To begin it's important when using AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology it must be accomplished by the application of actual intelligence.
I have developed a useful list of issues of opportunity, limitations, confidentiality, accuracies, risks and benefits:
- Look at the needs of AI
- Verification of claims, facts, reasoning and outputs
- Be sure to trust and verify. Documentation of records.
- What independent human verification is required. With follow up.
- Develop and review clear policies on the use of AI
- Develop and review clear policies on the use of AI policies in law schools
- Ethical and legal issues
- Look at billing model changes with the use of AI, especially eliminating new. law school employees
- Completeness of the output
- Accuracy of the outputs
- AI hallucinations
- Finding non sensical information
- Finding unsubstantiated information
- Look at vendors, media buyers, advertising agencies and suppliers
- Keeping client's property safe and separate, may include electronic data
- The use of AI powered Marketing claims
- Is it a business/enterprise or a public tool? Different rules apply.
- Look at reasonable fees and communicate issues with clients. Review overhead and administration billings/costs.
- Complexity of the issues and changes in the future years.
- Vendor reliance
- Ownership of IP
- Ownership of outputs and inputs in AI
- Protections
- Confidentiality
- Outputs and Inputs may be discoverable
- Protecting client information
- How you communicate with clients and employees
- Confirm and double check information
- Judges are using AI tools
I like Marketing. I like Promotion, one of my nine P's of Marketing
I use my 9P's to illustrate Marketing examples in the classroom, in court as an expert witness, in seminars and to solve Marketing problems and to find opportunities.
My 9P's of Marketing do include these important concepts, practices and components:
- Planning and Research.
- Finding copy points is part of the creative and promotional planning.
- Planning for marketing activities, objectives, strategies and tactics. Viewership, revenue, sales. All sales, whether in services, fashion, sports, amusement parks, hotels, resorts, autos, fast food, retail sales or tires, refreshments or cereal, as three examples.
- From the founder of Intuit, Scott Cook, said: " A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is -- (maybe from Marketing Research never was is my comment) it is what consumers (“People” in the 9P’s) tell each other it is.
- People (Segmentation and Targeting)
- Consumers and users, as in shoppers. Fashion consumers. Add travelers.
- In my 9P's, I stress that firms need to look and analyze potential, new, existing and repeat customers and users.
- Product and Services, includes airports, sports teams, people and celebrities too. I teach that perfection resides in quality, not quantity.
- Place (Distribution), includes retail and online. How about locations of airports, team stadiums, amusement parks and resorts?
- Price or Pricing, many contingency plans needed.
- Promotion:
- There are eight (8) major, strategic components or communication elements which are personal and non-personal communication activities.
- The activities that communicate the merits of the overall product include:
- Personal Selling/ Sales Force: Sales persons
- Listen more than you talk. People who listen more, learn more, plus helps you position your service/product/solution or offering.
- Advertising: Like Super Bowl advertising in February for Super Bowl. Think about this expression "It is only creative if the product or service sells." I wanted to add "It is only good media spending if it sells."
- Sales Promotion, advertising mascots can fit here, too. Signage would fit here.
- Collateral Materials
- Direct Marketing (also referred to as Action or Direct Response Advertising)
- Interactive/Internet/Web, Digital Media, Social Media:
- Events and Experiences, sampling
- Public Relations/PR
- One stop shopping is more important than ever.
- Partners/Alliances, can be one of the most powerful of the 9P's if researched, performed and handled well.
- There should be moving forward towards shared goals or goals.
- Presentation:
- The act or acts of strategically presenting any of the different 9P’s© and/or components to your customers, suppliers, wholesalers, retailers, sales force, marketing intermediaries, clients, employees, partners, and/or others.
Presentation aspects may be signs, symbols or images that represent something; a descriptive or persuasive account (as a sales person of the product or service). Something set forth for the attention of mind of your targets ("People") and media audiences. I've added "culture," too. I'm adding "culture," too.
- Passion, including consumers and employees. Think about the lines sometimes of consumers waiting for a new Apple product
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said “ To put your ideas into action is the most difficult thing in the world." But Nike says "Just do it."
The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help identify marketing problems in a number of strategic areas and help develop profitable marketing’s objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. The 9P's are insightful. The nine P's were created for the digital age.
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