Archives tagged: communication

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Five Steps to Planning for the Future

By Tim J. Smith, PhD April 2, 2003

In the Industrial Age, public and private enterprises built their future by the expansion of present technology, internal assumptions, and day to…

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EMNS Pricing Strategy

By Tim J. Smith, PhD April 2, 2003

As with all business products and services, the value of technological offerings is determined by the benefits provided to customers. Greater benefits…

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Best Practices: SmartSynch’s Partnership

By Tim J. Smith, PhD March 19, 2003

There are many go-to-market strategies for new technologies. Firms can build their own sales and marketing team and go-direct, take a licensing…

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Adding A Little Strategy to the Juice: The Quaker-Snapple Debacle Revisited

By Tim J. Smith, PhD March 19, 2003

Even given today’s disastrous mergers and acquisitions environment, Quaker’s handling of its 1993 acquisition of Snapple remains the quintessence of what not…

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Buzzbait’s Growth Challenge

By Tim J. Smith, PhD February 19, 2003

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Buzzbait, a creative web design, development, and integration firm, has been repeatedly praised…

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Patents and Licensing

By Tim J. Smith, PhD February 19, 2003

An expected competitive advantage resulting from a new product improvement generates considerable excitement in your workplace. You share in the excitement but…

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Accelerate Rapport-Accelerate Your Sales

By Tim J. Smith, PhD February 5, 2003

Business developers know the importance of relationship in winning and growing business. Even in IT, sales is still a people business and…

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The fall of PR and the rise of Community-Centric Communications

By Tim J. Smith, PhD January 22, 2003

In his controversial new book “The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR,” marketing legend Al Ries argues that traditional advertising…

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Managing the Marketing Cycle

By Tim J. Smith, PhD December 11, 2002

The Deming Constant Improvement Cycle for business management can be simplified to measure, analyze, plan, and do. Sales and marketing, like other…

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Discordant Messages

By Tim J. Smith, PhD November 13, 2002

On Thursday, November 7th, Chicago hosted two events of high interest. At the Sheraton, business leaders met for the first day of…

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