Double Dutch is a premium soft drinks and mixer company founded in 2014 by twin sisters Raissa and Joyce De Haas in London. While gaining initial credibility in the industry was challenging, securing a deal with Fortnum & Mason provided validation that helped the brand grow. The company is now expanding its product line to cater to different alcohol tastes and focusing on international growth, with a goal to operate in 15 countries by the end of the year. Digital tools like LinkedIn helped the founders connect with industry contacts early on. The brand is now sold in stores like Harvey Nichols and hotels like InterContinental, and the founders are experimenting with new flavors.
The Best of 5 Recommended Digital Marketing Companies.Merry D'souza
‘The Best of 5 Recommended Digital Marketing Companies,’ is the edition that brings a few of the incredible stories related to the digital marketing agencies that are dynamically making a difference in this sector by providing unique services to their clients.
Source: https://ciolookindia.com/the-best-of-5-recommended-digital-marketing-companies-january-2021/
The document discusses how companies can address the digital shift by hiring and embedding the right talent. It notes that chief digital officers are hiring data scientists, designers, engineers and other digital experts to drive transformation. However, these digital hubs need to be integrated across the entire organization to ensure changes are not reversed. Companies are hiring talent from different sectors to find solutions rather than domain expertise. The role of the chief digital officer is seen as pivotal but needs senior leadership support to effect widespread transformation.
This edition includes a unique combination of valuable forecasts, inspiring ideas, and truly inventive work created for top brands such as Nike, Burberry, Whole Foods, Lincoln and Lenovo. Contributors include thought leaders from SoDA member companies around the globe and notable guest authors from Chobani, SheSays, Adobe, LVMH and AgencyAgile. In this volume, SoDA was fortunate to work with partner AOL to debut some of the findings from its proprietary study on shrinking purchase windows and the multiplier effect of smartphone usage on those reduced timelines for making decisions across a wide variety of product and service categories.
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*Please note that certain anchor links will only work if the publication is downloaded locally. Additionally, full interactive functionality of the report (photo carousels) are accessible via the free tablet app.
Colliers International has released reports on global retail real estate trends, finding the outlook is promising led by recovery in the US and growing developments in emerging markets, and on innovations in new community developments focusing on greenfield and urban renaissance projects and identifying trends such as comprehensive planning, portfolio economics, and public-private partnerships. The document also provides a Q&A with Craig Robinson, President of Colliers International USA, who discusses his motivation coming from making a difference and positioning Colliers for greater success.
In this edition of “The 10 Renowned E-Banking Solution Providers of 2021” we are enlisting organizations that are most renowned for offering reliable and innovative E-Banking Solutions. Featuring on the cover of this edition is VeriPark, a global solutions provider for financial institutions. Since its inception, the company is helping its clients to turn their processes into digital environments. It works collaboratively with clients to develop innovative technology strategies and solutions, touching millions of people every day and bringing the promise of digital transformation to life.
The 10 most recommended e commerce solution providersMerry D'souza
The 10 Most Recommended E-Commerce Solution Providers have handpicked a few such companies that are offering a helping hand to online business. On the cover,
we have GYSO that delivers an outstanding result to its clients by combining a data-driven approach with hands-on impeccable knowledge of Digital, Print, TV & Retail.
Innovation and digital disruption in professional servicesTapmint
This is a presentation for http://tapmint.com which I gave internally at one of the world's largest professional services firms. It discusses digital disruption in financial services, professional services and accounting services.
Various models of corporate innovation are also highlighted. Case studies of 3 companies are provided - Suncorp Group, Sensis and Carsales. Finally, I provide some thoughts on implementation.
The Best of 5 Recommended Digital Marketing Companies.Merry D'souza
‘The Best of 5 Recommended Digital Marketing Companies,’ is the edition that brings a few of the incredible stories related to the digital marketing agencies that are dynamically making a difference in this sector by providing unique services to their clients.
Source: https://ciolookindia.com/the-best-of-5-recommended-digital-marketing-companies-january-2021/
The document discusses how companies can address the digital shift by hiring and embedding the right talent. It notes that chief digital officers are hiring data scientists, designers, engineers and other digital experts to drive transformation. However, these digital hubs need to be integrated across the entire organization to ensure changes are not reversed. Companies are hiring talent from different sectors to find solutions rather than domain expertise. The role of the chief digital officer is seen as pivotal but needs senior leadership support to effect widespread transformation.
This edition includes a unique combination of valuable forecasts, inspiring ideas, and truly inventive work created for top brands such as Nike, Burberry, Whole Foods, Lincoln and Lenovo. Contributors include thought leaders from SoDA member companies around the globe and notable guest authors from Chobani, SheSays, Adobe, LVMH and AgencyAgile. In this volume, SoDA was fortunate to work with partner AOL to debut some of the findings from its proprietary study on shrinking purchase windows and the multiplier effect of smartphone usage on those reduced timelines for making decisions across a wide variety of product and service categories.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Please note that certain anchor links will only work if the publication is downloaded locally. Additionally, full interactive functionality of the report (photo carousels) are accessible via the free tablet app.
Colliers International has released reports on global retail real estate trends, finding the outlook is promising led by recovery in the US and growing developments in emerging markets, and on innovations in new community developments focusing on greenfield and urban renaissance projects and identifying trends such as comprehensive planning, portfolio economics, and public-private partnerships. The document also provides a Q&A with Craig Robinson, President of Colliers International USA, who discusses his motivation coming from making a difference and positioning Colliers for greater success.
In this edition of “The 10 Renowned E-Banking Solution Providers of 2021” we are enlisting organizations that are most renowned for offering reliable and innovative E-Banking Solutions. Featuring on the cover of this edition is VeriPark, a global solutions provider for financial institutions. Since its inception, the company is helping its clients to turn their processes into digital environments. It works collaboratively with clients to develop innovative technology strategies and solutions, touching millions of people every day and bringing the promise of digital transformation to life.
The 10 most recommended e commerce solution providersMerry D'souza
The 10 Most Recommended E-Commerce Solution Providers have handpicked a few such companies that are offering a helping hand to online business. On the cover,
we have GYSO that delivers an outstanding result to its clients by combining a data-driven approach with hands-on impeccable knowledge of Digital, Print, TV & Retail.
