By Damian Davila, on October 16th, 2008
As you may have read in the About the author section, I am enrolled in the Master of Business Administration at the Shidler College of Business at Honolulu, HI. A very common question that I get all the time is: “so…what do you do?” Well, one of the most common assignments that we get is [...]
By Damian Davila, on October 8th, 2008
• Given the higher failure rate of products and the saturation of marketing channels, it is necessary to improve the understanding of the innovation process in order to better meet the customer’s needs and to launch to market ahead of the competition.
• I agree that innovation requires a different approach that goes beyond the category [...]
By Damian Davila, on October 1st, 2008
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According to Gladwell, the Power of context infers that epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur . This is a main idea within lateral marketing, because it involves an important transformation of a product or service: there must be the radical addition [...]
By Damian Davila, on September 24th, 2008
Throughout the fourth chapter of Lateral Marketing, Kotler and Trias de Bes discuss how “new market or category creation is the most efficient way to compete in mature markets where microsegmentation and an excess of brands do not leave room for new opportunities” (2003, p. 72).
The cited examples of Lateral Marketing by Kotler and Trias [...]
By Damian Davila, on September 23rd, 2008
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On this post, I will discuss the first two chapters of The Tipping Point by Gladwell and the third chapter of Lateral Marketing by Kotler and Trias de Bes because I found a lot of similar points on both books.
Malcolm Gladwell. Photo Credit: Brooke Williams.
Kotler and Trias de Bes discuss the most [...]

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