For some serious insight into the challenges facing grocery packaged goods, the Barron’s recent interview with Robert Moskow is an important read. One of the points made in the interview is that packaged goods’ focus on competing with own-label grocery brands seems to push a lot of buttons, except for innovation. Packaged goods seem to be fighting fights of the past rather than focusing on the future, in which packaged goods brands can win. Packaged...
How will businesses use AI in the short-term and the long-term? There is a lot of speculation regarding its potential for specific businesses. Right now, for a lot of people, the exposure to AI is a digital entity on the other end of a customer service phoneline. For those creating platforms or running enterprises, AI is creeping steadily into day-to-day internal and external job activity, offerings and experiences.
Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s report on business schools’ ratings has just appeared. As expected, the big, elite business schools are holding the top ranks. Review the list of the top ten business school brands and aside from prestige and location, what is it that relevantly differentiates these business schools? Not every business school, even the top-ranking schools, has relevantly differentiated their brand purpose, brand promise, and brand values. Brands of business schools need proper brand management as...
Despite all the talk about AI and the transformation of business, it remains that many brand businesses still wind up in financial distress, in the equity emergency room, repeating the same tendencies that lead to trouble. New is old when it comes to brand mismanagement.
Hain Celestial Group, the natural foods and organic personal care enterprise, just reported less than stellar results. This is not the first financial quarter that disappointed management, investors and Wall Street. There have been performance issues since 2016. This is a shame.
