I remember a training session early in my career when my boss laid out the path ahead with genuine enthusiasm. First, we would become marketing ninjas – precise, skilled, lethal in our own lane. Then, once we had mastered that, we would expand – taking on more disciplines, more responsibilities, more plates to spin. Finally, […]
Category Archives: Digital Training
September
23
Teach Digital Marketing Like It’s 2030, Not 2010
posted by Mike O'Brien
If AI can draft essays, summarise case studies, analyse data, and even generate campaign plans – why are we still teaching digital marketing at all? Why not just hand students the tools and let the machine do the work? The answer is simple: teaching in the Age of AI is not about replacing the human […]
July
12
The quantum marketing skills challenge.
posted by Mike O'Brien
Most of the marketing tasks that once took highly-skilled teams weeks to accomplished can now be actioned in minutes by an individual with a smartphone. Even the most complex programmatic campaigns are triggered, delivered and dynamically optimised in milliseconds. But speed isn’t everything. While marketers make every effort to optimise business and human productivity, […]
April
16
Get agile or get left behind
posted by Mike O'Brien
On February 11-13, 2001, at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort in the Wasatch mountains of Utah, seventeen software developers got together to, as they put it: “Talk, ski, relax, and try to find common ground.” What they produced and signed up to was The Agile Manifesto: a 12-point commitment to optimising the development of software […]
February
03
The RISE of the micro marketing machine
posted by Mike O'Brien
The past makes me confused about the future of marketing The Bellwether report for January 2015, found that the “fragile nature of the economy has knocked the confidence of marketers and forced many to adopt “cost-efficient” online strategies to reign in their advertising spend.” It then went on to state that, “Despite the slowdown in advertising spend in […]
December
21
Zen and the art of motivation maintenance
posted by Mike O'Brien
Your feet are up but the mind is still at work. If like me you are looking forward to the Christmas Break but have been insanely busy and a have a head so full of ideas about the next evolution in digital marketing that you have no idea how we got here, this is my Christmas present for you. […]
December
16
Customer-Centricity – are you listening Tesco?
posted by Mike O'Brien
Time to get back to basics. Phase 1: Get management off their arses. Welcome to the world of Dangerous Dave Lewis, the new CEO of Tesco. A boss who must put the wind up managers by making them get back to the shop floor on a regular basis. Change Management in the real world is much […]