Innovation and digital disruption in professional servicesTapmint
This is a presentation for http://tapmint.com which I gave internally at one of the world's largest professional services firms. It discusses digital disruption in financial services, professional services and accounting services.
Various models of corporate innovation are also highlighted. Case studies of 3 companies are provided - Suncorp Group, Sensis and Carsales. Finally, I provide some thoughts on implementation.
Digital Transformation: A $1 Trillion Opportunity (Note: 2015 deck - somewhat...Ketan Kakkad
This is a 2015 deck - somewhat outdated but contextually still very relevant.
According to World Economic Forum, we are in the midst of 4th Industrial Revolution triggered by FUSION of technologies! Convergence of these Digital Technologies is already disrupting existing and well established business models! Please note that this deck has not been touched since early 2016 (uploading just now in mid-2017), so some aspects might be little bit outdated. I would love to hear your thoughts in comments, and do not hesitate if you wish to discuss specifics or engage in a deeper conversation on how we can help you shine through your Digital Journey.
Over 600 marketers, agencies, technologists and digital industry insiders have weighed in. Leading digital agencies have provided thought-provoking articles and case studies. And a 14-person panel comprised of guest contributors and notable CMO advisors have provided their insights. The result: an invaluable planning resource for marketers and agencies in 2011.
The 2011 Digital Marketing Outlook (DMO) study, conducted by SoDA and its research partner, AnswerLab, revealed significant information regarding budgets, hiring strategies and what marketers value the most. For example the study discovered that 80% of marketers plan to increase the volume of digital projects in 2011 with 43% planning to decrease traditional paid media investments.
Bricks and clicks, online and offline, mobile and good old-fashioned customer service are joining up. If ever proof was needed that omnichannel – a single view of the
customer, of sales and of the brand, regardless of channel – is driving new retailing, then Christmas 2013 was it.
Changes in the way customers shop and behave reached a tipping point and online/offline hybrids like click-and-collect, as well as mobile commerce dominated the Christmas shopping landscape. The clear winners were those who captured the omnichannel zeitgeist, like Next and John Lewis Partnership, whose click-and-collect saw a 61.8 per cent increase in orders on last year.
Amazon also announced a record-setting holiday season, with 426 items per second ordered worldwide on Cyber Monday. Amazon Prime, the annual membership program offering unlimited free Two-Day Shipping, attracted more than a million new customers around the world in the third week of December.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The first six weeks of 2014 has seen announcements from Tesco and Waitrose, entering into partnership with Transport for
London to open grocery collection points at London underground stations. Stores are transforming – with a new innovation store in Preston for Morrisons and
a ‘technology playground’ from Verizon providing just a couple of examples. Apple and Amazon are making inroads into the mobile payment market. And Amazon continues to play the role of retail pioneer, with new fulfilment initiatives that leave many of the high street stalwarts in its wake.
Nowhere is this transformation clearer than in the new talents and capabilities that top teams need to thrive, flourish and steer retail brands to success in today’s market. It is time to remove vertical silos and improve integration through cross-functional teams. Omnichannel’s need for increased collaboration, and shared information from a single, centralised knowledge base, goes right to the heart of organisational design.
Research and findings in Volume 1 revealed several key shifts in marketer/agency relationships and major discrepancies on topics such as: areas that brands and agencies believe are most valuable to clients, reasons clients walk away from agency relationships and the biggest talent shortfalls within client organizations. In this edition, we continue to explore some of those same findings, offering very different perspectives and lines of reasoning in an effort to challenge our own assumptions and improve our analysis of important industry issues.
The meticulously-curated editorial sections within the Report include Industry Insider, Modern Marketer and Tech Talk. You’ll also find an exemplary collection of projects from SoDA members and partners that feature work with world-renowned brands such as Coca-Cola, Nike, Google, Pepsi, and YouTube in addition to immersive digital experiences for museums and academic institutions.
*Please note that certain anchor links will only work if the publication is downloaded locally.
Quels dirigeants pour répondre aux défis de la transformation numérique ?
C’est désormais la direction générale qui doit avoir une vue claire des enjeux de la transformation numérique, ses modalités et ses conséquences pour prendre les décisions pertinentes. Cela implique une évolution majeure de leurs compétences, de leur vision même de la gouvernance de l’entreprise mais aussi de leur manière de décider.
Kienbaum a mené une étude auprès de plus de 100 dirigeants français issus d’industries différentes pour évaluer transversalement les nouveaux critères prévalant dans la recherche de dirigeants à l’heure de la transformation numérique.
Première conclusion : Le digital est un challenge avant tout humain. A l’ère de la transformation digitale, le bagage académique et le parcours professionnel comptent moins qu’un certain nombre de qualités « entrepreneuriales », notamment dans la prise de décision. Les critères qui désormais arrivent en premier rang sont nettement d’ordre comportemental et relèvent du capital humain. Le dirigeant à l’ère digitale présente des qualités spécifiques : « Preneur de risque, audacieux », « orienté client », « Ouvert, à l’écoute, humble et auto-apprenant », « Personnalité inspirante et fédératrice »
Le digital et l’innovation touchant directement au business model de l’entreprise, il y a un appel et une nécessité claire d’une volonté infaillible au plus haut niveau de l’entreprise.
Deuxième conclusion : Le changement est au cœur de la transformation digitale. C’est pourquoi les profils recherchés sont avant tout des profils vecteurs de changement. L’initiation, l’accompagnement et l’itération du changement sont les vrais moteurs en termes de discipline de cette transition/révolution numérique.
Troisième conclusion : Les compétences techniques ne sont pas premières. Les compétences ou traits de leadership primordiaux dans cet environnement de changement appartiennent plutôt à la famille des "soft skills" ou aptitudes interpersonnelles.
Quatrième conclusion : émergence d’un « leadership digital ». En phase avec ce que pense le marché aujourd’hui et ce qu’il attendra de ses leaders dans un avenir proche, Kienbaum a dégagé 4 dimensions de leadership qui semblent régir les enjeux des entreprises et des CEO dans ce nouveau paradigme digital.
