Captivate Network: Michael DiFranza venture
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Color Kinetics: Light your colorful mind
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MarketSoft Corporation: Winning the Marketplace
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Shifting the basis of competition: The DoCoMo opportunity
The company DoCoMo built their strategy for its “i-mode” service around some competitive advantages related with the exclusiveness and restricted access of their for-subscribers content. One main difference form other mobile carriers was that this content was provided by third party partners. Another brilliant decision was to use young people as initial target customers, because [...]
Crossing the chasm: Choosing the right market for Color Kinetics
In the year 1999 the LED technology had some difficulties remaining to the product itself, like being expensive, difficult to install, not very bright and not come in white lightning. But by the other hand, had some interesting and unique characteristics like having rich saturated colors, could be programed to run automatically in sequence of changing [...]
The Genzyme case: Beyond innovation
The company Genzyme and their starting product Ceredase are clear examples of a firm that went beyond innovation, reaching the status of a real entrepreneurship firm. The company started its operation in the year 1981, and was formed by a group of scientist that worked investigating genetically inherited enzyme diseases. In further years they generated excellent results, [...]
Cirque du Soleil: An example of a Global Export Company
The world known Cirque du Soleil is at this days the largest cultural export company of Canada (Nestruck, 2009), growing to a truly global entertainment transnational. According to his founder Mr. Laliberté the revenues in the year 2010 arrived to $850 million, estimating to reach $ 1 billion in 2011 (Sylt, C. & Reid, C., 2011). [...]
Statistical Methods: Helping Dell to Promote Products
The company Dell has conducted a survey to their recent purchasers of Dell PCs and notebooks. One of the goals for this investigation is to determine if some of the customers will recommend Dell to their friends and family for a purchase (Malhotra, 2010, p. 774-775). For this we will explore with 2 statistical methods: One-Way [...]
Starbucks: A Marketing Research Lesson
When thinking in Starbucks, we recall on one of the largest coffeehouse companies in the world (Malhotra, 2010). But what makes Starbucks so special that has grown from no more than 2.400 stores 12 years ago to almost 17.000 stores around the world right now? (2010 Annual Report Form 10-K, 2011) We can find the answer [...]
Research Design for Accurate Decisions
Since Dell Inc. was created, their main strategy has been to use a low-cost and direct-sales model focused on maximizing the benefits of the company´s costumers. They don’t have property systems and offer diversified products and services related with desktops, PCs and Handhelds. With this low cost customers focused strategy they become the number one direct-sale [...]
Social Networking Marketing Strategies
This study explores the use of new Marketing Strategies using Social Media Networking to promote product and services through the study of three cases that shows us ways to use these and improve our brand or our relationship with the customers. If we think in the traditional marketing, it relies on the advertising itself to get [...]