Online media habits are changing, diverging

To start 2015 I’ll focus on online media for a while to enable both managers and Boards to better understand how-mid-decade- advertising is changing.

This change is led by technology- both hardware and software- and both brand owners and agencies are struggling to keep up. And while there are a few brands and agencies surfing the wave of new media habits, the vast majority of us languish in traditional-media unaware of how fast things are changing.… Read more

The undervalued virtue of consistency

As managers we often value change more than continuity. Brand managers get promoting for changing packaging or advertising, business development managers succeed when they change the strategy. We all have stories of success following change.
Consistency is a strongly undervalued virtue in business.
We get easily bored with the things that we have done in the past, and seek the new, to change, certainly well before our customers actively seek changes.
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5 Killer Questions for Non-Marketers to ask

In moving from commercially focused businesses into the wider world, the question i am asked most often is : how can i improve my branding and marketing. This a killer question. Without getting into an in-depth review of the questioners specific challenges, i go back to first principles and ask them to think about asking similar killer questions to ask their marketing teams.… Read more

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With over 60 years of joint experience in major multinational organisations implementing business plans  and experience of working on transformational projects with and without the assistance of external consultants, the partners of acumen.sg can tailor solutions to the challenges your business faces rather than apply internal models.… Read more