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7 Steps for Naming Your Brand
Following a rigorous approach, being true to your brand promise, and getting direct customer feedback can fundamentally improve a name’s longevity and success.
The Customer Lens: An Approach to Customer Touchpoint Analysis
Fielding customer-satisfaction surveys is not enough.
How can CMOs use AI?
Artificial Intelligence has a lot to say about how CMOs can utilize AI to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Future in Focus: The 5-Year Growth Playbook
A critical tool in leaders’ bag of management tricks is the 5-year strategic planning process. This process helps achieve alignment not just on common objectives but also on the shape and meaning of the capabilities underpinning that strategy’s execution.
Escaping The “Effort Without Progress” Trap
Accelerating Alignment So Organizations Thrive (Now). CMG’s ThriveNumber™ is built to expose and address misalignment, impaired strengths, and the progress traps they create.
Pricing Optimization
CMG’s Stephen McPhail discusses a personalized approach to strategic pricing
The $125 Million Lesson in [Mis]alignment
What kills success isn't the knowns—it's the unknowns, or worse, the ignored. In 1999, NASA lost a $125 million spacecraft because of an unspoken assumption that destroyed years of work in seconds.
Beyond Alignment: The Foundation of High-Performance Teams
Alignment is fundamental to execution excellence, and it creates the conditions for teams to thrive.
Engineering Breakthrough Growth Requires a Bias for Change
Breakthrough growth is built through choices, habit, and action.
Conway’s Law in the Wild: When Org Design Becomes the Customer Experience
The culture your customers experience is the observed one, and you can’t “talk your way around” a broken experience.
What CEOs Should Know Now: 2026 Demands More than Resilience
Progress doesn’t come from waiting for stability. It comes from choosing how to lead when stability isn’t guaranteed
The Harsh Truth About Naming: It’s Harder Than You Think (but that’s exactly why it’s worth doing right)
Naming is more than just a creative challenge
Level-Up Your Team’s Learning Loop: A Practical Guide to Retrospectives
A practical guide to retrospectives that help teams reflect, adapt, and continuously improve