Successful digital transformation seems elusive. According to a study by Mckinsey, it was found that less than one-third of organisational transformations succeed at improving a company’s performance and sustaining those gains, and the success rate of digital transformations is even lower.
When I first saw Gillette's “We Believe” ad, I was quite sceptical. How is that a brand known for its razor-sharp machoness suddenly take a stand against toxic masculinity, bullying and sexual harassment? By engaging with the #MeToo movement, the company’s new advertising campaign plays on its 30-year tagline “The best a man can get”, replacing it with “The best men can be”.
Instagram - a mobile-friendly photo & video album app that has more than 1 billion monthly active users and approximately 100 million photos and videos being uploaded each day. With easy access to mobile devices and a wide consumer reach, no wonder most brands are already on Instagram but the real question is are they engaging with their fans?
Unless you are in a country where WhatsApp is banned, you will rarely find someone who isn’t using the app for their day-to-day communication. Whether it’s a quick message to be sent to your mother or a meeting location to be shared with your colleague, WhatsApp is your go to app on the phone.
Countless small businesses have thrived for years on direct customer access paving the way to the Direct to Consumer (D2C) model. My childhood memories would be incomplete without the fresh smell of clarified butter (“ghee”) delivered at our doorstep every month by “jethu”, a middle aged man whose name is lost in time. This ghee was made by his wife in her dainty kitchen and he delivered in around his home to customers he acquired purely by word of mouth. Who would have known that decades later small businesses like his could use digital media to directly reach out and engage with customers across the world with a single click?
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” — Charles Darwin.
In marketing strategy, first-mover advantage, also commonly referred to as technological leadership is the advantage gained by the initial significant occupant of a market segment.
