Outsell’s Leadership Council
Outsell community meetings take place in person three time a year and monthly via video. Here’s what’s been bubbling to the top during our…
Eight Nominees for Outsell’s Growth Tank
This year, Outsell’s Signature Event will take you on a journey, one where we learn how others are Driving Growth in the Data Economy…
It’s the Economy
The economy has always driven growth in data, analytics, and information solutions. Driving Growth in the Data Economy, the theme of…
When the Algorithm Fails
Vignettes that tell tales of companies pushing their technologies forward, ignoring regulation, conventional wisdom, and societal norms…
Outsell’s Annual Industry Outlook
What if you had a crystal ball that let you see into the future? What if we told you that’s what Outsell offers? Since 1998, we’ve been…
In Every Challenge, an Opportunity
We’ve been planning for Outsell’s 11th Signature Event at full throttle. Co-produced with JEGI, we are tickled pink about how the program…
More Bad Marketing and Salesforce — Say It Isn’t So
This week’s stupid marketing has us focusing on emails from a residential solar services and equipment leases company, as well as a…
Outsell 250 — Now Outsell Top 30
The countdown continues to Outsell’s Signature Event and our Emerging Company Growth Tank. It all leads to a list of companies that…
Ask Anthea | M&A and Pregnancy
What do M&A and Pregnancy have to do with one another? Well, over a meal last week, a professional in her early 40s told me she felt caught…
Food Pyramid or Data Pyramid?
The role of data and analytics varies from supporting cast to center of attention — across market segments and business models. Outsell…
Got Sales Performance?
Launching Outsell’s Sales Performance Benchmark Study
A View from the Top
Jim Smith, President & CEO of Thomson Reuters, Keynotes Outsell’s Signature Event
Welcome to Outsell’s 250
Congratulations to this year’s Outsell 250. It’s a great list of young, emerging companies, each of which is now nominated for Outsell’s 30…
Ask Anthea: Small Fish and Orcas
I am currently with a small research and consulting firm. We are not a start-up, in fact have been around for more than 30 years in the…
Driving Growth in the Data Economy
This year we launched Outsell’s DataMoney. Focused on monetizing data and the business of data, it was an event where folks could focus on…
The Billionaire Boys Club
Go away for a few weeks, leave a few blog posts behind, and come back to fodder that changes the world. I remember a few years back…
Is Your Data Ready?
Through meeting with amazing companies doing amazing things, we see where the industry is headed and the level of innovation going on in…
What Buyers Have to Say
A recent exchange with information buyers lent some great insight about the don’ts of customer service in our industry. We know the names…
Where are the women?
Where are the women? Diversity Schimersity. We keep hearing about diversity, inclusion, and the need for greater representation in corporations, our industry’s leadership, by far, is not putting its money where its mouth is. I hear day in and day…
Great post, very insightful.
Great post, very insightful. I wrote a post about March Madness really becoming AI Madness. After an AI solution beat the world’s best players at Texas Hold’em. We’ve now fallen to the machines in the last bastion of intellectual sport — poker.…
Bula! Wish You Were Here…
Bula, a Fijian noun that means life and is used as a “warm hello,” is my greeting for this post. You see, I’ve just returned from 15 days…
The Plaque & Privacy
The words etched onto the plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty read: “Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to…
RegTech Joins the “_______” Tech Phenomenon
Recently, Outsell VP and Lead Analyst Will Jan wrote about RegTech and the rise of AI and regulations combining to create a perfect storm…
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