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Key Leadership Qualities During A Transformational Period
It’s been an eventful year so far at Act-On. We’ve hired a ton of people, experienced exciting transitions, felt growing pains, and seen the benefit of dedicated teamwork as our strategies come to life and take shape with tangible progress.…
How Bill Gates Makes And Spends His Billions
Bill Gates is currently the world's second richest person with a net worth of over $93 billion. In 1975, childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft and went on to create the operating system for IBM's first personal…
5 Ways to Making Better Data Driven Decisions
Political, social and technological disruptions are set to shake up the business world more than ever over the next 12 months, putting increased pressure on the decision-making capabilities of the CEO.
5 Quick and Simple Ways to Increase B2B Leads Via Twitter
While social media platforms form an integral element of many marketing and sales strategies, Twitter is sometimes considered to be the poor relation.
10 Tech Trends to Watch Out for in 2019
Another year, another attempt to fathom the depths of tech trends and WTF they mean for business transformation in 2019. We’re all thinking AI and ML and AR, but then what happened to the good ol’ fashioned three-letter-acronym? SAS? CMS?…
India Wants to Buy. Are You Ready to Sell?
Are you in India yet? If you aren’t, you should be. India’s e-commerce growth is astonishing.
Divestment as a Strategy for Organisational Growth
Business growth comes in many different forms. When we think of growth, we most logically think of adding things on – building a business through organic growth, acquisition or merger. But in fact, divestment is also a legitimate, in many…
How Open Data can Address World Hunger
Why the Agricultural Sector Needs to be at the Centre of Governmental Plans as we Move Swiftly Towards a Digital Economy
Today, approximately 795 million people across the globe do not have access to enough food to live a healthy and…
Hermes UK: The Best Technology, Culture and Strategy to Lead
Martijn de Lange is the CEO of Hermes, the second largest carrier in the UK delivering more than 330 million parcels on behalf of 80% of the UK’s top retailers, including Next, ASOS, John Lewis, Arcadia Group and boohoo. Martijn was born in…
Understanding the Current Flux in the Influencer Economy
Over the last few years, we’ve witnessed a growing undermining of experience, knowledge and established expertise across the board - from politics to pop culture. In turn, ‘influence’ has become democratised by a proliferation of tech and…