In today’s competitive environment, innovation—in its many forms—is more important than ever. How have many small, under-resourced businesses come so far so quickly, and what can you learn from their strategies and tactics? Renowned experts in global branding and marketing explore innovation and the role it plays in a company’s success. Rajeev Batra, the S.S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at the U of M’s Ross School of Business, moderates. He leads Professor Srinivasaraghavan Sriram and other panelists in discussing how to innovate with your brand, how to bypass key bottlenecks when initiating innovation and how to use disruptive innovation to gain competitive advantage. Professor Batra will also share insights from his recently published (May 2012 McGraw Hill) book that outlines disruptive ‘compete from below’ strategies used by low resourced companies to gain competitive advantage.
Branding is an often under-utilized tool in the small business owner's tool belt. The methods used to choose and build the brand are not clearly understood leaving a huge marketing opportunity untapped.
Small Business Owners will learn to choose, build and protect the brands they use for their business, products and services. A company's brand can become a very valuable asset if the business chooses it properly and consistently builds it.
- Choosing your names and brands
- Methods for building and using the brand
- How to protect your brands
TechWadi Event Booklet – Silicon Valley GTF (Mar/18/2010)rocaveli
Agenda and Speaker Biographies for our first Global Technology Forum of 2010, held on March 18, 2010 at the PlugandPlayTechCenter incubator in Sunnyvale, California.
Katallaxy is a strategic marketing firm. We help companies of all sizes find opportunities in the marketplace, and fulfill those opportunities profitably. The business solutions we deliver reflect our practical experience, our multi-disciplined approach and our dynamic, entrepreneurial model.
In the end, we help companies commercialize products, drive adoption and usage, and build brands.
Driving Profitable Growth through Major Strategic Innovations by Jeff Goldste...CincyInnovates
In recent years it has become evident that strategic innovation is critical to corporate success and even survival. Achieving success with new brands, flankers, business units, new ways to-go-to market and change the game licenses and partnerships requires deeper and more objective assessment of the consumer, the category and the competition. Jeff will discuss how profitably managing ROI on innovation is really about managing the risks of learning, fully understanding the costs of acquiring and retaining new users, and most of all, executing the core innovation elements with excellence. Mr. Goldstein’s presentation will provide an overview of key concepts for success in major new businesses, licensing/partnerships and acquisitions and will reveal common mistakes made by innovation managers and entrepreneurs. He will also discuss 5 models for licensing/partnerships, overlooked components of volume and thinking like direct marketers.
Objectives
• Why should you lead innovation within your company?
• What should you do to encourage innovation?
• How do you harness the power of innovation to increase your company’s value and minimize risk?
Description
Innovation is a central element of business growth strategy within companies that aim to generate added value for their customers, the company itself, and other stakeholders. While many company executives and business leaders agree that in order for their companies to survive today’s increasingly global marketplace, they must face the unpleasant truth that there may have to be fundamental changes in who they are, what they do, and how they do it. Few executives feel their companies are good at the specific processes and tactics frequently tied to successful innovation, such as generating breakthrough ideas, selecting the right ideas, prototyping, and developing business cases. We will provide insights to help you define and implement a process to drive innovation within your company using a sustainable approach to ignite business growth.
The speaker will discuss how you can leverage innovation as a resource to help shape a better future for your company’s growth and your career. These insights will help you increase creativity, nurture collaboration and lead activities to transform innovation to profit. He will identify the value of innovation, methodologies, and concrete steps you can take to foster innovation within your company.
Who Should Attend
This discussion is for entrepreneurs, business owners, company executives and senior managers who want to increase their company’s value and accelerate their professional careers by leading product innovation efforts.
Connect with me via LinkedIn at http://linkd.in/hdelcastillo with comments or questions regarding this topic.
Contact me for more information regarding AIPMM membership or training courses planned in your area.
Let me know how I can help you create and implement a product strategy and product planning process to successfully grow your business.
Branding is an often under-utilized tool in the small business owner's tool belt. The methods used to choose and build the brand are not clearly understood leaving a huge marketing opportunity untapped.
Small Business Owners will learn to choose, build and protect the brands they use for their business, products and services. A company's brand can become a very valuable asset if the business chooses it properly and consistently builds it.
