Whilst preparing for a recent presentation I was giving, I found myself questioning whether innovation in ecommerce had ground to a halt. Now I’m not talking about innovations in technology here, there’s a lot of that going on. I’m talking about retailers embracing these innovations and applying them...
Mid-tier brands will require intensive care in the next 12 months unless they rewire their sales & marketing now! This stark warning will be delivered by Dr Erich Joachimsthaler, CEO, Vivaldi Partners in his key note address to the Global Brand Forum 2009 at Cass Business School, London next month...
Andrew Kelly runs the Bristol Cultural Development Partnership and was kind enough to give up some time to answer a few of my questions about the BCDP's role in nurturing creativity in Bristol. So, Andrew, what do you do? I work for Bristol Cultural Development Partnership - Arts Council England...
Jo, Iwein and I, plus 897 other people crammed in to the Wills Memorial Building at the University of Bristol last night for a Bristol Festival of Ideas lecture on The Shifting Global Economy by Will Hutton—or, as he put it, “How did we get in this mess and how are we going to get out?” The audience...
Everyone knows but rarely practices the secret to successful innovation: knowing how to fail early, and fail cheaply. Which is why P&G is still actively investing in game-changing innovations even amid the recession. Real innovation is becoming rare which is why P&G knows it’s important to master...
This is supposed to be a blog about digital creative from Bristol. Yet, I’m sitting on a London bound train, about to see one of my design heroes, Jonathan Ive from Apple based in the US of A. Oooh, the ever so slight irony of it! Hello! I’m Jon Waring Vital stats: 43, 6ft 2, 11 stone, 1 wife, 3 children...
Why are there a disproportionate numbers of agencies based in London? Probably part of the answer is the same explanation as to why there were so many cotton mills in Manchester – geography. The cotton mills were near raw materials. London agencies are near to an unrivalled (in Europe) array of production...
Neatly put by the bloggers today – why don’t we just call it the Carter Report as opposed to the Digital Britain report? I get that it’s a status report on Government not of Government, but it’s a pretty big deal altogether and needs a lot of thought. Unpicking the innumerable strands that make up what...
Or government bail out, which looks the most likely if you are a German or Irish bank. I suppose bleating about how big you are doesn’t help at this point, because what matters is public and private confidence in the business and stability of client relationships who will continue to look for better...
I was most taken with the comment headlining this post - a quote from Craig Barrett, founder of Intel, last night, courtesy of and Oxford Business School event I was lucky to attend. It reminded me that one of the things that digital marketing has taught the industry in the past ten years is about remembering...
