Four learning & development trends in the digital age
A culture of learning and development (L&D) is crucial for companies that want to compete in industries facing disruption.
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What are “change agents” and why are they the future of organisational culture?
Organisations are currently undergoing a fundamental shift, away from how they were traditionally structured towards a structure that embraces digital transformation.
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Four benefits of considering neurodiversity in marketing and design
An estimated 10% of the population are born with some kind of cognitive difference (in how they understand language, communication, numeracy etc.) that can result in an exclusion from the digital environment.
A rough guide to creating a data-led culture
There are two sides to creating a data-led culture.
A day in the life of… head of HR at digital agency Threepipe
What is it like to be the head of HR at a digital agency?
Read on to hear Loveday Langton explain more about her new role at Threepipe.
How top-performing digital companies use “product thinking” to succeed [Stats]
In order for companies to succeed in the age of digital transformation, it is not only critical to be able to design, build and maintain digital tools and platforms, but also to support those tools with the right way of thinking.
Some businesses are achieving this by combining product development techniques from the world of software development with a start-up mindset, an approach known as “product thinking”.
Attitudes to predictive marketing changing, but silos & skills still pose challenge
Predictive marketing has grown in maturity over the past couple of years, with many more organisations recognising the benefits of using data to predict how customers might behave in future.
Econsultancy’s ‘Embracing Predictive Marketing’ report, the third in this series, suggests that there has been significant progress made within organisations, largely due to a shift in attitude towards building a data-driven culture.
How can employee advocacy boost brand marketing?
When it comes to finding people to promote or champion a brand, companies typically look outwards in search of happy customers.
However, this means many could be overlooking a far more valuable internal asset – their own employees.
Trust, Transparency and Brand Safety
1. Introduction 1.1. Executive summary Trust is seen as a crucial element of brand success. With increasing disruption and competition across all sectors, trust becomes even more important for brands to focus their efforts on. Last year, fake news was a highly contentious issue and it raised concerns about where a brand’s content was appearing. […]
Agencies, do you win business by accident or design?
In the recently published Benchpress agency survey, 38% of agencies stated that winning business was their biggest challenge.
Whilst the specific reasons were not cited, I have a theory.
What marketing leaders can learn about professional development from the military
While conducting research for Econsultancy’s How Marketers Learn report, I spent some time wondering about what company or industry represented best practice in terms of providing development opportunities to its staff which in turn would result in a more effective organisation.
Fortuitously, at around this time I bumped into a retired member from the British Armed Forces. It turns out that there’s quite a lot that professional organisations can learn from the military.
Save the recruitment fees: Focus on process & culture, not more resources
If there’s one common complaint across clients, large and not-so-large, with whom we have worked over the past six years, it’s been around ‘talent’.