10 Ways to Immediately Improve Your Customer Centricity
We all know that adopting a customer-first strategy is essential for business growth and profitability. However, customer centricity has become even more important today, as a result of all the changes in our customers’ behaviour following the global covid...
Do Companies Still Benefit From Having a Market Research Department?
What’s your gut response to the title question about Market Research Departments? Yes? No? Being Swiss I would say it depends! I am probably in the third camp. Yes, if it is a department that integrates and analyses information from multiple sources, and then...
The 5 Essential Rules of Customer Observation for Greater Business Success
One of the best ways I know to understand your customers is to watch and listen to them whenever you can. Customer observation is a powerful, but unfortunately under-utilised tool these days. So when was the last time you got intimate with your customers? If it...
The Good, Bad and Downright Ugly Parts of a Head of Marketing Job
Did you know that the average tenure of a Head of Marketing continues to fall, reaching just 41 months according to the latest Spencer Stuart research published by the WSJ? It is still one of the shortest average terms of office of any chief in the C-suite, according...