Si les premières dimensions « réflexion stratégique & exécution » et « leadership & vision » sont les fondamentaux d’hier et d’aujourd’hui du profil type du leader recherché, l’association des dimensions « orientation humaine » et « conscience de soi & remise en cause » au même niveau de considération et d’impératif représentent une évolution qui redéfinit les exigences et attentes au plus haut niveau.
Ces conclusions réorientent de manière significative la recherche des leaders d’entreprise de demain.
Join the best thinkers in social as they discuss their predictions for 2015 in a special 90 minute webinar.
Learn:
· How real-time marketing grows up and agile marketing will be embraced by the industry
· Why data safety and security will be a top priority
· How corporations will connect to startups and create new types of business models
· Why cause marketing (i.e. companies for good) will be a higher priority for corporate brand activities
Salt is a leading global digital recruitment consultancy that specializes in placing professionals in permanent and contract roles within the digital ecosystem. They assist clients in finding specialist talent to transform, optimize, innovate or disrupt their businesses. Salt has extensive experience recruiting globally across creative, marketing, technical, and sales disciplines. They use a combination of traditional and unique recruitment methods to source high-performing candidates.
Insights Success has listed “The 10 Most Successful Companies to Watch, 2018,” which are dominating their respective verticals with their innovative products and service offerings.
Innovation That Matters reports on the state of entrepreneurship in the U.S. civic
sector, which we define as the collection of highly regulated industries with entrenched institutional players intended to serve the public good. The purpose of this research is to understand how civic sector startup ecosystems have developed, what challenges actors in these ecosystems currently face, and what more can be done to increase startup activity in ways that benefits society. We find that fluid, open networks are the most important element in fostering vibrant communities of civic entrepreneurship because they connect diverse stakeholders within an industry and bridge cultural gaps to allow for effective collaboration.
The document discusses Salt, a global digital recruitment consultancy. It summarizes Salt's services and specializations. Salt excels at finding specialist digital talent to help clients transform, innovate, or disrupt their businesses. Salt specializes in placing professionals in permanent and contract roles across creative, marketing, technical, and sales disciplines. Salt aims to deliver high-performance candidates who can significantly grow clients' digital footprint or steer digital transformation.
The document describes Salt, a global digital recruitment consultancy. It specializes in placing professionals in permanent and contract roles across creative, marketing, technical, and sales disciplines of the digital ecosystem. Salt has extensive global experience, working with clients ranging from large digital leaders to startups and SMEs. It aims to find clients the high-performance talent needed to significantly grow their digital footprint or lead digital transformations.
The document discusses why various businesses use social media. It provides quotes from business owners explaining their social media strategies and goals. They aim to engage customers, build their brand, gain feedback, stay connected with their community, reach new audiences, and more. The low cost of social media makes it accessible for small businesses to promote themselves.
How Google is forcing brands to reassess their entire business modelStickyeyes
Jonny Artis, Director of Search at Stickyeyes, discusses how Google's approach to search is fundamentally changing the way in which brands position themselves, their service and their product.
Salt is a global digital recruitment consultancy that specializes in placing professionals into permanent and contract roles across creative, marketing, technical, and sales disciplines. They assist clients in finding specialist talent to transform, optimize, innovate or disrupt their businesses. Salt has extensive experience globally and works with clients ranging from global digital leaders to startups and SMEs. They use a mix of recruitment techniques including headhunting, events, and partnerships to source high-caliber candidates to meet clients' long and short-term needs.
The 10 most successful companies to watch 2018Merry D'souza
In this issue Insights, Success has listed “The 10 Most Successful Companies to Watch, 2018,” which are dominating their respective verticals with their innovative products and service offerings. Featuring as the Cover story is Zudy®, a company which is making waves with its revolutionary no-code app development platform, VINYL. A dream team of solution architects at Zudy® create or transform enterprise solutions in days, not months or years.
If you’re not already thinking about how to increase diversity in your top team, you should be. Some of the world’s most successful organisations know that teams from different backgrounds and perspectives are sharper and more innovative, and perform better for their clients than teams who look, think and feel the same. And rather than producing flash-in-the-pan success, this type of mix is a recipe for sustainable improvements over the long term.
But if you, like us, spend most of your life running a business or heading up a large department, you probably don’t have much spare time to think about diversity. So we’ve produced this guide purely for busy executives who want to decipher why this matters to their organisation’s ability to grow and evolve, and who need to talk to other people about it, but perhaps aren’t sure how.
We wanted to do it in a way that doesn’t turn it into a chore. The book unfolds in ten simple chapters, each of which shouldn’t take much more than a minute to read – but behind each chapter there’s a wealth of information, with Green Park’s suggestions for further reading at the end.
Failure to capture talent from the widest possible pool could cost you dearly. There is a myth of lack of talent; nothing could be further from the truth. There’s no shortage of high-calibre candidates from under-represented groups, but sourcing them often requires the focus, market intelligence and reach that only an expert executive search firm can provide.
With this is mind, we’ve created Green Park Diversity Analytics, chaired by Trevor Phillips, a research and advisory body, which uses unique quantitative modelling to analyse the executive labour market by specific dimensions of diversity. Our methodology can help us to identify gaps and source the best candidates for your team, bringing results that are quicker, less intrusive and more accurate than anything currently in the diversity field.
We hope you find this guide helpful.
LLORENTE & CUENCA se posiciona entre los líderes mundiales de la comunicaciónLLYC
PR Week ha publicado el Global Agency Business Report 2016, un informe de inteligencia sobre el sector de la comunicación en el que analiza la información facilitada por más de 300 firmas de PR líderes a nivel mundial, procedentes de siete regiones (EE. UU., Reino Unido, Asia-Pacífico, las Américas, Oriente Medio y Europa Continental).
El desarrollo internacional de LLORENTE & CUENCA, con oficinas en Estados Unidos, América Latina y España, ha llevado la Firma a ocupar el puesto 53 del ranking global por ingresos. Por número de empleados, ocupa el puesto 27, a nivel global, con un total de 482 empleados en el momento de elaboración del ranking. Además, ocupa el puesto 19 en Europa y la posición 7 en América.
Manifesto Document October 2014 updatedPenny Power
The Digital Business Britain Manifesto 2011 aims to increase UK economic output by encouraging businesses and individuals to adopt a digital mindset. It calls for closing the digital skills gap through training, developing digital strategies, embracing ethical online behavior, and recognizing the value of digitally-connected home-based businesses. The 8-point manifesto promotes treating digital business as a critical sector, improving the UK's digital trading position, ensuring national inclusion in the digital economy, and providing digital skills for all.
