Brick by Brick by
Brick by Brick takes you inside the LEGO you've never seen. By following the teams that are inventing some of the world's best-loved toys, it spotlights the company's disciplined approach to harnessing creativity and recounts one of the most remarkable business transformations in recent memory. Brick by Brick reveals how LEGO failed to keep pace with the revolutionary changes in kids' lives and began sliding into irrelevance. When the company's leaders implemented some of the business world's most widely espoused prescriptions for boosting innovation, they ironically pushed the iconic toymaker to the brink of bankruptcy. The company's near-collapse shows that what works in theory can fail spectacularly in the brutally competitive global economy. It took a new LEGO management team - faced with the growing rage for electronic toys, few barriers to entry, and ultra-demanding consumers (ten-year old boys) - to reinvent the innovation rule book and transform LEGO into one of the world's most profitable, fastest-growing companies. Along the way, Brick by Brick reveals how LEGO: - Became truly customer-driven by co-creating with kids as well as its passionate adult fans - Looked beyond products and learned to leverage a full-spectrum approach to innovation - Opened its innovation process by using both the "wisdom of crowds" and the expertise of elite cliques - Discovered uncontested, "blue ocean" markets, even as it thrived in brutally competitive red oceans - Gave its world-class design teams enough space to create and direction to deliver built a culture where profitable innovation flourishes Sometimes radical yet always applicable, Brick by Brick abounds with real-world lessons for unleashing breakthrough innovation in your organization, just like LEGO. Whether you're a senior executive looking to make your company grow, an entrepreneur building a startup from scratch, or a fan who wants to instill some of that LEGO magic in your career, you'll learn how to build your own innovation advantage, brick by brick.
Business Plans That Work by
Turn your great idea into BIG PROFITS with a powerful, persuasive business plan! With any endeavor, good planning is the key to good results--especially in the launch of a new business or product. Business Plans That Work gives you an easy-to-follow template for conceptualizing, writing, focusing, and revising a business plan that converts your business idea into financial profit. A virtual blueprint for entrepreneurial success, this new edition of the popular entrepreneur's guide provides all the tools you need to communicate the value of your idea to investors and attract key talent, and create a plan you can turn to throughout the entire process of starting and running a business. You'll learn how to: Determine what to include in each plan, why, and for whom Secure the capital you need to get the project off the ground Assess opportunities and risks involved in your project Avoid common pitfalls that cost money, time, and effort With Business Plans That Work, you have everything you need to create winning strategies for development, sales, marketing, operations, distribution, and everything else successful ventures are founded on.
Media Planning and Buying in the 21st Century, Third Edition by
Media Planning & Buying in the 21st Century (3rd edition) is a leading textbook for students and early career professionals about the process of marketing-media planning, media buying and media sales in the 21st century. It is the most comprehensive and up to date media book available explaining the basics of media in simple English and a 21st century integrated marketing communications (IMC) perspective. Media Planning & Buying in the 21st Century The book includes 26 chapters leading readers step by step in the development of an actual media plan. Chapters include entry level definitions and perspectives; the media revolution; the concepts of audience, impact and media costs; media math; media in marketing, how media work; target marketing and geographic development; the tools of IMC; role of traditional vs. digital media; internet marketing; developing a strategic media plan; media negotiations and buying; media sales; the future, and a few surprises. The Media Planning Revolution Let the buyer beware! We are in the early stages of a media revolution with exponential change everywhere-- which impacts every aspect of the marketing communications and advertising media planning process. Examples: changes in demographics; demand for integrated marketing communications and interactivity; demand for accountability; new technologies and media innovations; certain traditional media will likely flounder; media convergence will continue; and consumers will gain even more control over their media/ advertising consumption. Jesse James Rides Again! As if learning about the exciting changes like those cited above wasn't enough, here's a new and perhaps unexpected challenge for advertising media professors, students, and professionals alike. In the good old days, media planning and buying and selling used to be a "goody two shoes" occupation, i.e., there was little to no fraud found in buying or selling media, no fake audiences, no cheating, no illegal cooking the books, no computer programs dedicated to stealing from advertisers. Disagreements, yelling and screaming, yes; but intentional dishonesty and breaking the law? No. Multi-million dollar deals with television networks were sealed with a phone call or a handshake. There was mutual trust between buyers and sellers. If a magazine rep promised a page 1 position, you could take it to the bank. Caveat-Emptor Today, we are once again living in the Wild, Wild West. We are saturated with internet sales hype, dubious audience definitions, and rampant on line ad fraud perpetrated by a large handful of crooks. With bogus clicks and fake impressions and no transparency, advertisers are being cheated out of at least $10-11 billion or more annually by fraudsters. What's worse, this fraud is taking place in the open. Industry leadership knows about it, but has done nothing because everyone profits from it (except advertisers). The Author: Ronald D. Geskey, Sr. Ronald D. Geskey, Sr. spent over 30 years in account & media management at leading worldwide ad agencies and teaching advertising and media at some leading U.S. universities; including: Leo Burnett/Chicago, Texas Tech, D'Arcy, Campbell Ewald and General Motors R*Works. Ron worked with clients such as Allstate, Midland Bank, Green Giant, KFC, Heinz Ketchup, Glad Bags, 3M Company, Conwed, Chevrolet Motor Division, Chevrolet dealers, and General Motors. Ron has a masters in marketing/communication from Southern Illinois University, and other post graduate work at Northwestern, Michigan State, and Wharton.
Strategic Thinking for Advertising Creatives by
Strategic thinking is central to creating a successful advertising campaign, yet it is rarely taught systematically. This book enables advertising creatives to formulate a clear brief and to think strategically. Structured according to the 11 essential elements of a classic advertising brief, it offers a simple, clear, universal template against which the student or young creative can map his or her current project, and learn to understand the key elements that make up a strong brief. At the end of each chapter, the reader uses the knowledge they have just gained on a hypothetical project, so that by the end of the book, they have employed each of the 11 essential elements and formed their own creative brief. Featuring international examples of current and classic campaigns,Strategic Thinking for Advertising Creatives
This Is Advertising by
Advertising has changed. In today's world of multimedia and digital technology, the industry must find ways to build new relationships between brands and their audience, to make each product relevant as well as desirable. No longer is a simple television advertisement enough; brands need to communicate with their audience through all different kind of media. This is Advertising addresses the changes that are occurring within advertising, from the perspective ofkey figures within the industry. Each deals with a key emerging trend--digital, branded, ambient, integrated,and self-initiated. Featuring in total over 80 projects as well as ten-in-depth interviews by a selection of leadingadvertising figures, it offers an insightful overview for students or anyone involved with or interested in the current world of advertising.
Toy Wars by
A study of the toy industry follows five years in the business and family life of the Hasbro company, which involved corporate restructuring, a makeover of G.I. Joe, and a takeover attempt by rival Mattel.
YouthNation by
Youth is no longer an age it's a commodity.
YouthNation is an indispensable brand roadmap to the youth-driven economy. Exploring the idea that youth is no longer an age it's a commodity that's available to everyone this book shows what it takes to stay connected, agile, authentic, and relevant in today's marketplace. Readers will learn the ins and outs of the new consumer, and the tools, methods, and techniques that ensure brand survival in the age of perpetual youth. Coverage includes marketing in a post-demographic world, crafting the story of the brand, building engaged communities, creating experiences that inspire loyalty and evangelism, and the cutting-edge tricks that help businesses large and small harness the enormous power of youth.
