Think pieces

Being Good for Business: Admap Prize 2013

Faris Yakob

 

Earlier this year Admap ran their inaugural essay contest on the Future of Planning [which, as I discussed in

Why happy employees aren’t always a good thing

best places to work

According to the service profit chain theory, satisfied employees deliver satisfied customers, which means sales will rise and profits will

Big Data, Big Deal (part 1)

Alex Batchelor, COO of BrainJuicer and former Chairman of The Marketing Society, writes the first chapter of his story of

Brutal Simplicity of Thought

This book, Brutal Simplicity of Thought, brutally reveals the weaknesses, and strengths, of brutal simplicity of thought. The book is

Get Real

Currency is basically just a symbol of belief.
It has no intrinsic value.
In fact, currency may be the ultimate

Generating an Olympics-led recovery?

London 2012

This time last year I wrote a blog on the massive opportunity sport had in bringing the nation together with

Starbucks: 5 things they could have done

Starbucks could have dealt much better with the sticky situation they’ve found themselves in over their underpaid tax. The coffee

We all need to buy selfishly, but sell generously

David Wethey

The procurement function gets a lot of stick.

Organisations that supply services to big client companies (especially agencies) frequently complain

Farewell to a summer love?

Great back into Britain

In many years to come people will be telling stories of the incredible coming together of the nation in the

Wake up and smell the coffee

I picked up a red cup from Starbucks this morning, one of the many signals that the Christmas season is

What coat hangers teach us about business-to-business marketing

By Fiona McAnena, Clearhound

I heard the great Gary Hamel, co-author of Competing for the Future, give a talk on

Inspiring bolder marketing leadership.

That’s the tagline of the Marketing Society. I always thought that was a big claim, but this week’s annual conference

10 best moments from our Annual Conference

Here are Peter Fisks “10 best moments” of our Annual Conference, adding to the 10 great anecdotes which our Editor

Let’s hear it for the ads we love to hate

Fiona McAnena

No sooner has the GoCompare opera singer been silenced than we have the TopCashback man, dressed in the world’s weirdest

ONE SMALL PREDATORY STEP

Dave Trott

At the end of World War Two the entire structure of the world had changed.

Everything previously hinged on the

10 things by Elen Lewis

Number 10 downing street

43% believe Gordon Brown was the worst recent Prime Minister since 1979, David Cameron was the second worst at 17%

Being a Challenger Brand

I’m a really big fan of Adam Morgan. I was happy to be asked to review his last book

Energy Scrooge!

By Crawford Hollingworth, founder of The Behavioural Architects.

British households are struggling more than ever to pay their fuel

"It could be you" - seduction by lotteries

How our seduction by lotteries is being used to nudge and steer our behaviour. 

Has it ever crossed your mind

Americans and Brits: Divided by a common language

By Judie Lannon.

Steve Jobs beats Shakespeare, silence is not golden, and leave irony to Letterman. Should you find yourself

Collegiate? Or competitive? A dilemma for our times

David Wethey

I really should have been in New York City this week. It is the annual Adforum get together, where agencies have