- Choosing your names and brands
- Methods for building and using the brand
- How to protect your brands
TechWadi Event Booklet – Silicon Valley GTF (Mar/18/2010)rocaveli
Agenda and Speaker Biographies for our first Global Technology Forum of 2010, held on March 18, 2010 at the PlugandPlayTechCenter incubator in Sunnyvale, California.
Katallaxy is a strategic marketing firm. We help companies of all sizes find opportunities in the marketplace, and fulfill those opportunities profitably. The business solutions we deliver reflect our practical experience, our multi-disciplined approach and our dynamic, entrepreneurial model.
In the end, we help companies commercialize products, drive adoption and usage, and build brands.
Driving Profitable Growth through Major Strategic Innovations by Jeff Goldste...CincyInnovates
In recent years it has become evident that strategic innovation is critical to corporate success and even survival. Achieving success with new brands, flankers, business units, new ways to-go-to market and change the game licenses and partnerships requires deeper and more objective assessment of the consumer, the category and the competition. Jeff will discuss how profitably managing ROI on innovation is really about managing the risks of learning, fully understanding the costs of acquiring and retaining new users, and most of all, executing the core innovation elements with excellence. Mr. Goldstein’s presentation will provide an overview of key concepts for success in major new businesses, licensing/partnerships and acquisitions and will reveal common mistakes made by innovation managers and entrepreneurs. He will also discuss 5 models for licensing/partnerships, overlooked components of volume and thinking like direct marketers.
Objectives
• Why should you lead innovation within your company?
• What should you do to encourage innovation?
• How do you harness the power of innovation to increase your company’s value and minimize risk?
Description
Innovation is a central element of business growth strategy within companies that aim to generate added value for their customers, the company itself, and other stakeholders. While many company executives and business leaders agree that in order for their companies to survive today’s increasingly global marketplace, they must face the unpleasant truth that there may have to be fundamental changes in who they are, what they do, and how they do it. Few executives feel their companies are good at the specific processes and tactics frequently tied to successful innovation, such as generating breakthrough ideas, selecting the right ideas, prototyping, and developing business cases. We will provide insights to help you define and implement a process to drive innovation within your company using a sustainable approach to ignite business growth.
The speaker will discuss how you can leverage innovation as a resource to help shape a better future for your company’s growth and your career. These insights will help you increase creativity, nurture collaboration and lead activities to transform innovation to profit. He will identify the value of innovation, methodologies, and concrete steps you can take to foster innovation within your company.
Who Should Attend
This discussion is for entrepreneurs, business owners, company executives and senior managers who want to increase their company’s value and accelerate their professional careers by leading product innovation efforts.
Connect with me via LinkedIn at http://linkd.in/hdelcastillo with comments or questions regarding this topic.
Contact me for more information regarding AIPMM membership or training courses planned in your area.
Let me know how I can help you create and implement a product strategy and product planning process to successfully grow your business.
As brand is considered one of the most important aspect of the company right now specially the value of brand increased day by day.
This slide will give strong view of brand & its management
Regards
Rajesh Kumar
Manager: Digital Marketing
JR Infotech.com(www.jrinfotech.com)
Visiting prof : IMT-CDL, IP university
Introduction
Innovation is a central element of business growth strategy within companies that aim to generate added value for their customers, the company itself, and other stakeholders. While many company executives and business leaders agree that in order for their companies to survive today’s increasingly global marketplace, they must face the unpleasant truth that there may have to be fundamental changes in who they are, what they do, and how they do it. Few executives feel their companies are good at the specific processes and tactics frequently tied to successful innovation, such as generating breakthrough ideas, selecting the right ideas, prototyping, and developing business cases. We will provide insights to help you define and implement a process to drive innovation within your company using a sustainable approach to ignite business growth.
Key Takeaways
1. Discover insights.
• Discover unmet customer needs
• Identify customer segments
• Know your competitive landscape
2. Align strategies with needs.
• Create alignment
• Communicate strategic objectives
3. Mind your company’s culture.
• Focus on shared values
• Eliminate organizational silos
4. Adopt a process.
• Integrate innovation
• Identify key resources
• Define key deliverables
5. Deliver value, success will follow.
• Direct the internal value chain
6. Align your business model
• Use leading productivity tools
• Make your business case
Connect with me for more information regarding AIPMM membership or certification courses in your area.
