APMG 8117 Marketing Strategy – 2013 – What a great bunch of brilliant students.

APMG 8117 Marketing Strategy – 2013 – What a great bunch of brilliant students. Well done in your contributions to yourself, Air New Zealand, Just Water, Fisher and Paykel Healthcare and Hii.  

BSNS 7454 Strategic Brand Management – Brand Strategy Development Projects for Rinnai – 2013

Well done to the students who will have completed the BSNS 7454 Strategic Brand Management – Brand Strategy Development Projects for Rinnai. It is tough working on real projects, for real companies. There are alot of other considerations. You have done a great job going through the initial customer brand analysis through to strategy formulation. Like the […]

BSNS 7454 Strategic Brand Management – CEMIX Students – Brand Strategy Development Projects – 2013

Well done to the students who will have completed the BSNS 7454 Strategic Brand Management – Brand Strategy Development Projects for CEMIX. You have done a great job going through the initial customer brand analysis through to strategy formulation. Thank you to Jessica Baird for your support at CEMIX Marketing.  Like the Rinnai students – well done!! See other […]

APMG 8117 Marketing Strategy Students – Wish them Luck for the Final Project with Fisher and Paykel Healthcare (into the Lions Den)

APMG 8117 Marketing Strategy Students (2013) – Wish them Luck for the Final Project with Fisher and Paykel Healthcare (into the Lions Den). In the briefing last week we were joined by my research colleagues Sandra Smith from the University of Auckland and Inna Piven of Otago Polytechnic. Tomorrow (Friday the 7th June 2013) we […]

Americans spend 58 minutes a day on their smartphones (© 2013 Experian Information Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved)

Some interesting findings: “New data from Experian Marketing Services’ Simmons® ConnectSM mobile and digital panel sheds light on the way smartphone users spend time using their phone, with the average adult clocking 58 minutes daily on their device. On average, smartphone owners devote 26% of the time they spend on their phone talking and another 20% texting. […]

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Social Media Community: Building Brand Relationships Outsource the Brand By Robert Davis and Inna Piven (SoDA-Pi) “To the community.”  “Some businesses are not sure what to discuss on their social networking pages. They just bombard us with specials and try to sell their products and services. To me social media is not about selling. It’s about the […]

Emerald Literati Network 2013 Awards for Excellence – Outstanding Reviewer – Internet Research

I was very happy to find out today (May 15 2013) that I had been awarded the Emerald Literati Network 2013 Award for Excellence – Outstanding Reviewer – Internet Research. Thanks. It is an honor to serve. Robert Davis

APMG 8117 (2013) Marketing Strategy Students Work with the Human Interface Initiative: "The Next Evolution In Digital Communication | Immersive | Private | Beautiful"

APMG 8117 (2013) Marketing Strategy Students Work with the Human Interface Initiative: “The Next Evolution In Digital Communication | Immersive | Private | Beautiful”.

Innovation – Look at things differently? Stimulate innovation through simplistic incrementalism.

A lot is talked about innovation. Often it is about taking the simple things and looking at them differently to create a solution and outcome. I was stimulated to think about this from an email my Dad sent me and conversation we had today about innovation (over coffee at the Rabbithole). The below examples are […]