLKEMA | … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jennifer Gilbert, Paul Rogers | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: People, Trends / Analysis

Faster than a brand strategist, stronger than a line marketer – and in demand at companies worldwide.

Content: Article | Author: Steve Silver | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Trends / Analysis

Fundamentally, prediction is never valued as much as explanation in academia.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis

The agony and ecstasy of bigger, better, faster, cheaper: Some companies are hurting themselves in their quest for dominance.

Content: Article | Author: Melissa A. Berman | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Management, Trends / Analysis

A rising star at Accenture is advising Big Oil and the auto industry that they can revitalize the economy, mint profits, and save the planet — if they’ll just learn to stop worrying and love hydrogen.

Content: Article | Author: Ralph King | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Industry Specific, Trends / Analysis | Industry: Petro / Chemical

The Harvard strategy guru errs when he says partnerships erode competitive advantage, the author contends. Instead, they are now central to business success.

Editor’s Note: This article is basically a long retort to a HBR article by Michael Porter; though it makes some valuable points, its tone sounds like the desperate complaints and pleas for justice of a vanquished opponent…

Content: Article | Author: Don Tapscott | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Strategy, Trends / Analysis

In virtually every sphere, says Andrew Hacker, women and men are moving further apart.

Content: Article | Author: A.J. Vogl | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Trends / Analysis, Women in Business

CEOs’ increasing use of coaches – often doubling as therapists – clashes with the image of the almighty leader.

Content: Article | Author: Chris Sandlund | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Management, Trends / Analysis

The supply chain initiatives of the past decade rewrote the book on supply chain management. But what might be the next decade’s supply chain management innovations? Accenture’s supply chain management experts identify five major trends driving the innovative thinking of tomorrow’s supply chain leaders.

Content: Article | Authors: Allen J. Delattre, David L. Anderson | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Operations, Trends / Analysis

Since writing The End of Economic Man 58 years and 27 books ago, Peter F. Drucker has continued to demonstrate his gift for articulating the emerging issues of the day — and making them meaningful to the here-and-now work of managers. He recently spent several hours talking with Leader to Leader managing editor Paul Cohen about what is changing — and what is not — … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: People, Trends / Analysis

When a great question is first started, there are very few, even of the greatest minds, which suddenly and intuitively comprehend it in all of its consequences.

Content: Quotation | Source: FinanceProfessor.com | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis