At a recent thought leadership campaign and project management workshop (http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx) we spent a while considering the strategic context for identifying, gaining support for, developing and executing thought leadership campaigns. These eight essentials emerged from our discussion: 1. Entrepreneurship Marketing is about anticipating client needs and fulfilling them profitably. Thought Read More
I’m always on the lookout for great marketing and communications campaigns and I found an excellent sector initiative by a UK wide accountancy association - Manufacturing and engineering benchmarking thought leadership at MHA. It's a good accountancy marketing case study. The main research publication is the annual report (the latest Read More
At the recent “Marketing planning in a nutshell” training workshop http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx, the focus was on the best way to introduce a marketing planning process into a professional service firm. While many of the larger professional service firms have sophisticated marketing and business development planning processes, some smaller firms are still Read More
Health warning: This book "The Analytical Marketer – How to transform your marketing organization" by Adele Sweetwood is for serious marketers who are faced with adapting their marketing organisations to embrace the exciting (albeit a little bit scary) transformation being driven by the advances in marketing technology and automation. This is an Read More
In September, I facilitated a “Project and Campaign Management” training session for the Professional Marketing Forum (Details of future courses: http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/) While the focus was on understanding the formal project management processes and how they apply in business development and marketing projects, we also considered the issues in terms of Read More
