NPD + IRI = Circana
My colleague Randy Giusto and I often go round and round about branding and rebranding in this industry. I’ve written past posts about dos…
Zeros and Os
I’ve been thinking a lot about the ironies of machines versus people and how they work together or don’t. We’ve got chatbots providing…
Dark Money
What a shame yesterday to learn that one of my favorite leaders lost his job in a tussle with his PE owners during his “second bite at the…
Announcing Outsell’s Emerging 50 of 2023
Every year, we cover new companies with exciting solutions that are driving innovation in our industry. We call them the Outsell Emerging…
Breaking Glass
Celebrating Ann McLaughlin Korologos, 1941–2023
ChatGPT Out to Lunch
So it’s 6 am and I have a blog post to write. I figure I’ll start with ChatGPT since it’s all I’m hearing about and I need a break from bad…
Fixing Customer Data
It boggles my mind that so many enterprises don’t have their data and technology act together. After all, for more than two decades we’ve…
Wall Street Journal Nightmare
The nightmare went something like this:
Flexibility in Our Own Words
Ah, more hand-wringing and agita over return-to-office mandates and remote work wars. From Bob Iger at Disney to Vanguard and Paycom…
Place Your Bets
I have never traveled for Christmas. Never in my life. Neither have I ever traveled for Thanksgiving. So, the notion of planes or trains or…