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November 24, 2021January 24, 2022 andreweverett360

Reflecting on Marketing ROI

Colin Lewis wrote a LinkedIn post titled ROI should not be used as an advertising metric (November 18, 2021). The post consisted of quotes from Tim Ambler’s 2003 paper ROI is Dead.  

The post generated some Twitter discussion upon which I’ve been reflecting.

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November 15, 2021November 14, 2021 andreweverett360

Plan to Quit Your Startup After Five Years

Arianne Cohen wrote an article for Bloomberg BusinessWeek titled Forget a Lifetime Commitment. Plan to Quit Your Startup After Five Years (November 8, 2021).

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November 13, 2021December 17, 2021 andreweverett360

disposing of retired electric vehicle batteries is going to be a huge issue

A Science Daily article reports That new EV battery will be a headache to recycle.

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November 12, 2021 andreweverett360

Lego’s customer service

Jason Aten wrote an article for Inc titled Lego Customers Lose Millions of Pieces a Year. The Company’s 4-Word Response Is the Best I’ve Ever Seen.

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October 31, 2021November 23, 2021 andreweverett360

Relational weak ties are a big driver of new opportunity

Kitty Wooley wrote an article titled How informal discussion groups can maintain long-term momentum.

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October 31, 2021October 31, 2021 andreweverett360

How Metrics Are Killing Journalism

Viktor Pickard wrote an article titled Management by Metrics Is Upending Newsrooms and Killing Journalism (October 2021).  “Designed to discipline workers into producing clickable and profitable content, newsroom analytics are radically changing the nature of media work — and hastening journalism’s ugly decline.”

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October 26, 2021October 23, 2021 andreweverett360

Strategic Perspective

JP Castlin wrote a blog post titled Perspectives & Positioning: Introducing Henry Mintzberg (October 15, 2021).

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October 25, 2021October 23, 2021 andreweverett360

Guiding Policy

JP Castling wrote a blog post titled Good Strategy & Bad Strategy: Introducing Richard Rumelt (October 1, 2021).

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October 22, 2021 andreweverett360

the often-misquoted W. Edwards Deming

Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled W. Edwards Deming: The Legacy He Deserves Is Not The One He’s Usually Given  (October 23, 2021).

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October 20, 2021 andreweverett360

Resisting Dehumanized Research

Emmet Ó Briain wrote a LinkedIn article titled Defuse Dublin 2019 – The Big Green Button Myth: Resisting Dehumanised Research & the Corporate Constraint of Qualitative Insight   (Nov 7, 2019).

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