It’s like trying to find hay in a haystack. To find a CEO or a Marketing Director enthusing about a consumer-centric strategy here, an empathy directive there, a desire to put the consumer at the heart of everything, everywhere. “A strategic priority for management is consumer-centric growth” Dirk Van de Put. CEO, Mondelez So common …

Every time I hear someone use the term “AI” I usually cringe. You say tomaytoes, I say tomahtoes. They say Potaytoes, I say a pair of King Edwards to that. AI is NOT all the same thing. Many people use the term to cover wildly different things – from Siris to C3POs to HAL9000s – …

Members of our Chicago team spent two days at IIeX Behavior, an industry conference for researchers and marketers alike. The conference sets out to help attendees better understand, measure, and predict consumer behavior through behavioral science techniques and technologies. It wasn’t all green smoothies, virtual reality and semiotics – so what were three big themes …

Fake news may be damaging democracy – but plenty of false opinions are damaging your business growth too. The fact is, it’s not just the public who are struggling to identify what’s true and what isn’t. We were noticing that our clients and contacts are constantly being bombarded with messages both internally and externally and …

How many products can you name that contain palm oil? Peanut butter, yes. Nutella, definitely. But what about shampoo, bread and ice cream? Or lipstick, soap and chocolate? We certainly couldn’t name any outside of the spreads. And yet, in our recent study into veganism, many respondents pinpointed palm oil as an emerging foe. Were …

When Tas (Anthony Tasgal) presented at our Power of Storytelling event in March, he made the case that we live in a DRIP world.  One where we can feel overwhelmed with the sheer amount of data that is available to us, and the issues we then face in distilling it all into something that feels meaningful …