What Today’s McDonald’s Can Learn From Ray Kroc
The McDonald’s National Owners Association held their annual conference this past November 2024. One of the keynote speakers was to be Larry Light.
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The McDonald’s National Owners Association held their annual conference this past November 2024. One of the keynote speakers was to be Larry Light.
Ever since Amazon purchased Whole Foods in 2017, observers, pundits, analysts, investors and the curious have wondered how Amazon would shake up the grocery business. At the time of the purchase, astute commentators opined that Amazon would treat Whole Foods as a laboratory for new grocery and retail ideas. These commentators were not wrong. Amazon has kept audiences busy with different brick-and-mortar versions of stores that combined the technology of Amazon with the behavioral psychology...
While the term strategy is invoked routinely in marketing plans, in truth, actual strategy is often missing, misapplied, or simply misunderstood. Here we clear the air on building the right foundation to think and plan, guided by strategies that drive your unique brand purpose and mission.
Is AI the end of Marketing? Answering this question in the affirmative puts you in fraught company. Many have proclaimed the end of marketing before.