Let me know how I can help you create and implement a product strategy and product planning process successfully to grow your technology-based business.
Hector Del Castillo, AIPMM
linkd.in/hdelcastillo
Netz Capital Early stage venture capital fundAtul Khekade
Netz Capital Early Stage venture capital fund and advisory. Presentation delivered during Indian Venture capital journal event at Taj Lands End, Bandra, Mumbai, India
Introduction
The creation of successful products is essential for companies that want to grow or maintain a competitive advantage. Many organizations lack a clearly defined and understood product strategy.
We will discuss the importance of the AIPMM Product Management Framework (PMF) to define and implement a process to conceive, plan and market your company’s products at each stage of their life cycle. We will identify key activities to align business and product strategy with unmet customer needs to create value for your business.
We will describe the typical product life cycle from concept to launch and through product retirement. We will also discuss why growing organizations need to implement a formal product management process to support their product strategy.
Objectives
* Why do you need to define the right product strategy?
* What are the benefits of implementing a product planning process?
* What do you need to constantly create insanely great products?
Contact me at http:/linkd.in/hdelcastillo for more information regarding AIPMM membership or certification courses in your area.
Let me know how I can help you accelerate your career, or create and implement a product strategy and product planning process successfully to grow your business.
Broad analisis of the biggest company in the world. It includes WalMart history, internal and external analysis and a focus on WalMart's internationalization with some suggestions for the future.
Creating, nurturing, developing and managing brands - A Snapshot of a 2 day w...Anand Mehta
This is a snapshot of a 2 day workshop on Creating, Nurturing, Developing and Managing Brands through their lifecycle. It indicates the flow of such a program and the possible case studies that could be covered under the program.
Learning Objectives
• Why do you need to define a product strategy for your company?
• What are the benefits of implementing a product planning process?
• What do you need to create successful products consistently?
Description
The creation of successful products is essential for companies that want to grow or maintain a competitive advantage. Many organizations lack a clearly defined and understood product strategy. We will discuss the benefits of adopting the Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM) Product Management Framework (PMF) to align your business and product strategies with unmet customer needs and market trends to create value for your business using a sustainable approach.
Audience
This presentation is for product managers, marketers, entrepreneurs, innovators, and technology-based business owners that want to expand their knowledge about how to create successful products that customers demand.
For more info, connect with Hector Del Castillo at http:/linkd.in/hdelcastillo.
Katallaxy is a strategic marketing firm. We help companies of all sizes find opportunities in the marketplace, and fulfill those opportunities profitably. The business solutions we deliver reflect our practical
experience, our multi-disciplined approach and our dynamic, entrepreneurial model.
In the end, we help companies commercialize products, drive adoption and usage, and build brands.
This is the first part in a two part presentation aimed at an Executive MBA class for a leading institution in Bangalore. The content focuses on introducing concepts around strategy as a foundation to Strategic HRM. Aside from introducing the relationship, it does not delve in Strategic HRM per se since that is handled in subsequent sessions.
Go To Market – Case – Demandware RebrandingMichael Skok
While we looked at initial branding for startups here, in this case study we discuss a more mature example with Demandware, a company that is now past its IPO and was looking to rebrand to extend its leadership and position the company for continued growth.
The Product Manager Pathfinder v2 - Steve Wells at ProductCamp Boston, April ...ProductCamp Boston
ProductCamp Boston April 2011 *********
Tips to help you accelerate your career
- Key principles to succeed in Product Management and Product Marketing
- Key practices and tools to help you progress in your career
- Audience testimonials sharing career path stories
Introduction
The creation of successful products is essential for companies that want to grow or maintain a competitive advantage. Many organizations lack a clearly defined and understood product strategy. We will discuss the importance of the AIPMM Product Management Framework (PMF) to define and implement a process to conceive, plan and market your company’s products at each stage of their life cycle. We will identify key activities to align business and product strategy with unmet customer needs to create value for your business. We will describe the typical product life cycle from concept to launch and through product retirement. We will also discuss why growing organizations need to implement a formal product management process to support their product strategy.
Key Points:
* Why do you need to define a product strategy for your company?