The Most Trustworthy Consulting Companies | The Enterprise WorldThe Enterprise World
The Most Trustworthy Consulting Companies 2019 features the stories of a variety of consulting firms that have helped organizations with the right solutions for growth with their range of services.
Bañar a los perros con demasiada frecuencia puede disminuir sus defensas y causar resecamiento de la piel. La frecuencia adecuada depende del tipo de pelo del perro, ya que el baño provoca una muda de pelo. Aunque el baño no elimina todos los olores, bañar al perro con demasiada frecuencia tampoco es la solución. Para perros que se ensucian mucho, se recomienda usar champú en seco o en polvo y cepillarlos con regularidad.
La Unión Europea ha acordado un paquete de sanciones contra Rusia por su invasión de Ucrania. Las sanciones incluyen restricciones a las importaciones de productos rusos de alta tecnología y a las exportaciones de bienes de lujo a Rusia. Además, se congelarán los activos de varios oligarcas rusos y se prohibirá el acceso de los bancos rusos a los mercados financieros de la UE.
Digital Transformation: A $1 Trillion Opportunity (Note: 2015 deck - somewhat...Ketan Kakkad
This is a 2015 deck - somewhat outdated but contextually still very relevant.
According to World Economic Forum, we are in the midst of 4th Industrial Revolution triggered by FUSION of technologies! Convergence of these Digital Technologies is already disrupting existing and well established business models! Please note that this deck has not been touched since early 2016 (uploading just now in mid-2017), so some aspects might be little bit outdated. I would love to hear your thoughts in comments, and do not hesitate if you wish to discuss specifics or engage in a deeper conversation on how we can help you shine through your Digital Journey.
Over 600 marketers, agencies, technologists and digital industry insiders have weighed in. Leading digital agencies have provided thought-provoking articles and case studies. And a 14-person panel comprised of guest contributors and notable CMO advisors have provided their insights. The result: an invaluable planning resource for marketers and agencies in 2011.
The 2011 Digital Marketing Outlook (DMO) study, conducted by SoDA and its research partner, AnswerLab, revealed significant information regarding budgets, hiring strategies and what marketers value the most. For example the study discovered that 80% of marketers plan to increase the volume of digital projects in 2011 with 43% planning to decrease traditional paid media investments.
Bricks and clicks, online and offline, mobile and good old-fashioned customer service are joining up. If ever proof was needed that omnichannel – a single view of the
customer, of sales and of the brand, regardless of channel – is driving new retailing, then Christmas 2013 was it.
Changes in the way customers shop and behave reached a tipping point and online/offline hybrids like click-and-collect, as well as mobile commerce dominated the Christmas shopping landscape. The clear winners were those who captured the omnichannel zeitgeist, like Next and John Lewis Partnership, whose click-and-collect saw a 61.8 per cent increase in orders on last year.
Amazon also announced a record-setting holiday season, with 426 items per second ordered worldwide on Cyber Monday. Amazon Prime, the annual membership program offering unlimited free Two-Day Shipping, attracted more than a million new customers around the world in the third week of December.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The first six weeks of 2014 has seen announcements from Tesco and Waitrose, entering into partnership with Transport for
London to open grocery collection points at London underground stations. Stores are transforming – with a new innovation store in Preston for Morrisons and
a ‘technology playground’ from Verizon providing just a couple of examples. Apple and Amazon are making inroads into the mobile payment market. And Amazon continues to play the role of retail pioneer, with new fulfilment initiatives that leave many of the high street stalwarts in its wake.
Nowhere is this transformation clearer than in the new talents and capabilities that top teams need to thrive, flourish and steer retail brands to success in today’s market. It is time to remove vertical silos and improve integration through cross-functional teams. Omnichannel’s need for increased collaboration, and shared information from a single, centralised knowledge base, goes right to the heart of organisational design.
Research and findings in Volume 1 revealed several key shifts in marketer/agency relationships and major discrepancies on topics such as: areas that brands and agencies believe are most valuable to clients, reasons clients walk away from agency relationships and the biggest talent shortfalls within client organizations. In this edition, we continue to explore some of those same findings, offering very different perspectives and lines of reasoning in an effort to challenge our own assumptions and improve our analysis of important industry issues.
The meticulously-curated editorial sections within the Report include Industry Insider, Modern Marketer and Tech Talk. You’ll also find an exemplary collection of projects from SoDA members and partners that feature work with world-renowned brands such as Coca-Cola, Nike, Google, Pepsi, and YouTube in addition to immersive digital experiences for museums and academic institutions.
*Please note that certain anchor links will only work if the publication is downloaded locally.
Quels dirigeants pour répondre aux défis de la transformation numérique ?
C’est désormais la direction générale qui doit avoir une vue claire des enjeux de la transformation numérique, ses modalités et ses conséquences pour prendre les décisions pertinentes. Cela implique une évolution majeure de leurs compétences, de leur vision même de la gouvernance de l’entreprise mais aussi de leur manière de décider.
Kienbaum a mené une étude auprès de plus de 100 dirigeants français issus d’industries différentes pour évaluer transversalement les nouveaux critères prévalant dans la recherche de dirigeants à l’heure de la transformation numérique.
Première conclusion : Le digital est un challenge avant tout humain. A l’ère de la transformation digitale, le bagage académique et le parcours professionnel comptent moins qu’un certain nombre de qualités « entrepreneuriales », notamment dans la prise de décision. Les critères qui désormais arrivent en premier rang sont nettement d’ordre comportemental et relèvent du capital humain. Le dirigeant à l’ère digitale présente des qualités spécifiques : « Preneur de risque, audacieux », « orienté client », « Ouvert, à l’écoute, humble et auto-apprenant », « Personnalité inspirante et fédératrice »
Le digital et l’innovation touchant directement au business model de l’entreprise, il y a un appel et une nécessité claire d’une volonté infaillible au plus haut niveau de l’entreprise.
