This report “Preparing the future workforce” is an important read for leaders of professional services firms (PSFs). Marketing professionals should consider it as part of their environmental analysis (SLEPT) and planning. Commercial advisers and employment lawyers will no doubt find the information of value. HR professionals will be interested in Read More
I was at the Business Book Awards https://www.businessbookawards.co.uk/ in March. I saw Campbell’s humble and humorous acceptance speech when this book scooped the overall winner prize. The judges’ glowing commendations meant that I simply had to read it. The change catalyst is indeed a great book. It's beautifully written and a Read More
Whilst presenting a paper on strategic marketing at a recent professional services marketing conference in Sussex http://kimtasso.com/strategy-silos-is-marketing-guilty-too-align-integrate-focus-educate-and-champion/, one of my fellow presenters was Jonathan Winchester, chief executive of insight6 Limited https://insight6.com/ (which some of you may know as Shoppers Anonymous). He gave a fascinating talk about Client Experience Management (CEM 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
Recruitment in the property sector is tough. Many property practices find their growth ambitions constrained because they can’t recruit enough of the right calibre candidates – at junior and senior levels. In some cases, this results in unseemly salary battles and a constant churn of junior, middle ranking and senior Read More
