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The prerequisite to effective social media: the idea organization

Chris Koch

Some companies have companywide competitions for the best ideas or the best white paper. One company has created an internal portal where project members submit ideas that are vetted and voted on by the project customers. The winning ideas are implemented. Make it competitive. This process is usually facilitated by marketing.

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Why your marketing to CIOs may be irrelevant—and what to do about it

Chris Koch

To market to these people effectively, you’re going to have to get to know them as being part of multiple, unique segments. CIOs are in fact so different that marketing to them all with the same message means that you’ll be irrelevant at best, and offensive at worst to most of the people you’re trying to reach. Business Strategist.

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Why your marketing to CIOs may be irrelevant—and what to do about it

Chris Koch

To market to these people effectively, you’re going to have to get to know them as being part of multiple, unique segments. CIOs are in fact so different that marketing to them all with the same message means that you’ll be irrelevant at best, and offensive at worst to most of the people you’re trying to reach. Business Strategist.

Planning 100
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How social media muteness endangers your company: The crisis at McKinsey

Chris Koch

The trouble started when the McKinsey Quarterly published an article in early June entitled How US health care reform will affect employee benefits, based on a survey the firm did about what will happen to employer-sponsored health care insurance coverage when the President’s health care law goes into effect in 2014.