“…the business enterprise has two –
and only these two – basic functions:
marketing and innovation. Marketing
and innovation produce results; all the
rest are costs.”
- Peter Drucker
Hult International Business School
Strategic Innovation
Thomas Hall
http://brandworksglobal.com/
Radar Golf

Place a tiny electronic tag inside
golf balls to make them easy to find

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Radar Golf

 Would you fund/launch this venture?
 What questions would you ask?

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Assess Strength of…
New Venture Team
Opportunity
Industry
Business Model
Why Bother Innovating?
Extend Your Business
Take Customers Away

Classic Study - Involves a Coffee Cup
 What pay to buy the cup?

$ 3.12

 What would you sell yours for?

$ 7.12

NET: Promise a BENEFIT advantage

that is DOUBLE the Competition
Intense Interest
High

Purchase
Probability

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7
6
5
4
3
2

Low

1
0
0

1
Not at all

2

3

4

5

6

New & Different

7

8
Very

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What Strategy Has Highest Margin?
Higher Margin
What Makes a Great Idea?
3. Dramatic Difference
3. PROFIT

1. PROMISE

1. Overt Benefit

2. PRODUCT
(or Service)

2. Real Reason to Believe
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Example - New Automobile Suspension
System

Feature

Benefit

- Dynamic Control

- Reduced Roll Over Risk

- RD 20 Wheel stiffness

- Improved Ride Comfort
Example of Numeric Benefit

“Cut Cold Sore
Healing Time
In Half”
Specific & Numeric
BE REAL
Tell the TRUTH &
do what you promise.
Common Sense
Expert Testimonial
Pedigree

15 Years Old
Exclusively Matured In
Sherry Oak Casks
Demonstration - Visualization
Sensory Feedback
What a Guarantee!
Dramatically Different
(Harvard Business Review)

370%
Greater chance of profitable
success for ideas that are
Extremely/Very Unique
How Many Ideas Do We Need?
3,000 raw ideas result in
300 written up resulting in
125 projects resulting in
17 project development efforts
1.7 projects introduced
For 1.0 success...

.03% Success Rate
Where do we find innovative ideas?

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What is Possible?

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I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty
uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The
phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde
Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in what oredr the
ltteers in a word are, the olny iprmoatnt
tihng is that the first and last ltteer be in the
rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and
you can still raed it wouthit a porbelm. This
is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed
ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as
a wlohe.. Amzanig huh?

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Creativity
Edward De Bono
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Western thinking
Lateral thinking
PO (Provocative Operation)
Six Hats

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Creativity
Howard Gardner
 get infant-like
 three conditions
- expertise
- relevant domain
- backed by experts

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Clones create Clones
What do you see when you
see a rose?

Beauty
Beauty
Beauty
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Diversity at Work!
What do you see when you
see a rose?

Beauty
Vitamin
C Tea
Rose Water

Tango
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How do you create a diverse environment?
HBDI

New Brain Research
http://live.wsj.com/video/what-is-your-cognitive-mode/61C1C2E3-248C-425F-999E-DBB23690C869.html?KEYWORDS=new+brain+research#!61C1C2E3-248C-425F-999E-DBB23690C869
Why do you need stimulus?
Where To Go On Vacation?
Related Stimulus
Unrelated Stimulus
Where can we find stimulus?
Traditional Ways…

Trends

Insights

Market

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A Fourth Way…

Reapplying Technologies from
One Category to Another
Create the next new
dramatically different
Golf idea
Golf Stimulus
Trends

 Big data - All knowing
 Social media - Mobile
 Sustainability - Societal
 Consumer Power - Connected
Technology

 Bluetooth strip on neck
 Memory implants
 Temporary Social Media
 Prenatal DNA Sequencing

Insights

 I play to forget my troubles
 I like to play with my women’s group
 I want to drive longer than my friends
 I want to win the bet, even 1 Euro
Market

 Non golf revenue at clubs growing
 Spa and full restaurants at 19th hole
 +18 % increase in golf holes played
 Golf & poker days, ‘bogo’
Borrowed Brilliance

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Fedex
Ben and Jerry’s
Hult Intl Bus School
Emirates Airlines

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General Electric
Sachin ‘Little Master’
Boston Red Sox
United Nations
Golf Stimulus
Trends

 Big data - All knowing
 Social media - Mobile
 Sustainability - Societal
 Consumer Power - Connected
Technology

 Bluetooth strip on neck
 Memory implants
 Temporary Social Media
 Prenatal DNA Sequencing

Insights

 I play to forget my troubles
 I like to play with my women’s group
 I want to drive longer than my friends
 I want to win the bet, even 1 Euro
Market

 Non golf revenue at clubs growing
 Spa and full restaurants at 19th hole
 +18 % increase in golf holes played
 Golf & poker days, ‘bogo’
PO – Lateral Thinking

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Change the normal order
Break a category ‘law”
Reapply a new technology
Eliminate a critical function
Exaggerate a positive
Golf Stimulus
Trends

 Big data - All knowing
 Social media - Mobile
 Sustainability - Societal
 Consumer Power - Connected
Technology

 Bluetooth strip on neck
 Memory implants
 Temporary Social Media
 Prenatal DNA Sequencing

Insights

 I play to forget my troubles
 I like to play with my women’s group
 I want to drive longer than my friends
 I want to win the bet, even 1 Euro
Market

 Non golf revenue at clubs growing
 Spa and full restaurants at 19th hole
 +18 % increase in golf holes played
 Golf & poker days, ‘bogo’
Create the next new
dramatically different
Golf idea
How Does an Idea Become
an Opportunity?
Experience Hult 2013 - Prof Tom Hall

