Ecosystems have always been a key driver of successful innovation in great companies like Microsoft, Apple and Amazon, but today, ecosystem innovation is taking centre stage. Louise Kelly, of Hearts and Minds, investigates how symbiotic value between companies is created in ecosystem innovation and the conditions that need to be in place for ideas to … Continue reading
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Bringing greater personalisation to the branded experience – lessons from Uber and Telsa
A look under the bonnet at the role personalisation has played in creating the world’s fastest growing company Uber and Telsa, a company which dreams and executes big, headed by the world’s next Steve Jobs, Elon Musk. By Louise Kelly of Hearts and Minds a brand focused customer experience consultancy and founder Thought Leaders Circle. … Continue reading
Augmented Holograms- ways of brands being seen
As we reflect on the shattered remains of the Google Glass flop into the marketplace, we begin to ask ourselves if not that, then what? The thing with being first is that you can never quite pick where the market will land. The left brained tech companies like Google and Sony have failed to make … Continue reading
Big branded worlds to build your brand online
Enter Pyongyang from JT Singh on Vimeo. Barcelona GO! from Rob Whitworth on Vimeo. Whitworth’s stunning worlds of Barcelona and Pyongyang Brands are about being seen, or more importantly seeing the brand in your world. Seeing the brand is more important than ever in this data and information rich world. We are all hungry for … Continue reading
Marketing innovation through personal brands
Many hold the belief in “an idea whose time has come”. They have a sense of a collective consciousness that births an idea or new concept at the right time, with ideas often born in many places, simultaneously. An artist or entrepreneur is perceived as the conduit through which an idea is born. Research by … Continue reading
The creative economy and the rise of employee entrepreneurs
Given that strategic initiative and change is daily, if not minute by minute, a business needs to be highly creative, if it is to keep pace in this hyper competitive marketplace. Creativity is at the heart of innovation and change, and to be creative your business needs to attract employee entrepreneurs. Creativity is not simply … Continue reading
Big brands fall as small community and social brands rise
As the world’s love affair with big brands dwindles and the billion dollar global brands of Proctor and Gamble and Unilever loose their sparkle, we are seeing the rise of more tribal, community market driven brands. Local produce is flourishing, as are amateur brands, both blooming against the decline of the big brands. Today almost … Continue reading
How marketplaces are conversations and the story of uncertainty
Source: tradingeconomics.com In the ground breaking book the Cluetrain Manifesto, the authors made the claim that marketplaces are a conversation. It is true, it is the information we get from our peers which sets the scene for our willingness to take risk, to borrow and spend. Those sectors that are dramatically impacted by the high Australian … Continue reading
Small players disrupt the ‘big brand’ dominance
Everyone loves an underdog comes good story and in today’s market, with crowd funding technology and our appetite for creativity and the unique, there has never been a better time for someone to make it big, on a whim and a prayer. The “big is better” dominance is starting to dissipate as small boutique players … Continue reading
Business doing good, feeling good and 10 times more profitable
Find Love at Whole Foods Market _ YouTube See WholeFoods, the conscious business and their tongue in cheek, hook up service. (For the record, they weren’t first, I hear Coles at Neutral Bay Sydney has been hook up heaven for over two decades.) John Mackey, the co CEO and co-founder of the Whole Food Market … Continue reading
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