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In this course, you’ll learn how compelling blogs, videos, podcasts, and other media can reach customers and drive sales. You’ll also learn steps for creating an effective content marketing plan, and some important ways to measure its impact and success.
Content marketing is a essential digital marketing strategy for companies looking to provide relevant and useful information to support your community and attract new customers.
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Sustainable Innovation in Times of Disruption: Choices for a Better Society
There are opportunities for progress all around us. The key is to innovate on these opportunities sustainably.
To help identify most effective path forward, you'll need to gain a global perspective to these challenges in an open discussion. How can Japan and the world take action to create a more sustainable, innovative world? Where do you fit in?
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Social Media & Digital Communications: Impact on Global Public Opinion
Social and digital media have dominated the communications industry for decades. But it's no secret that social media has the power to sway public opinion, and the way in which many companies use these platforms could be seen as manipulative.
What do companies need to be aware of when utilizing social and digital media? How can these mediums be used to better communicate strategically with the world?
Discover what top media and communications experts have to say.
CAGE Distance Framework
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Servant Leadership
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Strategy: Creating Value Inside Your Company
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Strategy: Understanding the External Environment
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Using Japanese Values to Thrive in Global Business
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Marketing: Reaching Your Target
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Basic Accounting: Financial Analysis
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Career Anchors
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Leadership with Passion through Kokorozashi
The key ingredient to success? Passion.
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If you’re a consumer, the benefits of repairable products are clear: They last longer and help you save money. Public interest advocate US PIRG estimates that in the United States, repairing existing products (rather than buying new ones) could save the average family around $330 a year.
But things look a little different from the company side.
Disposable products have been a mainstay of cutting manufacturing costs since the 1950s. But in the age of climate change and rising environmental awareness, disposability is swiftly losing its appeal. These days, it’s all about sustainable technology.
What many businesses don’t realize is that a more repair-friendly model has real benefits for their bottom line. To reap those benefits at your company, you need to start with a mindset for sustainable innovation.
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The Downsides of Building for the Short Term
For sustainable innovation, first thing’s first: Forget about how “great” disposable products are.
Consumer electronics like phones are becoming more difficult to repair. This leads to more products being discarded after the failure of a single component.
The result of this pattern is an unprecedented buildup of electronic waste, or e-waste. According to the United Nations Institute for Training and Research’s Global E-waste Monitor 2020 report, 53.6 metric tons of e-waste was produced globally in 2019 alone. That’s a staggering 7.3 kilograms per person.
Technology made without considering long-term environmental outcomes creates a huge toll on the environment. While avoiding the downsides of building for the short term is important, it is also good to recognize the benefits of building products with long lifespans.
The Benefits of Sustainable Technology
Businesses can benefit from manufacturing products that are easy to repair, but that repairability needs to be worked in from the design stage. Doing so makes them easier to disassemble, and therefore easier to recycle. Ease of recycling in turn enables companies to transition to a circular economy model.
How does any of that translate to good news for the bottom line?
Cost-effectiveness
Renewables will eventually be the only cost-effective materials. By increasing the yield of recycled materials, you reduce the need for virgin raw materials and other natural resources.
Let’s face it: Those are only going to get more expensive and controversial.
Product Longevity
Product longevity is a key metric in consumer purchasing decisions. Sustainability-conscious consumers are more willing to purchase products that advertise longer lifespans. They’re also willing to pay a premium for eco-friendly products.
Even in business-to-business transactions, product longevity can serve as a competitive advantage. Businesses in fields like agriculture and logistics will find value in long-lasting products that reduce downtime and expenses.
How Companies Can Create a More Sustainable Future
Businesses tend to think that the only way to go sustainable is to make big changes to their supply chain. But there are internal changes businesses can (and should) take to increase the lifespan of their products, too.
Sustainability as Company Culture
Nirav Patel, the founder of Framework, a company that manufactures sustainable laptops, suggests prioritizing sustainability in company culture. That can be accomplished by incorporating environmental impact and device longevity metrics into performance incentives, for starters.
Another step companies can take toward a more sustainability-oriented culture is to use open specifications as much as possible. For example, rather than utilizing proprietary screwheads in their devices, you could use the more common flathead or Phillips head screws to make it easier for consumers to extend the lives of their products without having to purchase specific equipment.
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Design Thinking as Recycling
Fairphone, a modular smartphone company, implores companies to work directly with recyclers. Bringing them into the design process can help find new ways to build phones that are easier to recycle.
When manufacturing a product with an understanding of the recycling process, more resource-efficient devices are inevitable. This will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel dependency, too.
Consumers as Technicians
Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, suggests creating products with modular components and giving consumers the tools they need to repair them.
Offering consumers access to repair manuals is a great start. If the product requires specific tools to be repaired, they can be rented out or sold separately. For devices too complicated or dangerous for the average consumer to repair, working with independent third-party repair shops will make product repairs as accessible as possible.
By increasing the lifespan of consumer electronics, companies will actively work toward a more sustainable future.
How Consumers Can Support Sustainable Technology
You may think your business is ill equipped to move to a sustainable business model, but that likely isn’t true. If you consider sustainability from the outset all the way to end of the product life cycle, you may find that there are opportunities right in front of you that you haven’t taken advantage of yet.