Deuxième conclusion : Le changement est au cœur de la transformation digitale. C’est pourquoi les profils recherchés sont avant tout des profils vecteurs de changement. L’initiation, l’accompagnement et l’itération du changement sont les vrais moteurs en termes de discipline de cette transition/révolution numérique.
Troisième conclusion : Les compétences techniques ne sont pas premières. Les compétences ou traits de leadership primordiaux dans cet environnement de changement appartiennent plutôt à la famille des "soft skills" ou aptitudes interpersonnelles.
Quatrième conclusion : émergence d’un « leadership digital ». En phase avec ce que pense le marché aujourd’hui et ce qu’il attendra de ses leaders dans un avenir proche, Kienbaum a dégagé 4 dimensions de leadership qui semblent régir les enjeux des entreprises et des CEO dans ce nouveau paradigme digital.
Si les premières dimensions « réflexion stratégique & exécution » et « leadership & vision » sont les fondamentaux d’hier et d’aujourd’hui du profil type du leader recherché, l’association des dimensions « orientation humaine » et « conscience de soi & remise en cause » au même niveau de considération et d’impératif représentent une évolution qui redéfinit les exigences et attentes au plus haut niveau.
Ces conclusions réorientent de manière significative la recherche des leaders d’entreprise de demain.
Join the best thinkers in social as they discuss their predictions for 2015 in a special 90 minute webinar.
Learn:
· How real-time marketing grows up and agile marketing will be embraced by the industry
· Why data safety and security will be a top priority
· How corporations will connect to startups and create new types of business models
· Why cause marketing (i.e. companies for good) will be a higher priority for corporate brand activities
Salt is a leading global digital recruitment consultancy that specializes in placing professionals in permanent and contract roles within the digital ecosystem. They assist clients in finding specialist talent to transform, optimize, innovate or disrupt their businesses. Salt has extensive experience recruiting globally across creative, marketing, technical, and sales disciplines. They use a combination of traditional and unique recruitment methods to source high-performing candidates.
Insights Success has listed “The 10 Most Successful Companies to Watch, 2018,” which are dominating their respective verticals with their innovative products and service offerings.
Innovation That Matters reports on the state of entrepreneurship in the U.S. civic
sector, which we define as the collection of highly regulated industries with entrenched institutional players intended to serve the public good. The purpose of this research is to understand how civic sector startup ecosystems have developed, what challenges actors in these ecosystems currently face, and what more can be done to increase startup activity in ways that benefits society. We find that fluid, open networks are the most important element in fostering vibrant communities of civic entrepreneurship because they connect diverse stakeholders within an industry and bridge cultural gaps to allow for effective collaboration.
The document discusses Salt, a global digital recruitment consultancy. It summarizes Salt's services and specializations. Salt excels at finding specialist digital talent to help clients transform, innovate, or disrupt their businesses. Salt specializes in placing professionals in permanent and contract roles across creative, marketing, technical, and sales disciplines. Salt aims to deliver high-performance candidates who can significantly grow clients' digital footprint or steer digital transformation.
The document describes Salt, a global digital recruitment consultancy. It specializes in placing professionals in permanent and contract roles across creative, marketing, technical, and sales disciplines of the digital ecosystem. Salt has extensive global experience, working with clients ranging from large digital leaders to startups and SMEs. It aims to find clients the high-performance talent needed to significantly grow their digital footprint or lead digital transformations.
The document discusses why various businesses use social media. It provides quotes from business owners explaining their social media strategies and goals. They aim to engage customers, build their brand, gain feedback, stay connected with their community, reach new audiences, and more. The low cost of social media makes it accessible for small businesses to promote themselves.
How Google is forcing brands to reassess their entire business modelStickyeyes
Jonny Artis, Director of Search at Stickyeyes, discusses how Google's approach to search is fundamentally changing the way in which brands position themselves, their service and their product.
Salt is a global digital recruitment consultancy that specializes in placing professionals into permanent and contract roles across creative, marketing, technical, and sales disciplines. They assist clients in finding specialist talent to transform, optimize, innovate or disrupt their businesses. Salt has extensive experience globally and works with clients ranging from global digital leaders to startups and SMEs. They use a mix of recruitment techniques including headhunting, events, and partnerships to source high-caliber candidates to meet clients' long and short-term needs.
The 10 most successful companies to watch 2018Merry D'souza
In this issue Insights, Success has listed “The 10 Most Successful Companies to Watch, 2018,” which are dominating their respective verticals with their innovative products and service offerings. Featuring as the Cover story is Zudy®, a company which is making waves with its revolutionary no-code app development platform, VINYL. A dream team of solution architects at Zudy® create or transform enterprise solutions in days, not months or years.
If you’re not already thinking about how to increase diversity in your top team, you should be. Some of the world’s most successful organisations know that teams from different backgrounds and perspectives are sharper and more innovative, and perform better for their clients than teams who look, think and feel the same. And rather than producing flash-in-the-pan success, this type of mix is a recipe for sustainable improvements over the long term.
But if you, like us, spend most of your life running a business or heading up a large department, you probably don’t have much spare time to think about diversity. So we’ve produced this guide purely for busy executives who want to decipher why this matters to their organisation’s ability to grow and evolve, and who need to talk to other people about it, but perhaps aren’t sure how.
We wanted to do it in a way that doesn’t turn it into a chore. The book unfolds in ten simple chapters, each of which shouldn’t take much more than a minute to read – but behind each chapter there’s a wealth of information, with Green Park’s suggestions for further reading at the end.
Failure to capture talent from the widest possible pool could cost you dearly. There is a myth of lack of talent; nothing could be further from the truth. There’s no shortage of high-calibre candidates from under-represented groups, but sourcing them often requires the focus, market intelligence and reach that only an expert executive search firm can provide.
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2. 2
Businessesthroughoutthecountryhavesharedexperiences
ofthinkingdigital,showcasinghowmuchofanimpactsimple
adjustmentscanmake.
Meet and learn from
our Digital Champions
B
ritish enterprise is booming, and this is in no
small part down to the growing community
of entrepreneurs not afraid to back their big
idea and take on established industry
heavyweights.
One of the biggest contributors to the growth
of SMEs in the UK is the lowering of barriers to
entry, the roadblocks previously in place stopping
ambitious business builders from taking those
early steps.
These days, armed with only a laptop and a
good idea, businesses can be up and running
within days – rather than weeks, months or years.
