CMO Trends

Contentsquare just raised a $500 million Series E round led by SoftBank. The French Tech Ecosystem Is Booming Wow! This is the biggest venture round ever and the biggest total funding ever for a French startup, now valuated at $2.8 billion. There are now about 15 French unicorns and counting. In a previous blog, I […]

La prochaine vague de transformation des entreprises sera celle du développement durable.

L’engagement collaborateur s’est amélioré entre 2019 et 2020. Nos indicateurs le montrent, ceux des sociétés spécialisées comme Peakon ou Qualtrics le confirment. Les employés, notamment ceux qui ont pu télétravailler, ont bénéficié d’horaires plus flexibles, d’un meilleur contrôle de leur emploi du temps, de moindre temps de transport, et ont globalement été plus productifs. Ce […]

European recovery from the pandemic depends on employee experience; yet, many leaders still underestimate the importance of culturally transforming their organization and embracing a new management approach. The firms that will succeed out of the crisis will be those that prioritize EX and embrace anywhere work.

This week is European Mental Health Week. There are many different facets to mental health, but no doubt our relationship to work is a key component of it, simply because we spend so much time working and because work (or the absence of it) also shapes our very own identities. The pandemic has drastically changed […]

In my recent report, “Embrace The Green Business Opportunity,” I demonstrated how new entrants and innovative brands, especially in Europe, are disrupting the status quo and becoming profitable sustainable businesses. This is not just about the iconic Patagonia, but also about Allbirds, Arcadia Power, Backmarket, BlaBlaCar, C’est qui le Patron?!, Ecotone, Enfuce, Frosch, Imperfect Foods, […]

Although it’s tempting to view the pandemic as a finite period in time and bucket consumer behaviors into “pre-pandemic” and “post-pandemic” states, over two decades of deep global consumer research remind us it's not that simple.

Read an interview with Rich Kroes, Vice President, Global Sustainability at Oracle about the circular cloud and sustainable technology.

Last Friday, my daughter — who will soon turn 15 — participated in her first demonstration, one organized by Fridays for Future. She’s passionate about climate change and biodiversity. I was 12 years old when the Chernobyl disaster occurred, but I was (and still am) passionate about politics. The fall of the Berlin Wall was […]

The separation of media and creative execution 40 years ago sent the advertising industry spiraling. Advertising’s perception has devolved from entertaining to annoying, investment to commodity, channels organized to communication everywhere, and audiences obtainable to users elusive. Savvy marketers are actively seeking solutions to join the lower and upper funnels of marketing as a means […]

Forrester benchmark data shows that retained business accounts for the lion's share of company revenue. How well are you protecting that share?

Open finance is driven not by regulators but by technologies such as open APIs. This is steadily changing distribution patterns within the industry toward embedded finance — a world of connectivity, with financial services meeting the needs of customers in the moment, in cars, in virtual agents, in shopping apps, and in online marketplaces. If […]

Your Marketing Content Doesn’t Cater To New B2B Buyers The age of the customer has shifted buying power to your customers and fundamentally changed B2B buying behavior.[1] Your once rational, loyal B2B customer has been replaced by a less loyal, more emotional decision-maker, who prefers to remain anonymous and self-directs much of their purchase journey […]

When technology and human ingenuity combine the result is Intelligent Creativity, a process that will redefine the how, who, and what of today's marketing.

The crises of 2020 turbocharged consumers’ technology adoption and usage. Yet in 2021, consumers are struggling to make sense of their need for technology and their hesitation to rely on it.

As organizations prepare for 2021 and beyond, they need to focus on what matters most, which includes examining market trends and understanding buyer needs. Here are the five key actions portfolio marketers must take.

Discover what this year's all-virtual event revealed about the future of brand experiences.

While consumer conversations about the climate have ebbed and flowed for decades, 2020 marked a turning point that sparked unprecedented urgency around the climate crisis. Learn how this will impact consumer trends in 2021.