So the 'DaVinci' agency commissioned by Dell from WPP is behind schedule and still lacking a CEO. You have to ask yourself why - given the history of in-house agencies - WPP should feel the need to start a monster shop dedicated to Dell, when they already have more than 2000 operating companies...
I have just caught up with an interesting research report from the US into value-based pricing – the latest candidate to break the default setting of people/hours fees. In August the ANA (ISBA equivalent) and AAAA (America’s IPA) jointly published something called the Agency-Advertiser Value...
It is not meant to be a rude question. But with seemingly half the agencies in town either currently leaderless or having recently taken on new top talent, it is timely to ask what roles Chairmen and CEO’s are supposed to fulfil.In my agency days I’d always thought that the CEO was basically...