6/1/2021 8:55:59 AM Retail Can Learn More From How Consumers 'Experience' Your Brand Than it Can From Just Transactions? By Stephen Sumner Prior to 2020, the experience economy appeared to be booming. In the US, sales of spectator events, amusement parks, restaurants and...
4/6/2021 9:25:50 AM What Can We Learn From 'Tinder' About Branding? By Stephen Sumner Let's imagine you're sat in a bar, but this isn't just any bar, this bar is where you go to 'listen' to what people are saying about...
4/6/2021 9:09:56 AM Any Retailer Can Give A Great Experience - When the Store is Empty. By Stephen Sumner Today we take it for granted that at the click of the mouse we can talk to, be seen with, and connect to virtually anyone around the...
3/8/2021 11:54:37 AM 'Visual Merchandisers' - Retail Needs You More Than Ever, Please Come Back! By Stephen Sumner The current crisis has forced organisations to adapt rapidly to new realities, opening everyone’s eyes to new, faster ways of working...
2/24/2021 10:16:40 AM Customer Engagement Is Your Secret Weapon To Beat The Competition By Tim Hughes "The report’s overall message is clear. Companies that have formal customer engagement initiatives outperform those that don’t. For...
2/19/2021 12:56:10 PM Customer Experience Has Become Homogenised, Just Like Retail - Here's Why? By Stephen Sumner Let me give you something to think about. If you had seen the following statement prior to this pandemic what would you, your leadership...
12/24/2020 9:58:02 AM Flipping the Odds of Digital Transformation Success By Tim Hughes In this article from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) they ponder this exam question, and I will answer it based on how we see the world...
9/9/2020 11:16:59 AM Intent Data and Demand Generation By Digital Leadership Associates "Intent data shows which leads or accounts are actively conducting research online. As they search, they’re scored on thousands of...
8/17/2020 8:00:19 AM Ten ‘antipatterns’ that are Derailing Technology Transformations By Tim Hughes This is a great article by McKinsey, in summary it talks about this notion in business that IT drives transformation. Or that system...
7/8/2020 2:10:05 PM Why You Should Adopt a Magazine style Catalog as a Key Part of the Retail Strategy Playbook. By Stephen Sumner As advertising has become increasingly dominated by the Facebook and Google duopoly, it would be easy to write off the print catalog as a...
2/26/2020 9:05:34 AM Social Selling on LinkedIn for Financial Service Providers By Tim Hughes One of our clients recently described a "social" organisation. A social organisation being one that is run on social. Social in sales,...
1/27/2020 11:57:44 AM When Is the customer always right? By Stephen Sumner Is the Customer always right? Well it depends on whether you've made brand promises that you no longer deliver against I guess. If you...
1/14/2020 4:40:31 PM Open Letter to Andy Palmer CEO of Aston Martin By Tim Hughes Andy, My business partner and I had the opportunity to visit the Aston Martin museum in 2019, it was pretty inspirational. For me, the...
12/15/2019 11:35:11 AM Keeping Employees Informed about Customer Experience Transformation Efforts By Tim Hughes There are two critical factors with any change program and transformation. 1. Leadership buy-in and 2. Communicating that change In my...
12/11/2019 8:12:18 AM Building Your Customer Experience Into Your Company’s Core Values By Tim Hughes We all know that our employees are our most important asset. Some of us even do something about it. Our business is about communication....
12/2/2019 6:19:34 AM Transform Customer Journeys at Scale—and Transform Your Business By Tim Hughes I was in Austria this week presenting to the Board of a customer of ours at one of their company retreats. Sitting in the airport in...