Insights for Strategic Marketing
7/2/12
Leo Lewis presenting at the Business Marketing Association
Leo Lewis, Principal at Corona Insights, is presenting at the Colorado BMA's July breakfast Roundtable. Come learn about the first steps in the strategic marketing planning process.
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5/17/12
Why strategy is important in understanding your environment
Why a company’s stated strategy is so important to ultimately understanding its External Situation and Environment. In order for the Internal Assessment process to be relevant to a marketing executive and the marketing planning process, we view the assessment as taking place both at the macro-company level as well as at the marketing organization level […]
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4/30/12
Ansoff’s Matrix and product market strategy
Where does Ansoff’s Matrix and product-market strategy fit in the strategic marketing process? So, we know a data- and information-driven Internal and External Situation Assessment, as partially summarized in some of my previous posts, will provide two main bodies of information: 1) output related to internal business unit strategic strengths and competencies; and 2) a […]
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4/15/12
A take on the interrelation between strategy frameworks
Marketing managers and executives: What would you do if you were asked to take several of the most common strategy tools and organize them to show how they interrelate for marketing planning and strategic decision making? (No peeking below!) The tools and frameworks to be considered, in no particular order, are: PEST, SWOT, the “5 […]
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4/9/12
Do your homework before using strategy models
The following is a graphic example of the GE/McKinsey matrix, a fairly well-known consulting framework that allows for visual representation of a market(s) that a company serves and where these market(s) are positioned relative to key factors such as level of market attractiveness (high, medium or low) and relative strength of the business unit (high, […]
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4/2/12
What is your marketing organization missing? If you don’t know, it could be time for an audit
That’s not to say that you’re definitely lacking something, but…let’s face it, there’s nearly always room for improvement, and quite often marketing organizations are missing something that’s pretty important. Findings of marketing audits commonly show that organizations typically lack a truly strategic approach in their marketing. The 1989 reprint and review of the original article (The […]
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2/13/12
A framework for data-driven strategic marketing
In case you missed the announcement, we’d like to mention again that here at Corona we’ve recently re-designed our website to be aligned with our customer groups by sector (business, nonprofit, and government). It was a decision inspired by our desire to acknowledge our customers’ unique needs across each of these areas. Honing in more […]
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