The tools today’s entrepreneurs have at their
disposal would make them the envy of business
leaders a few decades ago.
However, with so many options available to
help with business growth, a considered and
planned approach is required. Our 30 Digital
Champions initiative, held in partnership with
Microsoft over six months, has been all about
finding British companies, and the individuals at
the helm of each, which are leading the way in
progressive digital thinking.
Whether it is a new business disrupting a
stagnant space, or an established SME thinking
differently about a particular business process, the
companies brought together throughout the
campaign have served as great inspiration for
anyone else wondering how digital can be a big
enabler.
We’ve profiled businesses in the food and
drinks space, health and wellness areas, and even
one renting out restoredVW camper vans.
Entrepreneurs young and more experienced have
explained where technologies such as CRM
system or video conferencing have made a big
difference.
However, we wanted to find out more – push a
select few businesses on not just what is working
now, but what they think will be a game-changer in
the future.To do that, we brought together five of
our favourite 30 Digital Champion business
leaders for an intimate roundtable discussion.
The questions posed were all about where their
companies are going in the next few years, what
technological tools have the most potential going
forward and the factors holding them back from
making further investments in digital services.
Their responses were enlightening and
thought-provoking, proving that today’s SME
owners and managers are taking digital seriously
and making sure they are fully versed on what is
out there in the market.
This digital guide has pulled together that
roundtable discussion and provided a snapshot of
each five companies. From Jalil Rahman and his
inspiring story of celebrating British shoe design to
Nakul Sharma’s innovative use ofAirbnb as a
platform for growth, each have something
different to say on the topic.
What we hope you take away is some exposure
to relevant digital technologies and a feeling that
entrepreneurs these days have a wide variety of
tools at their disposal – it just comes down to
working out which are the right ones and then
using them efficiently.
Hunter Ruthven
Editor, Real Business
6. 4
Digital champions
Aveqia
Chillisauce
Hostmaker
Love the Sales
Nosh Detox
Watchfinder
Augustus Pili
Don't Buy Her
Flowers
IsosHealth
MADE-BY
Shieldyourself
Wild Knight
English Vodka
Backyard
Cinema
Double Dutch
Josephine
Home
Mallow &
Marsh
The Cornwall
Camper Company
T Plus
Briqs
Fat Buddha
Store
Katherine
Elizabeth
Media Legends
Group
The Counter
Smoke BBQ
Claw
Fisher Jones
Greenwood
Look Fabulous
Forever
Ms. Cupcake
VaioPak Group
Mash Direct
7. 30 Digital Champions
Video insight from
the experts
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Microsoft’sUKSMB
director,Glenn
Woolaghan,what
technologyhethinks
willhavethemost
potentialforgrowth
businessesgoing
forward.
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tofindoutfrom
TechQuarters’headof
businessdevelopment,
MartynWhite,whathe
believesisholdingSMBs
backfrommaking
investmentsin
technology?
10. 8
The twin
sisters going
global with
Richard
Branson
It’snotoftenafounderisthe
literalfaceofabrand,butfor
twinsistersRaissaandJoyce
DeHaas,theyarethe
inspirationbehindtheirdrink.
W
hile the Dutch sisters can now count
billionaireVirgin founder Richard
Branson as a business contact – which
we’ll come to later – the pair had difficulties
getting recognition for their products in the
beginning.
Double Dutch specialises in premium soft
drinks, mixers for gins, vodkas and tequilas
specifically, and Raissa De Hass explained that
securing credibility was a problem initially.
“As a drinks company you really need
wholesalers and distributors, but they won’t list
you if you don’t have customers.That was the
biggestchallenge inthe beginning. I think because
it’s such a dominated market with the likes of
Coca-Cola, it’s hard to get credibility as a small
startup in the industry,” she said.
They set up in London at the end of 2014,
having studied at University College London, and
produced the first product batch in February 2015.
In order to generate business, De Haas recalled
there was a lot of knocking on doors, which
LinkedIn came in particularly helpful for in terms
of reaching contacts in the industry.
Sector: Food and drink
Founded:2014
Size: Under ten employees
Name:DoubleDutch
11. 9
30 Digital Champions
The brand building strategy soon started to take
shape and a deal was struck with Fortnum & Mason,
which provided the credibility the pair were looking
for. From there, others began to follow and Double
Dutch is now be found in the likes of Harvey Nicholls,
InterContinental Hotels and more.
In terms of taking the brand forward, the sisters
are experimenting with product development to
cater to a wider variety of alcohol tastes.“We’re
looking for new flavours for darker spirits and also
focusing on international expansion,” De Haas said.
“We’re in six countries now and at the end of the
year look to be in 15 countries.The US andAsia are
key. Because the bottles are such a small margin, it’s
a big volume business approach – we need to get the
sales and production up to drive costs down in order
to be competitive.”
In addition to the home soil of the UK, Double
Dutch has already pushed into Belgium, the
Netherlands, Spain, Cyprus and Italy.The company
has also unlocked the door to enter the US –
something that was achieved by winningVirgin
Startup’s Foodpreneur Festival in autumn 2015.
The event resulted in the pair securing the
blessing ofVirgin mastermind Richard Branson, as
they won the opportunity to fly toAmerica where
they would pitch forTarget. Grabbing the moment
with all four hands, the sisters successfully won over
the retail giant and their products will be trialled in
300 stores, while there will be the chance to expand
that to all locations – of which there are 2,000.
De Haas said:“The US is by far the best market for
a brand like Double Dutch to grow in.We flew over
with theVirgin team and they helped with pitching
workshops, discussing things like what retail
companies are looking for, which was really useful.”
The duo is now in direct contact withTarget
withoutVirgin acting as a go-between, and the main
difference that has been found with operating in the
US and UK is the change of packaging.With a
four-pack available, which will support the goal of
increasing sales volumes, all information is also
bolder to grab US customers when trials start in
October 2016.
In terms of technology that will help the business
on its impressive growth journey, De Haas is looking
to bolster infrastructure with services like the cloud.
“We’re such a physical product, but all of the
information that comes with that can go to the cloud.
Sometimes problems that occur could be around
labelling or late delivery of ingredients,” she said.