Experience Hult 2013 - Prof Tom Hall

Editor's Notes

  • #2 This quote by Peter Drucker highlights the importance of marketing to organizational success.
  • #16 What Is A Benefit: • How the new product or service will serve the customer. • What’s in it for ME! • What will the product do to improve, enhance, or change for the better the quality of life. • Benefits listen to the wants and needs of customers Overtly Articulate Benefits • Beware of “Implied” benefits and of beating around the bush....beware of BS • If you are overt in communication you receive full force. If you utilize an implied benefit, you reduce the net impact of the communication. To be really simple about it.... • Example....a pipe flowing at 100 gal/min.....close the valve half way 50 gal/min - It takes twice as long....it costs twice as much in media • Consumers are overwhelmed…they only use about 2% of the available information • You can not insult someone when talking about their need fulfillment • Don’t show off what you have...tell what you can do for them Increasing Focus On Benefit Causes Many Challenges • Unarticulated benefits • Archetype research where we get in touch with inner child • It’s a challenge in many over worked categories How to find benefits • Love your brand...often times we don’t love them like we should • Answer the question....Don’t Sell Me......Sell Me...... • There are always ways to uniquely communicate benefit - Look at the world in a different way..... (Gillette story) Benefits can be EMOTIONAL or RATIONAL • We’re not talking about just emotional words • We’re talking about emotional Benefits - Nike....aspirational- How it’ll make you feel • The more intangible, the more important strategy becomes Overt Visualization of Benefit • Magic Moments • Pictures tell the story • Rocket Package (Get other great examples) • Perfection Game
  • #21 Impact of DIFFERENT REASONS TO BELIEVE (no difference) Overt Articulation of Reason to Believe - The more unique the benefit the greater the importance of reason to believe 41 % Pedigree : Benefits are supported through a tangible pedigree such as history of the products creation, the company who created it or the source of the formula or the technology behind the idea. 46 % Demonstration: Shows the product in use providing tangible support that it will do what it says it will do. 42 % Overt Kitchen Logic: Overtly articulates why and how the benefit will be delivered in common sense language. 34 % Implied Kitchen Logic: The concept uses inference as to why the product works. It implies common sense. 45 % Sensory Feedback: Provides sensory feedback that the benefit is being delivered. 41% Testimonial: Overt endorsement of the delivery of the benefit. (customers, research studies, celebrities, experts, etc.) 60 % Guarantee: The company promises the customer will receive something back if the benefit is not delivered. Varies Mortgage A Name: Leverage an existing brand name that has a trust equity with customers. Household Name = 51 % Not A Household Name = 35 %
  • #22 Impact of DIFFERENT REASONS TO BELIEVE (no difference) Overt Articulation of Reason to Believe - The more unique the benefit the greater the importance of reason to believe 41 % Pedigree : Benefits are supported through a tangible pedigree such as history of the products creation, the company who created it or the source of the formula or the technology behind the idea. 46 % Demonstration: Shows the product in use providing tangible support that it will do what it says it will do. 42 % Overt Kitchen Logic: Overtly articulates why and how the benefit will be delivered in common sense language. 34 % Implied Kitchen Logic: The concept uses inference as to why the product works. It implies common sense. 45 % Sensory Feedback: Provides sensory feedback that the benefit is being delivered. 41% Testimonial: Overt endorsement of the delivery of the benefit. (customers, research studies, celebrities, experts, etc.) 60 % Guarantee: The company promises the customer will receive something back if the benefit is not delivered. Varies Mortgage A Name: Leverage an existing brand name that has a trust equity with customers. Household Name = 51 % Not A Household Name = 35 %
  • #23 Impact of DIFFERENT REASONS TO BELIEVE (no difference) Overt Articulation of Reason to Believe - The more unique the benefit the greater the importance of reason to believe 41 % Pedigree : Benefits are supported through a tangible pedigree such as history of the products creation, the company who created it or the source of the formula or the technology behind the idea. 46 % Demonstration: Shows the product in use providing tangible support that it will do what it says it will do. 42 % Overt Kitchen Logic: Overtly articulates why and how the benefit will be delivered in common sense language. 34 % Implied Kitchen Logic: The concept uses inference as to why the product works. It implies common sense. 45 % Sensory Feedback: Provides sensory feedback that the benefit is being delivered. 41% Testimonial: Overt endorsement of the delivery of the benefit. (customers, research studies, celebrities, experts, etc.) 60 % Guarantee: The company promises the customer will receive something back if the benefit is not delivered. Varies Mortgage A Name: Leverage an existing brand name that has a trust equity with customers. Household Name = 51 % Not A Household Name = 35 %
  • #36 Eureka! Bootcamp RECAP JUMP START YOUR BRAIN LOGO The Universal Theory of Creativity Ideas = (BOS) S FF WINNING WAYS LOGO Marketing Physics™ First Law: Overt Benefits Customers maintain established behaviors until they come in contact with an overtly appealing alternative benefit force. Marketing Physics™ Second Law: Real Reason To Believe A new brand will hit the market with a trial force equal to the strength of its benefit times the strength of it’s reason to belive. Thus: Trial Force = B x RTB. Marketing Physics™ Third Law: Dramatic Difference The only way to disrupt marketplace equilibrium is through introducing a benefit and reason to believe pair that is significantly different than currently exists.
  • #42 Flip back and forth between the two options. Back to stimulus When deciding what to do on vacation - Blank sheet with numbers - Photo - Repeat, repeat...which is easier stimulus multiplies ideas in your mind, like crossing waves in the ocean Vacation Example 1. Blank Sheet 2. Here’s the old way A. You come up with a list of tired ideas - grandma’s, Disney, Walt’s Gator Farm B. Vacation Stimulus Shot: C. How many more ideas will you get when you let your mind react with all of these things? D. Is it cheating? NO, it’s smart.