Empower

This much I’ve learned

book

The best advice i ever got … Business is about relationships. the worst advice i got … I was once

How to define and drive competitive advantage

car

The role played by customer insight professionals should determine their position in the organisational structure. Melanie Howard provides an interesting

Who is entitled to be entitled?

Market Leader March 2012

Andrew Melsom believes it’s time to reintroduce common courtesy to the workplace

Parents who have brought up their children to

Appealing to Muslims

appeal

In 1991 Stephen King wrote a prescient article predicting, among other things, the rise of the ‘corporate brand’ in coming

Can big companies be radical?

Market Leader 2011

Radical innovations almost invariably come from outsiders – revolutionary entrepreneurs whose style, culture and management are inimical to large, stable

How to make choice easier

choice

If any single word defines the consumer benefit of a market-based society it is ‘choice’. It is rooted in our

Beyond the long tail…

Market Leader 2011

Fru Hazlitt discusses the anticipated and real impact of the digital age on TV production, transmission and revenue streams

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How to pick a winner

winner

Successful entrepreneur Luke Johnson acknowledges that researching the psychological make-up of entrepreneurs is difficult, but here he offers some tips

Sub-prime marketing is over

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Derek Williams, former Managing Director of Cadbury Schweppes, and veteran of recessions past, takes a look at the current scene

Ready for Enterprise 2.0?

enterprise

Consider the tools that anyone with online access has at their disposal today: Wikipedia and others for collaborative authoring, Facebook

Co-creating with consumers: a new way of innovating

Market Leader Spring 2009

It is no secret that the past 20 years have seen a major decline – some would say the slow

Brand valuation: from marketing department to boardroom

table

This idea of brands functioning as corporate assets, rather than expenses, might seem obvious now, but was the basis for

How market leaders can become challenger brands once more

race

Warren Buffett recently revealed that when he plays online bridge against Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft assumes the nom

How brand communities influence innovation and culture

influence

The shift in power between consumer and producer brought by the new technologies has implications for organisations and the control

If we choose to believe what Emerson didn’t say, then we’re all doomed

jeremy bullmore Marketing Leader

This article is reprinted from the latest WPP Annual Report and Accounts, with kind permission. It expands on a theme

What the inventor of the teddy bear has to remind us about advertising

teddy

'The best things in these sermons are as old as the hills,' wrote Seymour Eaton 103 years ago. These are

‘Mad Men’

men

In a Market Leader exclusive, Jeremy Bullmore reveals what it was like for a young man going to a New

Keeping brands healthy

healthy

I recently attended a lecture on the applications of neuroscience to marketing. All the data marketers will ever need, it

Triumph of a better ideology

trap

Market innovation has long been dominated by the world view of engineers and economists – build a better mousetrap and

Learning how to say ‘You’re fired’ successfully

Market Leader March 2012

Sweet Lord Sugar probably learned to yell ‘You’re fired!’ at the midwives while still in his crib, but I was

Thanks for the memories, Kodak

mem

Michael Bayler suggests that we have lost more than just a business with the demise of Kodak

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