archimedes principle of marketing management
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www.create-learning.comThe slides from a talk about Managing the people who run your marketing. Archimedes Principle of Marketing Management: Any Marketing strategy will move to a level which coincides with the level of applied capability of the of the person running the campaign.Within all project goals for organizations whether it is marketing, client acquisition, increased profits the person who is in charge and accountable for the success / failure of the project MUST have the intelligence and capacity to achieve the goal. You will leave this workshop with; A tool to release the best work out of people. The ability to increase effectiveness of the people leading your Marketing processes. A metric that objectively measures employee and your own capacity to complete great work. Direct applications of the content to your Digital and Traditional Media Management.TRANSCRIPT
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Archimedes Principle:
Any floating object displaces its own weight of fluid.—Archimedes of Syracuse
For more general objects, floating and sunken, and in gasses as well as liquids (i.e. a fluid), Archimedes' principle may be stated thus in terms of forces:Any object, wholly or partially immersed in a fluid, is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object.— Archimedes of Syracuse
with the clarifications that for a sunken object the volume of displaced fluid is the volume of the object, and for a floating object on a liquid, the weight of the displaced liquid is the weight of the object.
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Archimedes Principle of Marketing Management:
Any individual who is responsible for the marketing campaign MUST have sufficient time-span management to handle the complexity of the campaign. - The success (rise in fluid) will only move as high as the ability to handle complexity (weight) of the individual managing the campaign.
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• Project Comes in Over Budget • Completion Times Need to be Continually Extended• The Quality and Results SUCK!
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Indicators that the person managing the campaign is too light for success.
“When the Going Gets Tough…The Tough Default To Their Level Of Competence”
How big is your bucket (how high must the water move)?How complex is your plan?Who is BEST to fill the bucket (who has the requisite weight)?How do you know?
The success (rise in fluid) will only move as high as
the ability to handle complexity
(weight) of the individual
managing the campaign.
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“…the complexity in a task lies not in the goal but in what you have to do in order to get there.”
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Role ComplexityLevel 1: Direct Action Tasks;
First line manual and clerical work. Time-Span 1 day to 3 months.• Individual proceeds along a prescribed linear pathway to a goal, getting
continual feedback in order to proceed, using previously learned methods for overcoming immediate obstacles as they are encountered, or else reporting back. (Jaques 1989)
Examples;• Update digital media with information x, y, z at time 1, 2, 3 and interact with followers.• Upload these photos (cropping, embedding, using fonts & company logos) dealing with
unexpected quirks of the places they are uploaded to.• Listen and respond to on-line customers & send any complaints to the customer service
reps.
Role ComplexityLevel 2: Diagnostic Accumulative Tasks;First line managerial work and specialist work done by individuals. Time Span 3 months to 1 year.
• At level 2 an individual not only overcomes immediate obstacles by direct action as they are encountered but must be able to reflect on what is occurring so as to note things that might indicate potential problems and obstacles; and must accumulate and consciously sort such data to diagnose emerging problems, and initiate actions to prevent or overcome the problems indentified. (Jaques 1989)
Examples;• As the manager train and induct this new subordinate judging how to proceed as you go in
light of your accumulated judgment of their progress.• Design a new media campaign for this client, working on the content and design as you go,
accumulating data on how various marketing channels are likely to best fit together so that the whole will work well.
• Examine the metrics and feedback from this Marketing Campaign to accumulate evidence of specific areas that were successful and areas that failed.
• Develop a 6 month Marketing campaign strategy for this new product; complete with goal statements, time frames, resources needed and how all the methods will integrate into one comprehensive campaign.
• Do a case work-up on a particular client/product, using your judgment in gathering what you consider to be significant data to arrive at your diagnosis of how best to market the client/product.
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Role ComplexityLevel 3: Alternative Serial Paths;Managers of Business Units i.e. Senior Marketing Manager, Senior Information Manager. Time Span 1 year to 2 years.
• At level 3 you must not only use direct judgment plus diagnostic accumulation, but you must also be able to encompass the whole process within a plan that has a pathway to goal completion that you have worked out in the first place – and have pre-planned alternative paths to change if need be. (Jaques 1989)
Examples;• A Senior Marketing Manager works out a number of ways of meeting a target of increasing
new client acquisition by ten percent over 18 months while holding his current acquisition targets. He chooses one path from several which he has constructed, a path which makes it difficult to meet his acquisition targets for nearly 6 months, but then he begins to catch up and gets on top of his target after a year.
• A Media Manager in a Bank heads a team of four marketing specialist on a project to develop a campaign to translate marketing material from one language to another. She constructs three possible paths to the goal: One would be sure but would take much too long, one would be excellent if it worked but would lead to project failure if it did not, the third relatively sound and could most likely be completed in the time available – although it might be slow and create uncertainty in the early stages. She opts for the third.
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How do I determine the ‘by-when’ time-span ?How will I know what the persons capacity is?
Does all this really matter?
Making Teams & Leaders Better.
By improving team processes and
individual effectiveness. Resulting in
increased productivity & people who
love the work they do.
Archimedes Principle of
Social Media
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FaceBook – TeamBuildingWNY
Blog – create-learning.com/blog
Role Complexity is from;Elliot Jaques work in ‘Requisite Organization’. 1989; Cason Hall & Co. PublishersArticles of interest;Is your leadership and work matched to your capability. How do you know? All that can be expected of you at work is to do your best Before the Promotion He was Nice & Had Potential Reverse Peter PrinciplePlanning; Nothing Magical Just Your Work Decision Making & Uncertainty of Work. How you Handle it is What Makes you Money. Effective Leaders are Alike-They Know the Limit
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