* What are the benefits of implementing a product planning process?
* What do you need to create successful products consistently?
Connect with me at http:/linkd.in/hdelcastillo for more information regarding AIPMM membership or certification courses in your area.
Let me know how I can help you create and implement a product strategy and product planning process successfully to grow your technology-based business.
As brand is considered one of the most important aspect of the company right now specially the value of brand increased day by day.
This slide will give strong view of brand & its management
Regards
Rajesh Kumar
Manager: Digital Marketing
JR Infotech.com(www.jrinfotech.com)
Visiting prof : IMT-CDL, IP university
Introduction
Innovation is a central element of business growth strategy within companies that aim to generate added value for their customers, the company itself, and other stakeholders. While many company executives and business leaders agree that in order for their companies to survive today’s increasingly global marketplace, they must face the unpleasant truth that there may have to be fundamental changes in who they are, what they do, and how they do it. Few executives feel their companies are good at the specific processes and tactics frequently tied to successful innovation, such as generating breakthrough ideas, selecting the right ideas, prototyping, and developing business cases. We will provide insights to help you define and implement a process to drive innovation within your company using a sustainable approach to ignite business growth.
Key Takeaways
1. Discover insights.
• Discover unmet customer needs
• Identify customer segments
• Know your competitive landscape
2. Align strategies with needs.
• Create alignment
• Communicate strategic objectives
3. Mind your company’s culture.
• Focus on shared values
• Eliminate organizational silos
4. Adopt a process.
• Integrate innovation
• Identify key resources
• Define key deliverables
5. Deliver value, success will follow.
• Direct the internal value chain
6. Align your business model
• Use leading productivity tools
• Make your business case
Connect with me for more information regarding AIPMM membership or certification courses in your area.
Let me know how I can help you create and implement a product strategy and product planning process successfully to grow your technology-based business.
Hector Del Castillo, AIPMM
linkd.in/hdelcastillo
Netz Capital Early stage venture capital fundAtul Khekade
Netz Capital Early Stage venture capital fund and advisory. Presentation delivered during Indian Venture capital journal event at Taj Lands End, Bandra, Mumbai, India
Introduction
The creation of successful products is essential for companies that want to grow or maintain a competitive advantage. Many organizations lack a clearly defined and understood product strategy.
We will discuss the importance of the AIPMM Product Management Framework (PMF) to define and implement a process to conceive, plan and market your company’s products at each stage of their life cycle. We will identify key activities to align business and product strategy with unmet customer needs to create value for your business.
We will describe the typical product life cycle from concept to launch and through product retirement. We will also discuss why growing organizations need to implement a formal product management process to support their product strategy.
Objectives
* Why do you need to define the right product strategy?
* What are the benefits of implementing a product planning process?
* What do you need to constantly create insanely great products?
Contact me at http:/linkd.in/hdelcastillo for more information regarding AIPMM membership or certification courses in your area.
Let me know how I can help you accelerate your career, or create and implement a product strategy and product planning process successfully to grow your business.
Broad analisis of the biggest company in the world. It includes WalMart history, internal and external analysis and a focus on WalMart's internationalization with some suggestions for the future.
Creating, nurturing, developing and managing brands - A Snapshot of a 2 day w...Anand Mehta
This is a snapshot of a 2 day workshop on Creating, Nurturing, Developing and Managing Brands through their lifecycle. It indicates the flow of such a program and the possible case studies that could be covered under the program.
Learning Objectives
• Why do you need to define a product strategy for your company?
• What are the benefits of implementing a product planning process?
• What do you need to create successful products consistently?
Description
The creation of successful products is essential for companies that want to grow or maintain a competitive advantage. Many organizations lack a clearly defined and understood product strategy. We will discuss the benefits of adopting the Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM) Product Management Framework (PMF) to align your business and product strategies with unmet customer needs and market trends to create value for your business using a sustainable approach.
Audience
This presentation is for product managers, marketers, entrepreneurs, innovators, and technology-based business owners that want to expand their knowledge about how to create successful products that customers demand.
For more info, connect with Hector Del Castillo at http:/linkd.in/hdelcastillo.
Katallaxy is a strategic marketing firm. We help companies of all sizes find opportunities in the marketplace, and fulfill those opportunities profitably. The business solutions we deliver reflect our practical
experience, our multi-disciplined approach and our dynamic, entrepreneurial model.
