Every six months or so I trawl through all the recent editions of The Lawyer magazine in an attempt to identify key trends, weak signals and outliers amongst the large law firms to inform law firm strategy discussions amongst the firms that I work with. Is there any real growth? Commercial Read More
From the last six months of The Lawyer magazine, I picked out the following highlights from the various reports of law firm panels and pitches: Collaborative working with Barclays or RBS (30th June) “If you want a panel place then you need to get used to working in partnership with 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
At the Estates Gazette (EG) inaugural Property Marketing Summit conference on Thursday 26th June 2014 there was a panel session comprising Sean Curtis (Head of B2B at Land Securities), Tim Watson (Head of Strategy at DixonBaxi) and David Fuller (Toolbox Marketing) who considered the role of digital and non-digital marketing Read More
As always, marketers are battling to keep up with all the changes driven by international, technological and economic upheaval. But here are six trends for marketers that caught my eye: 1. Monitor UGC (User Generated Content) The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) indicated that organisations MUST monitor comments, posts, videos and Read More