5/30/2023 11:30:07 AM How To Solve (part of) The Retail Inflation Dilemma For Consumers! By Stephen Sumner Retail prices continue to remain stubbornly higher, there's even talk by the UK Government about retailers introducing price caps - crazy...
3/21/2023 9:58:33 AM A Bot Goes Into A Bar And Buys A Drink - With Your Money!! By Stephen Sumner I don't know about you but today we seem to be constantly bombarded with intrusive ads from everywhere, my personal bug bear is the...
3/7/2023 3:42:21 PM They Say That Data Is The New Oil - It Is for Fraudsters. By Stephen Sumner No wonder it's become common to call data the "new oil". The analogy isn't perfect. Data can be used many times, oil only once. Data...
1/19/2023 11:42:03 AM The Hard Truth About 'Paid Media' - Pssst, Don't Tell The CEO & CFO. By Stephen Sumner There is a view around paid media that its still the most effective way to deliver 'reach'. Some of which I might subscribe to if I...
5/3/2022 10:33:04 AM The Next Fiscal Challenge Is Here - What Can Retail Do NOW?. By Stephen Sumner Companies whose revenues have already been decimated by the pandemic and still have the ability to get through this next set of fiscal...
12/8/2021 10:23:42 AM Another New Year Is Looming For Retail - Or Is It? By Stephen Sumner The definition of what we consider as “marketing” is changing and becoming broader. No longer is it just about branding and advertising,...
10/27/2021 2:19:11 PM Is 'Buy Now Pay Later' Really The Future For Retail or Is There Something Bigger? By Stephen Sumner Before the advent of today's credit card or their historical equivalents, people had to save up and have the funds available to make a...
5/28/2021 9:07:39 AM Can I use social media in procurement and supply chain? By Tim Hughes When Adam Gray and I started DLA Ignite we had a clear vision on how we were going to change the world, which is very much alive today. ...
5/17/2021 1:26:14 PM The Secret That Marketing Can't Share with the CEO & CFO. By Stephen Sumner Over the years I've worked with some really great CEO's and CFO's, many of them were responsible for steering major international...
4/12/2021 10:36:36 AM The Banking & Finance Sector Called - They Want Their 90's Marketing Back. By Stephen Sumner 'Social Proof' is one of the biggest key drivers in forming buying (or not) opinions with decision makers because they are looking to...
3/29/2021 5:10:20 PM How can I grow my Sales pipeline with Social, Digital, Virtual Selling..? By Digital Leadership Associates This affects all of us… “In a recent Forrester survey, 62% of B2B buyers said they can now develop selection criteria or finalize a...
1/18/2021 12:00:00 AM How Wealth Managers Can Stay Ahead of the Digital Curve in 2021 By Tim Hughes This is a great article written by my friend April Rudin about the changes taking place in sales within banking, insurance and wealth...
1/11/2021 12:00:00 AM What’s Slowing Down Digital Transformation in Insurance? By Tim Hughes This is a great article about the changes taking place in sales within banking, insurance and wealth management. To quote this article...
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...
10/31/2020 11:09:44 AM Why Financial Institutions Must Build Long-Term Digital Strategies Now By Tim Hughes The other week I was on a webinar, I was invited on to talk about digital, digital disruption, digital transformation and the use of...
10/30/2020 12:00:00 AM Why Digitalization, Transforms the Post-Pandemic Supply Chain By Tim Hughes In some recent research, a survey of 500+ professionals reveals where procurement and supply chain must focus to establish leadership and...