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Emotional plurality — occupying multiple emotional states simultaneously due to an ever-changing and increasingly complicated world — is one of the more prevalent feelings many consumers are dealing with today. As a result, brands will need to do what they can to improve their mechanisms for more precise emotional understanding and embed it more deeply [...]

For those who have been weathering the rampant pace of transformation these last few years, the emergence of the CIO as a leading player in bringing empathic experiences to scale should come as no surprise. As the push to use data to pivot from transactional relationships to service-oriented ones ensues, a human-led design approach is [...]

The topic of digital transformation has been top of mind throughout the pandemic, with the pace of it taking place at speeds never before seen. Some may think that wave is behind us, yet the reality is that transformation will only continue to accelerate in the years ahead. This is due to an increasing shift [...]

More than ever before, as marketing continues to be at the forefront of digital transformation, the function must work aggressively to pivot from being a cost center to a true driver of growth. To do this, many critical organizational shifts need to take place ranging from cultural changes, to insights infrastructure build outs that drive [...]

The topic of consumer data privacy is quickly reaching a tipping point. With companies like Google and Apple putting more stringent rules around data privacy, the bar has been raised on providing superior customer experiences that don’t cross the line from being welcomingly intimate, to creepily invasive. With the demise of third party data, brands [...]

One thing has become clear amidst the pandemic and that is that digital adoption rates have skyrocketed and DTC has become the new norm. The need for brands to continually innovate to bring consumers value in different ways, each and every day, only continues to escalate. In order to be successful, consistent online and offline [...]

More than ever before, marketing needs to aggressively move from being seen as a function or cost center, to a true enabler of unique customer understanding that can be directly correlated to growth. The path to doing this is riddled with challenges, particularly for those who have been weathering the rampant pace of transformation these […]