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Meet the Instructor: Marketing Foundations with Marta Dapena Barón

Join Drew Boyd and his fellow LinkedIn Learning instructor, Marta Dapena Barón, to learn about the newly released version of the Marketing Foundations course.

Meet the Author: Marta Dapena Barón, Big Picture Strategy

Dr. Marta Dapena Barón, the author of Big Picture Strategy, shows readers how limiting and focusing the strategic options available to company stakeholders can unlock previously inaccessible levels of productivity and growth.

The Strategic Plan as a Customer-Brand Story

In this presentation, Marta will discuss the key tools required for you to connect with your target audience, empowering them to seek change by collaborating with your brand.

Introduction to the Big Picture Strategy: The Six Choices that Transform Go-to-Market Strategy

Introduction to the Big Picture Strategy: The Six Choices that Transform Go-to-Market Strategy

Have you ever been part of a go-to-market strategy exercise? Did you find it challenging? Were you satisfied with the outcome? Developing go-to-market strategy is complex – it involves making choices considering lots of information, such as market trends, customers, competitors, suppliers, and the regulatory environment among others. Thankfully, the Big Picture Strategy approach helps you reduce complexity by focusing your team on the six foundational elements all go-to-market strategies must address: brand, business category, bodies, beliefs, behaviors, and benchmarks – the 6Bs.

Value Proposition Surgical Robotics Simulation now live on Harvard Business Publishing Website

Value Proposition Surgical Robotics Simulation now live on Harvard Business Publishing Website

The Value Proposition Simulation: Surgical Robotics examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) might impact the general surgery category.

Leading a Marketing Team – 2nd in a Series

Leading a Marketing Team – 2nd in a Series

As a marketing leader, you are responsible for a bundle of resources, and all are required to get the job done. Those resources obviously include human resources - your team - and also include financial resources in the form of a budget.

Search Engine Loyalty: Heart, Head, or Hand?

Search Engine Loyalty: Heart, Head, or Hand?

Customer loyalty is one of the most popular topics in marketing, but not all loyalty is created equal. Within the Big Picture methodology we have identified three types of loyalty, which we call Heart, Head, and Hand. While customers may exhibit different combinations of loyalty, one tends to dominate.

Improving Your Supply Chain without Damaging the Brand Experience: The Essential Questions to Ask

Improving Your Supply Chain without Damaging the Brand Experience: The Essential Questions to Ask

A business team recently asked whether I could help develop a value proposition for their supply-chain rationalization project. The project had been developed to save on inventory costs, but it was also tweaked to benefit customers. While rationalizing the supply chain is a worthwhile goal, it does not necessarily benefit customers; in fact, reducing product and distribution costs sometimes has the unintended consequence of disrupting customers’ brand experience.

Leading a Marketing Team – First in a Series

Leading a Marketing Team – First in a Series

When you lead a marketing team, people are going to look for direction about your marketing strategy. That includes your boss, your peers, and your team.

Big Picture Segmentation

Our President, Marta Dapena-Barón, discusses Big Picture Segmentation.