by Tim Hayden | Apr 2, 2018 | Business News, Strategy
A controversial memo written by Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth memo – admittedly written to provoke a response – revealed the extent to which Facebook’s leadership understood the social risks inherent in the platform. “We connect people. Period. That’s why...
by Tim Hayden | Mar 7, 2018 | AI (artificial intelligence), Customer Experience, Innovation, Strategy
In a previous post my colleague Scott Monty shared a word on The Silent Brand Killer, a brief note on the very real threat of brand dilution and competition that Amazon represents to just about any consumer-facing business. Today, we take a look at one of the...
by Tim Hayden | Mar 2, 2018 | Customer Experience, Innovation, Leadership, Strategy
(Photo credit: Jason Thibault via Flickr Creative Commons) One of the most overused terms in entrepreneurship is “pivot.” You’ve undoubtedly seen it used by various startups, and it seems like they’re trying to fix a broken business. Or it may...
by Tim Hayden | Nov 29, 2017 | Customer Experience, Leadership, Strategy
This fall, we are celebrating the one-year mark of Brain+Trust Partners being open for operations. It has been a kinetic launch, and we will forever have a “startup” attitude, leaning into a journey that each day has seemingly only just begun. After all, the rate of...
by Administrator | Nov 21, 2017 | Leadership, Strategy
(Photo credit: Simeon Berg via Flickr Creative Commons) In my last post, I talked about the many changes we’ve seen in the last year or so, along with the challenges that executives face as digital business transformation looms large. When I hop in my modified 1985...
by Administrator | Oct 30, 2017 | Leadership, Strategy
I’ve been in the “real world” in business for about two decades, and I’ve been “doing digital” for almost 14 years — about two-thirds of my career. For 19 of those years, I was a corporate animal, working either directly for or as agency support of some of the world’s...