In the end, we help companies commercialize products, drive adoption and usage, and build brands.
This is the first part in a two part presentation aimed at an Executive MBA class for a leading institution in Bangalore. The content focuses on introducing concepts around strategy as a foundation to Strategic HRM. Aside from introducing the relationship, it does not delve in Strategic HRM per se since that is handled in subsequent sessions.
Go To Market – Case – Demandware RebrandingMichael Skok
While we looked at initial branding for startups here, in this case study we discuss a more mature example with Demandware, a company that is now past its IPO and was looking to rebrand to extend its leadership and position the company for continued growth.
The Product Manager Pathfinder v2 - Steve Wells at ProductCamp Boston, April ...ProductCamp Boston
ProductCamp Boston April 2011 *********
Tips to help you accelerate your career
- Key principles to succeed in Product Management and Product Marketing
- Key practices and tools to help you progress in your career
- Audience testimonials sharing career path stories
Introduction
The creation of successful products is essential for companies that want to grow or maintain a competitive advantage. Many organizations lack a clearly defined and understood product strategy. We will discuss the importance of the AIPMM Product Management Framework (PMF) to define and implement a process to conceive, plan and market your company’s products at each stage of their life cycle. We will identify key activities to align business and product strategy with unmet customer needs to create value for your business. We will describe the typical product life cycle from concept to launch and through product retirement. We will also discuss why growing organizations need to implement a formal product management process to support their product strategy.
Key Points:
* Why do you need to define a product strategy for your company?
* What are the benefits of implementing a product planning process?
* What do you need to create successful products consistently?
Connect with me at http:/linkd.in/hdelcastillo for more information regarding AIPMM membership or certification courses in your area.
Let me know how I can help you create and implement a product strategy and product planning process successfully to grow your technology-based business.
Michigan Marketing Minds - April 14, 2015 - Creating CustomersAnnArborSPARK
Great concept. Perceived need. Solid technology.
Now your challenge is: getting people to try it.
How will you identify your best prospects? How will you open the door? How will you get them hooked? How will you keep them engaged? In sum: What’s your plan to find, win, and grow profitable customer relationships?
Often the process starts with highly targeted prospecting – that is: Choose who you want to do business with. And get the conversation started.
Successful entrepreneurs will tell how they tightly focused on strategic beachheads – then grew out from them – to establish market leadership.
Selling Smart Workshop - April 1, 2015 - People Buy Emotionally, Justify Inte...AnnArborSPARK
In this session, you will learn how to define a prospect’s needs, wants, challenges, and/or problems, or “pain.” You will learn the three components of pain and how to use specific questioning techniques to prompt the prospect’s internal motivation. Additionally, you will learn how to qualify or disqualify the opportunity based on whether your product or service could solve the problems identified.
Michigan Marketing Minds - March 10, 2015 - Field notes on brand positioning ...AnnArborSPARK
Discover, explore and learn new ways to position your brand for customer engagement and advocacy. Session leader Scott Hauman will share and review real world brand definition methods and strategies that will help you shape your company, product or service brand for success.
Michigan Marketing Minds - January 13, 2015 - Marketing 101: Your Marketing PlanAnnArborSPARK
One of the keys to success for any business is to develop a strategic marketing plan. It can be a comprehensive, integrated plan or a one-pager. Pavan Muzumdar of PSI Insight kicks off this session by presenting a strategic framework that will help you align your thinking for the year. Don Hart then follows up to help you with a homework assignment of crafting your own One-Pager 2015 Plan.
Selling Smart Workshop - September 10, 2014 - Pitching Your Business for Emot...AnnArborSPARK
Most people blather-on to prospective customers about all of the stuff they love about their product or service, and then wonder why the prospect doesn’t “get it”. This session will demonstrate and then help you to state your business in a brief, targeted way so a prospective customer will appreciate your value, and get emotionally involved enough to want to know more about your offerings.
Michigan Marketing Minds - September 9, 2014 - Expressing Thought Leadership:...AnnArborSPARK
The Three Keys to Modern Marketing: Content, Content, Content...
