When Positioning Systems started in 1998 my intention was to help businesses discover their unique and valuable position. For 20 years I helped business create messages to differentiate from their competition. Jack Trout and Al Ries’ classic marketing book Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind provided this impetus. A classic positioning example was 7-Up’s, The Uncola!
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How to Create Clarity, Growth, Momentum – Your Flywheel
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jun 15, 2020
Topics: Build up to Breakthrough Flywheel, strategy decisions, Strategy - How, Turning the Flywheel, Flywheel, bezonomics, brian dumaine
There is no perfect strategy—nothing can guarantee your business a sustainable competitive advantage.
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Can a business with lousy service reverse their strategy to become fanatical about customer support?
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Step 5, Management Systems: What Systems Are Required, is the most neglected of the 5 steps to a Winning Strategy.
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Strategy - What Are Your Core Capabilities? Play to Your Strengths
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Wed, Sep 19, 2018
Topics: strategy decisions, Playing To Win, Core Capabilities, Play to Your Strengths
Topics: strategy, strategy decisions, Playing To Win, How To Win
What if your customer told you, “You are the leader, in fact, you don’t have any competitors for what you do and how you do it!”
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