It's nothing more than a problem of reaching a consensus.

by zcib5742 on 2011-06-16 13:38:31

Team spirit is the key to the overall competitiveness of a company's marketing center.

People are the vital elements of a team's life; team spirit is the "soul" of a company’s overall marketing competitiveness, and it is the treasure for overcoming rivals. It is the critical factor in effectively implementing new levels, heights, and perspectives in corporate marketing transformation strategies. It fully demonstrates the execution capability of a company's operational strategy system. We need to correctly understand and grasp the relationship between people and the enterprise, seriously cultivate the team spirit among core talents, key talents, and general talents, and comprehensively improve the leadership, decision-making, and execution capabilities of the entire enterprise operation.

The Importance of Team Spirit in Corporate Informatization

In the overall business activities of an enterprise, individual ability is an important component of a team but not the decisive factor. The decisive factor is the integration, continuity, control, obedience, and cooperation embodied in the team spirit. Reviewing the 200-year history of industrialization in the West and China's nearly 30 years of industrial development, the birth of any successful entrepreneur or management theory always connects individual ability with the cultivation of team spirit.

The internationalization of enterprises and the evolution of marketing transformation strategies have changed the competitive landscape due to information technology. Human resources significantly impact competitors. In today’s context of internationalized enterprise development, the role of human capital, especially team spirit, becomes even more crucial. How can we dialectically approach the issue of human resources? From the Li Kaifu incident at Microsoft, the collective events at TCL Communication's senior management, to Wu Shihong's equity sale event, these all point to one issue: the lack of consensus in decision-making. This is the main cause of TCL's conventional mistakes: a company that cannot reach consensus at the decision-making level is bound to fail in overseas acquisitions in 2005.

In the competition of market informatization strategies, talent competition still holds a dominant position. Talent has been the fundamental factor since the start of industrialization. Talent forms the foundation of a company's overall team leadership, decision-making, and execution capabilities. The competition of talent shifts toward informatization, which means transforming talent-information into an innovative system. Marketing transformation strategies in the information age remain a contest of comprehensive abilities between competitors. Having just a large team cannot guarantee market success. Enterprise competition involves strategy changes, and this competition encompasses decision-making, leadership, execution, as well as human resources and morale. When companies like Amway and Procter & Gamble bring products considered junk domestically to conquer the Chinese market, they rely on the implementation of their marketing transformation strategies, including branding. Their employees at every level exhibit a kind of team spirit, which reflects what we often refer to as corporate culture. This illustrates a principle: while technical content is one factor in a company or product's market success, the deep implementation of marketing transformation strategies fundamentally alters the state of market products. Without a good team, or without a team possessing integration, continuity, control, obedience, and cooperation, it is impossible to succeed in the market.

Marketing Transformation Strategy - Synergy Among People in Teams

Under conditions of marketing transformation strategy competition, the full play of human synergy has undergone new changes. While striving to enhance corporate informatization construction, we should deeply study the new characteristics of the relationship between individuals and organizational systems under marketing transformation strategy conditions. By cultivating team spirit, we further leverage human synergy in the context of corporate informatization and marketing transformation strategy competition.

1. Human synergy does not only manifest during execution but should also appear in preparation before execution. Without adequate preparation beforehand, it is impossible to truly achieve success in market competition. To achieve competitive market objectives, all possible issues that may arise during execution must be thoroughly anticipated (including strategic responses from "single" and "multiple" competitors), and targeted preparations should be made in different execution phases and mentalities. The play of human synergy in market competition is advanced to preparation before execution, reflected in execution preparation. This determines that the team must always maintain a high-spirited team spirit face. Cultivating team spirit should be regarded as a specific task to enhance the overall marketing competitiveness of the enterprise.

2. For the implementation of the enterprise's marketing transformation strategy, this team must form a strong combination across different levels of leadership, decision-making, and execution. If it is not the optimal combination, it will be difficult to play synergistically in the competition of marketing transformation strategies. Different market competition states require different knowledge sets for this team and its members.

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