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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part I Overview: The Motivation for Change and the Necessity for Challenging Current Mental Models Chapter 1: The Five Forces Driving the Need for Change, and the Enablers to Do So Chapter 2: It's All in Your Head: Challenging Entrenched Mindsets about "Advertising" Part II Overview: A New Model of Advertising Chapter 3: Orchestrating Value Creation across ALL Touchpoints Chapter 4: Aligning Individuals, Organizations, and Society through Authentic and Compelling Brand Purpose and Initiatives for Win-Win-Win Impact Chapter 5: Making the Substance of Each Touchpoint, and Touchpoint Journey, "RAVES" Chapter 6: Designing Touchpoints to Leverage the Expanded Power of Context: "MADEs" Part III: What to Do Now to Get Ready For - And Co-Create - The Future Chapter 7 Embrace a Culture of Adaptive Experimentation Chapter 8: Leverage All Aspects of the Organizational Architecture to Effect Change or Start Fresh Chapter 9: Transcend Silos and Barriers with Aligned Objectives, Open Innovation, Network Activation and Network Orchestration Chapter 10: A Global Movement From and Beyond Advertising toward a More Desirable Future Appendix One The Backstory: The Wharton FoA Program and the Advertising 2020 Project Appendix Two: Planning and Conducting an Experiment Appendix Three: Example Worksheet Appendix 4: Advertising 2020 Collaborators Bibliography …”

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