Panelists will tell how their companies’ innovative content marketing strategies have helped them:
-establish thought leadership within their industries,
-get found by the right kinds of customers,
-build strong brands that stand apart from the competition,
-increase preference among customers ready to buy.
8. Four Types of Strategies
Go to Similar Go to Different
Markets Markets
Use Existing “KNOWLEDGE “COST
Competencies LEVERAGER” LEADER”
“NICHE “GLOBAL
Build New BRAND-BUILDER”
Competencies CUSTOMIZER”
In R&D, Innovation, -- THROUGH
“Insight” FOCUSED
LOW-COST
INNOVATION
-- THROUGH
BRAND
ACQUISITION/JV
(SOFT TOUCH)
10. Four Types of Strategies
Go to Similar Go to Different
Markets Markets
Use Existing “KNOWLEDGE “COST
Competencies LEVERAGER” LEADER”
“NICHE “GLOBAL
Build New BRAND-BUILDER”
Competencies CUSTOMIZER‖
In R&D, Innovation, -- THROUGH
“Insight” FOCUSED
LOW-COST
INNOVATION
-- THROUGH
BRAND
ACQUISITION/JV
(SOFT TOUCH)
Initiating Coverage on Godrej Consumer Products:GCPL is present in 3 segments namely soaps, household insecticides and hair colours. In each of these segments the company is a market leader or at No. 2 position. The company has been continuously investing behind its brands to gain ground over competition and have created super brands over the decade. The company’s 3x3 strategy (presence in 3 continents and 3 categories) shows its clear focus to attend to its strengths rather than diversify into the unknown. Cross synergies from continents will enable growth across geographies and segments and help the company achieve its target of 20%+ topline grow for next 3-4 years.1) Growth Drivers…a. Cross synergies of distribution network in standalone business with the amalgamation of Sara Lee operations.b. With a penetration of 25-30% in rural India the company has scope to increase penetration in rural India for household insecticides.c. Growth returning to hair colour segment in India by leveraging on crème based sachet technology from Latin America business.d. The structural change in demand from unorganized to organized in soaps segment in rural India to support volume growth.e. Africa, the largest contributor to consolidated revenues to see inorganic growth from full year consolidation of Darling Group, while organic business growth of is expected at 15%+. The company is expected to launch of insecticides in late FY13 early FY14 in the African continent.f. Latam business to grow on the back of increased penetration through geographical diversification, product innovation, and consolidation of Chilean acquisition.g. Asia (ex-India) (i.e Indonesia) business to grow on the back of disruptive launch of Magic paper which is eating into the coil market.h. Cross launches across geographies to yield growth. The company plans to launch Stella (air care brand) from Indonesian operations in India and launch insecticides in Africa.2) Profitability Drivers…a. Premiumisation across hair colour segment.b. Increasing share of vaporizer and aerosols to improve pricing power.c. Conscious effort to acquire companies with better operating profit margins than standalone business to prop up profitability.d. With the acquisition of fully integrated Darling group in Africa to enable in-house sourcing for Kinky and improve margins in that geography.e. Chilean acquisition at 20%+ margins to improve margins in Latam business.3) Increased distribution, product innovation and brand investment to support growth.4) Synergistic benefits from global operations to auger well for the company.5) Temasek Investment helping to lower debt levels. Debt to net worth ratio to come down to 0.6 by FY13.Risks:- Business risks of synergies across geographies - Hired professionals and management native to the country.- Forex risk exposure to debt and translation - Team of specialist managing hedging exposure for volatility management.- Risk of rising competition in hair colour in India - Aggressive ad campaign to gain back share coupled with premiumisation of portfolio.- Volatility in raw material costs.Valuations:The company is on a healthy growth trajectory for the next few years on the back of its organic growth, cross launches across geographies, and product innovation. Profitability to improve as the company moves to premiumise its portfolio and indulge in cost synergies. Way2Wealth like the vision of the management to grow the business while investing in emerging economies. It plans to focus on it 3 mainstay segments where it commands market leadership. At the current CMP of Rs450.5 the stock trades at 21 times and 20 times FY12 and FY13 expected EPS of Rs21 (includes Rs5 exceptional item) and Rs23 respectively. Way2Wealth recommend the investors to “Accumulate” the stock for 15%+ upside from these levels.