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Part 1: Moving Your Firm up the Thought Leadership Evolutionary Chart

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Thought leadership can be seen as an evolutionary timeline with five phases. Here’s how to move up the scale so you can generate revenue through thought leadership. B2B companies vary tremendously in the ability to gain recognition for their expertise. Many firms with deeper and more differentiated expertise are not nearly as well known as certain […]

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Why Thought Leadership R&D is the Next Competitive Arena

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Professional firms themselves say it’s the strength of the ideas they market — not the strength of their marketing programs — that is the key to generating leads and widespread awareness of their expertise among clients. I look at the last two decades, and especially the last five years, as the era in which thought

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Case Study Research: An Essential Ingredient of Thought Leadership

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While striving to be thought leaders in their niches, many professional services firms keep the most important tool for generating thought leadership unused in their toolbox: the case study. By Bob Buday and Tim Parker Nearly every professional services firm today recognizes the market power of “thought leadership”—the ability to demonstrate differentiated and superior expertise

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Creating a Thought Leadership R&D Engine (Step 1): Start with the Right Ambition

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Without compelling ideas, the marketers get little traction and investments in marketing events, glossy management journals and PR firms are largely squandered. The first thing that a successful thought leadership content machine needs is ambition or purpose. But before I talk about ambition, I need to clarify a key term because its ambiguity contributes to

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How to Choose the Right Thought Leadership Topic for Your Next Research Study

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The best studies can change the prevailing narrative on a topic and show off the authors’ and firms’ special and essential expertise. And that, of course, produces leads. To display their expertise and attract the attention of potential clients, many B2B companies spend heavily on research studies. IBM makes big investments in C-suite surveys. Accenture, Deloitte

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