Innovation. A living dichotomy that can represent either critical differentiation or a meaningless slogan. Every company wants its transformational capacity, but at the same time, as Wired magazine noted, “Innovation has become the buzzword of the decade in the worlds of business and education.” So...Read More
The numbers are all up, but nobody believes them. U.S. economic news looks better than it has for years, but a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll (in August 2014) found “widespread economic anxiety” at “record levels.” Why? The devastating Great Recession scarred millions, leading to stubborn...Read More
Cookie-cutter or stand-out? In the days before selfies and raw cut video, people were memorable for a reason. While I’ve had the privilege of meeting and working with a number of celebrities in my career, few top the class exhibited by the late Lauren Bacall. What might that mean for you and your personal...Read More
Should brands be strategically managed? Or should brands simply be an organic reflection of a company’s performance? Or do both come into play? An intriguing video “IBM on Brand” is making its way around the Internet. It’s a commendable 2:15 minutes of your time. Produced by long-time IBM brand...Read More
“Any given day at The MEK Group may involve helping an international medical manufacturing services company expand and capture U.S. market share, developing a premium brand and ad campaign for a communications enterprise, organizing industry leaders and academics to advance a technology region, or...Read More
“We did not develop this medicine [Nexavar] for Indians, we developed it for western patients who can afford it.” These inflammatory words, uttered by Bayer AG Chairman Marijn Dekkers at a Financial Times global pharmaceutical forum last month, have flared into an international firestorm,...Read More
Big hospitals know the power of brand. Given the intimate and highly individualized nature of healthcare decision making, big hospital marketing departments know that brand plays a key role in capturing market share from other hospitals, particularly smaller hospitals. That’s why they spend millions...Read More
Mega-communicator Roger Ailes notes that the first seven seconds of contact represent the critical ones. All kinds of events transpire. In those seven seconds, you make up your mind whether you like something or someone, and if you have a choice, you decide whether or not to continue a relationship,...Read More
