5/3/2021 11:30:55 AM Can Marketing Still Lay Golden 'Growth' Eggs in a Post Pandemic World? By Stephen Sumner Prior to this pandemic marketing communications should have been about 8% of the marketing function’s duties. However, it increasingly...
4/26/2021 10:33:00 AM 84 percent of Organisations Acquire Startups to Bolster Innovation - What About Supermarkets?. By Stephen Sumner If you live in the right part of the country (UK) you can now call on a whole raft of app-based systems that promise to bring you...
2/11/2021 8:59:16 AM Why Working With A Start-Up Can Move Your Transformation Strategy at Speed. By Stephen Sumner The world of digital can be a veritable minefield, especially when your company is trying to keep up with all those trendy start-ups who...
2/2/2021 1:01:05 PM Businesses and Buyers have changed. Why haven’t you? By Digital Leadership Associates If you didn’t know this by now then take it as RED. The buying process and journey have now fully tilted, and the pandemic has only...
1/14/2021 12:00:00 AM The Most Effective 'Influencers' Explore Their Passion - So, Why Don't You? By Stephen Sumner I'm not a great believer of the corporate 'vision and values' nonsense. Mainly because this tends to be an outdated boardroom...
1/4/2021 10:25:03 AM Why Customer-Centricity Will Be Even More Critical For Retail Brands to Compete In 2021 By Stephen Sumner For this article I've picked up on a couple of trending stories. My focus is to stimulate the industry to continue to recognise that you...
12/27/2020 11:24:16 AM How the Birth of Welsh Mail Order & Social Media Might Just Help you in 2021? By Stephen Sumner It's been a defining year for sure, not only has this virus managed to upend business sectors of all kinds it's also accelerated the move...
12/13/2020 12:00:00 AM Why The World is Switching to an XaaS model - Everything as a Service. By Stephen Sumner This pandemic has triggered an exodus of companies to accelerate into the digital space. Its impact on businesses has been on four...
12/9/2020 12:00:00 AM No Silver Bullet By Digital Leadership Associates This year we have been set the task of acting, working, and being different. The pandemic has given all people on social media a chance...
12/8/2020 7:56:47 AM Was Debenhams Just a Delayed Car Crash Waiting to Happen? By Stephen Sumner As Mike Ashley continues to grasp victory from the jaws of humiliated defeat in his continued attempt to snap up beleaguered department...
11/8/2020 12:02:42 PM Why Retail Needs 'Entrepreneurial' CEO's More Than Ever Before. By Stephen Sumner "The biggest threat to any company is to lose sight of the why". This also one of the biggest external threats that ultimately leads to...
11/8/2020 11:33:40 AM Retail? - Now is the Time to Not Just Reimagine the Future, But to Energise it? By Stephen Sumner As Wales comes out of Lockdown, and England enters its (we hope) month long second 'lockdown' on Thursday 5th November, along with the...
10/18/2020 10:58:11 AM Why Does Chinese Innovation Grow Faster Than the West? By Stephen Sumner If you're a regular reader of my blogs it probably hasn't gone unnoticed that I keep a watchful eye on commerce and innovation...
10/14/2020 12:00:00 AM Hints, tricks and hacks...the Social Media lie. By Digital Leadership Associates Yesterday I was on an group video call and was asked “what is the one thing we can all be doing better at Social Media for our...
9/27/2020 11:06:18 AM "It's Easier to Give Birth Than it is To Raise the Dead" By Stephen Sumner I'm currently working with a few companies who are utilising my 'Leverage & Build' strategy and to say we are all having an amazing time...
9/14/2020 10:37:19 AM What Big Business Can Learn From the SME Sector. By Stephen Sumner I spend a lot of time posting blogs about several macro consumer focused sectors, including 'Healthcare, Legal, Financial, and Retail'...