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Why have mobile operators failed to innovate for so long?

Lara O'Reilly

I breathed a sigh of relief when Matthew Key, CEO of Telefónica’s new Digital division admitted that mobile operators’ failure to innovate has seen them becoming “commoditised” and – perhaps mostly tellingly – “irrelevant”. Speaking at the Wired 2011 event in London, Key said the entire “ecosystem” for mobile has changed, with the catalyst for […]

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Marketing is not an engineering discipline

Seb Joseph

IBM’s global CMO report highlights the growing need for data amid a stuttering economy; with 72% of CMOs worldwide saying budgets are a concern. But when advertising decisions are based on numbers, is the need to be creative lost? IBM’s global study of 1,700 CMOs reports that more than two thirds of chief marketing officers […]