“Having one infrastructure in place to integrate
would improve the supply chain – at the moment
they’re all separate with a supplier for ingredients,
supplier for labels and a supplier for bottles, which
isn’t ideal because it means a lot of planning.
Automating would make things a lot easier, so we’re
speaking with other brands who have been there for
advice.”
She detailed that technology investments can
sometimes be placed on the backburner because of
the expense involved.That said, data security is of
particular importance, given the sharing of content
online along the supply chain.
“We really want to generate a proper
infrastructure to put everything together with one
system, so everyone can add their input and see how
the process is coming along,” De Haas added.
With the sisters running the ship, a handful of
sales people on the ground in Manchester, Leeds,
Liverpool, Birmingham and London, Double Dutch is
still keeping things lean.And with travelling taking
place for the twins every 10-12 days, a key
investment on their radar to ensure a smooth
operation will be the hire of an operations executive
who can take charge when they’re generating brand
growth.This will ultimately ensure things remain
“perfectly balanced” for the ambtious duo as they
move forward in the drinks world.
12. 1010
AugustusPili’sfounderwasaself-taughtdesignerwhowantedto
createacompanythatwouldreflectasmanyofhisexperiences,
andasmuchofhispersonality,aspossible.
World-famousmusicians
androyaltyarebuying
fromthisone-manbrand
J
alil Rahman, founder ofAugustus Pili, was
inspiredtostarthisownbusinessinJanuary
2015 after he struggled to find shoes that
had the type of personality he craved.“It always
seemed like they came in two extremes – your
standard classic brogues and then your Cuban
heels with glitter,” he said.
The manufacturing side of the product first
came about in November 2014, after he fleshed
out the brand’s concept and presented the ideas
to friends and family. Encouraged by strong
endorsements, he sought the assistance of the
British FootwearAssociation to locate production
in the UK.
With the help of the association’s CEO, John
Saunders, Rahman found a family-run business
that had been established in Northampton in the
1800s, which eventually became his
manufacturing partner – and even before
production of the shoes began, technology
proved to be crucial.
“In the early days,” he explained,
“Skype was the reason I got connected to
my manufacturing partner. I pitched my
idea over the video tool to the factory’s
team.Aside from that, a really good,
solid PowerPoint presentation got
people convinced to gamble on
Sector: Fashion
Founded: 2015
Size:One
Name:AugustusPili
13. INSPIRING AND
CHAMPIONING
HIGH-GROWTH
BUSINESSES
SINCE 1997
30 Digital Champions
11
my offering.And while on the topic of
communication, Facebook Messenger
has proved invaluable in terms of
connecting with customers as far
afield as Kuwait,Angola, Ghana
and Nigeria.”
Being able to sell a luxury
product to Ghana, or even the ability
to find a manufacturing firm so
quickly, would have been almost
impossible ten years ago, Rahman suggested.
Unveiling more about his current partnership,
Rahman said:“The machinery is 100 years old, it’s
like a theatre. I’ve made pink suede shoes, which
the factory workers seem uncomfortable in
making. It’s funny though, as everyone in the
factory knows when one of my fabrics has been
delivered. Nonetheless, it has endeared staff to
the project.”
That the manufacturing firm also had a
legacy and heritage of its own was of
great importance to Rahman given
thatAugustus Pili is said to be the
reincarnation of classic English
craftsmanship.“I want British
footwear to get the recognition it
truly deserves, and soAugustus Pili
was born from the thought ‘what if
the British men’s shoe could be reborn
today?’”
Rahman said:“If tradition needs renewal to
keep it relevant, I believeAugustus Pili will have
the authority to challenge it to inspire rather than
define what a shoe can be.”
And the single most important aspect of
building this brand and carving out a bigger
market, Rahman explained, was by taking
on board a digital approach. Digital
platforms such as Facebook have
providedAugustus Pili with a true
level playing field when it comes to
global engagement and potential
for conversions, Rahman said. He
added that, given the firm’s current
focus on building its ecommerce
platform, tools such as Shopify and
OpenCart had been key.
Social media has also been
instrumental to the company’s
growth.After launching the brand
publicly at the British Fashion
Council’s seasonal event London
Collections Men in January 2015,
Rahman made it a priority to set up
company pages on Facebook and
Instagram.
“This was a decision which proved to be
crucial to our current success within social media.
And through such means I’ve managed to secure
business from global musicians and international
royalty,” he said.
But let’s also not forget that in some way
“technology” helped madeAugustus Pili’s shoes
–“It’s just very old technology and traditional
techniques”, Rahman stressed.“However, I could
not found this company at all without the
enabling power of the modern era’s
digital technology.”
At the same time, Rahman cited
timing as one of the biggest
hurdles the company needed to
jump. However, this has been
made easier through the use of
digital technology and lean
principles, which has keptAugustus Pili
as responsive as possible.
“For example, we are able to acquire feedback
from fans on new design samples before
committing,” he said.As crucial as the online
world may be, Rahman emphasised that a
combination of bricks and clicks was sure-fire way
to scale the firm: "Our ambition is to truly mean
something to our customers and add to
their lives.“We have already got a
roster of men doing interesting
things with their lives together to
join our first cohort of
ambassadors."
Rahman seems to be building
digital into the DNA of the brand,
and we await to see what impact
digital will have on the "old world".
14. Sector:Hospitality
Founded: 2014
Size:50 employees
Name:Hostmaker
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aving climbed the ranks and held
employment for a variety of established
hotel chains, he was well aware ofAirbnb’s
arrival on the market and the feeling of unease it
had caused some establishments.
As a user of the home rental platform since 2012,
Sharma was in the midst of writing a paper on how
the service had made an impact on traditional
hotels. His research allowed him to discover that the
ages of hosts and travellers alike were anything
from twenties right to seventies.
Sensing a“real alternative to the hotel
experience”, Sharma and his wife placed their
home onAirbnb to use it as a test lab, which
resulted in the creation of Hostmaker – a hospitality
service designed to offer unrivalled housekeeping
support forAirbnb hosts.
Launched in 2014, Hostmaker has grown
significantly to 50 members of staff over the past
two years, and expanded beyond its London
borders to now also serve Rome, Paris and
Barcelona.
