Former heavy weight giants like Kodak and AOL collapsed—yet even today the lessons learned may take down tech titans like Amazon, Google, and Meta as they are at risk of the same fate if they stop innovating. In a world where running the business is no longer enough, learn how companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Intuit thrive by relentlessly reinventing themselves. Will today’s leaders choose to run the future, or be left behind? Dive in to explore the innovation imperative and the consequences of complacency
Category: Past Experience
Balancing OKRs with the Basics: Keeping Growth and Brand Marketing on Track
Brand Marketing ,General Management ,OKRs ,Past ExperienceAugust 25, 2024
cezanne
Its been awhile since I’ve posted folks, sorry! While on a new journey and as I look back you know, I had this realization. It’s easy to get wrapped up in the shiny, new stuff like OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), but sometimes, we might end up spending so much time on them that we […]
Is there such a thing as Brand Response Marketing?
Brand Marketing ,DTC ,General Management ,Past ExperienceMarch 26, 2023
cezanne
Whatever happened to #brand response #marketing? Or the idea that brand marketing actually does drive down funnel productivity, cost efficiencies and conversions? How about the taboo idea that performance marketing can actually create aided recall and awareness? The digitization of all things whether fully or minimally, I would say nowadays, everything is a brand experience, and everything is […]
February 5, 2023
cezanne
With data across a more diverse set of industries, business models and companies, the insights and learnings could be an interesting way to help founders, CEOs or growth leaders detect crucial inflection points proactively.
January 15, 2023
cezanne
Is ChatGPT a Google killer/ “something” killer or just a new Miscrosft word plugin? I see it as the latter, Google crawled, collected and collated information and matched folks to that information, better. For many that was an incredible improvement in user satisfaction over the likes of Excite/Infoseek/Yahoo and was enough to defer the user’s […]
December 11, 2022
cezanne
2023 is nearly here, we are all returning to work and increasing business travel, I’ve been bombarded by (OOH) ads. Per, Wikipedia, “Out-of-home (OOH) advertising, also called outdoor advertising, outdoor media, and out-of-home media, is advertising experienced outside of the home. This includes billboards, wallscapes, and posters seen while “on the go”. It also includes place-based media seen in places such as convenience […]
Amazon buys Whole Foods, boy times, they are a changing…the courtship of digital is ending
Digital Transformation ,General Management ,Past ExperienceSeptember 2, 2017
cezanne
Why would Amazon buy Whole Foods? Ironically, the answer is in the name, Amazon. The amazon jungle is the life blood of the western hemisphere providing the ecosystem and environment to nourish over a billion in population and drives civilizations largest economies. According to Wikipedia, the Amazon represents over half of the planet’s remaining rain-forests, and […]
Agile principles in digital marketing and acquisition
Digital Marketing Innovation ,Digital Strategy ,Digital Transformation ,Past ExperienceMarch 24, 2013
cezanne
In the past decade or two, I’ve had the opportunity to truly explore and learn more about the “supply chain” of digital marketing through the lens of an agency and from the view of an in-house digital marketing executive. I’ve also had the opportunity to work within the top most important verticals such as Financial […]
January 18, 2012
cezanne
So, of course, I Google myself. Who doesn’t? Well the other day, I went really deep into the results and found the NY Daily News article from 2000! I was clearly on some other planet, wow! It was fun reminiscing and so I thought I’d share this very embarrassing article. You could say this was […]