At the recent Professional Marketing Forum conference (I wrote a review for the magazine which was published on 1st November) http://www.pmforum.co.uk/magazine/ futurologist Chris Yapp gave his view on the future of professional firms. He referred to the recent research by Deloitte/Oxford University which focused on the impact of artificial intelligence Read More
I recently did some work on The Lawyer’s employee workplace benefits research into 70 law firms that resulted in articles in both The Lawyer http://www.thelawyer.com/ (15 June 2015) and Employee Benefits http://www.employeebenefits.co.uk/ (July/August 2015) magazines. The overall findings were that there was less flexibility and innovation in employee benefits in Read More
KPMG hosted a panel discussion last night where some of the brightest stars of professional services marketing shared their reflections, insights and advice on how to break through to the next step of your career beyond Head of Marketing roles. I’ve summarised the key points from speakers and contributors (Simon Read More
A couple of months ago there was a bit of a furore about reports that some business development and marketing people at London’s top law firms were being paid as much as £477,000 (even though this turned out to be a combination of the highest base salary awarded (£345,000) combined Read More
I was interested to see the Econsultancy research infographic on the essential skills for modern marketers back in May https://econsultancy.com/blog/64903-what-are-the-essential-skills-for-modern-marketers-infographic#i.1id4kau1ds2dmr – especially when compared to the recently launched new Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) standards: http://kimtasso.com/views-new-marketing-standards-cim/ which is summarised as follows: Core Technical Behaviours Insights Reputation, risk and compliance Commercially Read More