Sharma detailed:“We have teams on the
ground to ensure services are carried out and we
support 500 homes across the four cities. Growth is
double digit month-on-month and, asAirbnb
expands, our niche is growing.”
With Sharma’s experience in strategy and
management rather than engineering, he calls
himself as a“non-technical founder” and said the
business was able to scale to £1m in revenue using
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clear this
hospitality
service had
something
special
HostmakerfounderNakul
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free online tools, including documents, camera and
video.The company closed a second funding round
of £1.5m eight months ago.
“The technical challenge for a non-tech founder
has been huge.We got the business off the ground
because of industry experience and I knew we didn’t
need online to start the company off,” said Sharma.
“For me, the housekeepers are my developers.
Every four days they’re the ones turning a home
around for the night. It doesn’t matter if I have
beautiful website if customers come back to find
dirty homes.”
The rapid growth led to a high-pressure
environment, which saw Sharma seek outside
assistance.That in itself was an arduous task he
revealed, with many agencies unable to
understand the company’s
needs.
“We struggled a lot in
finding a partner who
would understand our
growth pace, which had
reached 50 per cent month-on-month,” he said.That
rapid scale meant that for every problem solved, a
new one would arise again.
“It took me a month to explain a problem to an
outside partner and by then it was something else,
so it was a huge challenge. It was a scenario of ‘do I
find a CTO or developer in-house or go to an outside
agency?’”
After finding a partner that was deemed
trustworthy, one located in Nepal, the event of the
April 2015 earthquake threw communications off of
the grid and the business was off track for a month.
Sharma said it got to a point where the changing
situations meant six months of work, worth around
£30,000-£50,000, had to be scrapped.
Three key methods that helped Hostmaker
survive were email, shared drives and video
conferences. Sharma said:“We were tracking keys
to homes with BarCloud tech and using calendars
– that helped us survive and got us off the ground.”
There were even times when Uber was used to
transfer keys. Tech aside, Sharma had two
approaches to the business that worked wonders.
“We didn’t spend money on marketing until month
11 – the operation is your marketing,” he insisted.
Secondly, the gift of time was used.“In our first
week, we won our very first bit of business, it was
just me going to see the customer who had found
the website.While a housekeeper was cleaning her
home I spent three hours chatting to the customer.
You’d think it’s making me £40, and I was spending
three hours of my day there with one customer.”
But, the customer was so impressed, Hostmaker
received outstanding feedback, which led to even
larger recognition – Airbnb came knocking.
He continued:“That customer wrote us a
page-long review on a forum and
I got a call fromAirbnb in San Francisco in our first
week – that was a huge moment for the business.”
Three months later and Sharma was invited to
SiliconValley, which assured him Hostmaker
was onto something
special, while highlighting the fact
that even in the digital age, a friendly and
helpful customer service is
always welcome.
16. Name:Chillisauce
Sector:Events
Founded:2001
Size: 100+ employees
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B
y delivering innovative,
forward-thinking and often
exclusive experiences and
events, Chillisauce has become a
market leader in the stag and hen
party industry. Representing its
15th year of consecutive growth,
2016 has seen the company
witness major expansion, so it
doesn’t take much to see that
change is brewing – and indeed,
at our Microsoft 30 Digital
Champions roundtable, Baddiley
emphasised that while
technology has always been at
the centre of of the business, it
has recently invested heavily in
IT to streamline processes and
ensure a smoother customer
journey.
To bat the competition away
with a stick, Baddiley claimed
team managers had the freedom
to innovate and develop new
ways of increasing their
departmental efficiency – this, he
said, was what led the company
to often keep ahead of
competitors and stay at the
forefront of its industry.“It’s
particularly key if your business
is heavily focused around the
internet and technology, where
user habits are forever changing
at a lightning pace,” he
explained.
“As people adapt more and
become familiar to new
technologies, communications
and purchase habits, they
develop higher expectations, so
you find yourself in a never-
ending race.”
Of course, this means staying
ahead of the game when it
comes to the type of technology
used within the office as well.
From theTalkDesk phone system,
toAnalytics from Google and
Spicing up weekends for
stags, hens, corporate firms
with international events
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heatmapping, Chillisauce is
evidently an example of a
non-tech firm that has used the
digital world to its advantage
– whether it be to lighten the load
for consumers or its own staff.
Nifty tools seem to be a key
enabler, with Baddiley citing
Google Docs –“a way to get
people off email as much as
possible” – and project
management platformWrike as
quick-fire ways to increase
collaboration among the team
and offshore developers.
“We use Crazy Egg for
heatmaps and Qualaroo for direct
user feedback,” Baddiley
explained.“I'm also heavily
involved in the SEO side of our
business which is vitally
important, so I am always dipping
in and out of the analytical tools
we use such as OpenSiteExplorer,
MozTools, SEMRush and
Majestic.
“I also encourage the use of
Feedly and Pocket for reading lists
and I'm a big fan of HipChat and
Skype for fast communication. Of
course, when you start out,
communication is not a problem
as you probably only ever sit 20
feet from the furthest person in
the office.
“As you get bigger, you find
communication becomes a lot
more difficult – and you start
getting the dreaded ‘CC all’
emails, which cause large
productivity problems.We are
trying to move away from email
in a lot of cases, but it’s so
ingrained into people’s mindset
that it's challenging to make the
shift.”
Indeed, scaling a business
with a variety of partners, from
hotels to farmers, comes with
added challenges.
“The foundation of our
business is firmly in the travel
sector which means working with
a very diverse range of suppliers,”
Baddiley explained.“This means
the levels of technology used by
our suppliers varies enormously.
This is a real challenge as we need
to try and unify information from
global distribution systems to
pen and paper notebooks into a
single system.
“In general, we find the the
travel business technology
options to be very disseminated
with a huge number of options
overlapping each other, without a
single point solution to cover all
our needs." Enter apparent
lifesaver MongoDB, an open
source database that uses a
document-oriented data model.
That, and the firm created an
application with the sole purpose
of helping to remove the need to
send a plethora of diagrams a
developer’s way.
“I can just go in and build it,”
Baddiley said.“It took quite a
while but it allows us to build
much faster.We don’t have to
bother developers for something
that can take days and weeks to
get done.”
Chillisauce still has much
room to grow, and Baddiley is
convinced technology is the
building block to international
success.