Strategy
Media companies will increasingly have to choose what to own and what to co-pilot. Not every new venture needs to exist as an O&O product, nor does it have to exist within a centralized environment. Licensing out characters to various retailers, or allowing small merchants to use beloved characters in their own designs sought out by different... See more
How Nintendo Music Potentially Outlines the Future of Media
Stuck on a problem you can’t solve? Go bigger. Expand it. Make it giant. Do not try to contain it, or simplify it, or reduce it. Make it so large that you can begin to see a new pattern. Solve the larger problem and the smaller one will get solved along the way.
Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules
Design Thinking and Other Approaches
How Different Disciplines See, Think and Act
Disney IP Network Strategy
As Mark Bonchek highlights in his widely popular Harvard essay:“Companies that successfully market and sell innovation are able to shift how people think not only about their product, but about themselves, the market, and the world. Don’t sell a product, sell a whole new way of thinking.”
Sari Azout • From Product/Market Fit to Language/Market Fit: A New Brand Storytelling Framework
The fundamental message of marketing must change from "we want your money" to "we share your interests".