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  • What is Customer Centricity?

    The course focuses on the concept of customer centric marketing and what it means to be a customer centric organization. The reality is most companies tend to be product centric and to shift the focus on customer centricity, topics covered include the evolution of marketing practice, the definition and strategic advantage of customer centricity, the […]

  • What is Relationship Marketing?

    Is Relationship Marketing the same as Marketing applied to generate new customers? In this first of the two segments of the course, we present why they are different and to explain what is the purpose of Business. Topics included are diversity of Relationship Marketing Programs, which are illustrated with many real company examples. The key […]

  • Who Should Pay for Growing Chronic Diseases?

    In a heavily trafficked world, global economic burden of non-communicable diseases (NCD) is enormous. This course particularly focuses on the economics of this situation and addresses the ten harsh realities of NCDs in terms of human lives as well as economic opportunity loss. Specifically the demographics context is explored, such as economic strata of populace […]

  • Why do Good Companies Fail? External Drivers of Change

    This is the last of the two segments of the course covering the external drivers of change and further describing in detail the six factors or variables of influence namely regulation, investors, competition, technology, globalization, and customers. Models and frameworks are discussed on the ability to adapt and how to bring about. Finally, observations on […]

  • Why do Good Companies Fail? Internal Causes of Failure

    This is a first of the two segments of the course focusing on answering the most insightful leadership question, Why do good companies fail? In particular, it explores what a company’s internal causes of failure are, such as status quo management, success breeds failure, high cost of structure, internal conflicts, bureaucratic governance, and regulation handcuffs, […]

  • Why do Most Innovations Fail?

    Most companies and leaders want to innovate. Realistically, how many innovations make it to market? This course delves deep into the six main factors on Why Most innovations Fail in the marketplace and presents strategies on how to improve those factors to benefit a company’s innovation roadmap. It further draws upon on the typology of […]

  • Why Entrepreneurship is More Than Capitalism

    Most people confuse Entrepreneurship with Capitalism. Capitalism, however, embodies the idea of market governance through competitive market forces and price competition, while Entrepreneurship is characterized by market creation and revitalization. This lecture explores the difference between the two and establishes the universality of Entrepreneurship, while demonstrating how it is a greater force for good in […]

  • Why is it Hard to Innovate?

    It presents a counterpoint to the conventional wisdom, that cultural issues keep good ideas from becoming commercially successful, by showing that the barriers to innovation are essentially structural. Topics including the factors contributing to a dramatic growth in inventions and the issues surrounding innovation resistance are discussed in detail. The course then explores the five […]

  • Why we Buy what we Buy

    What motivates consumers is an age-old question that has baffled the scholar and practitioner of Marketing alike. In this lecture, the first of a two-part series on Consumer Motivations, an integrative model of the various factors guiding buying patterns is proposed. After considering the various theories in vogue, it proposes a new model based on […]