Thought Leadership is clearly a different type of growth business strategy for corporations. Our consultancy creates a Thought Leadership programme which is at the core of the marketing strategy and make reinvention regular part of your bussiness..Our Senior Management team has been at the forefront of developing global Thought Leadership plans for both governments and corporates for the last 25 years. It is this expertise in content marketing, we offer our clients.
To coin a phrase I often heard walking the streets of London but not so often these days – “got any spare change?”. And why is that? There exists some of the worst poverty in the country in London so I’m sure the beggars have not gone away. Is it Read more…
It’s easy for new FinTech to get carried away with how clever they are in the innovations which their platforms provide. They are focused on the newest technology that they intend to use, or on the clever financial innovation that they have created. Certainly, these things are important, and key Read more…
Through the delivery of our consulting services, a number of us at DVC Consultants have had real time exposure to terrorism. While in Northern Nigeria consulting for HMG, one of our directors had to take evasive action from Boko Haram road blocks. On another occasion, while consulting for a private Read more…
Many years ago in the early days of the .com era, I was lucky enough to work on a project that incubated technology startups, with each one of these startups grouped together to form a micro-cooperative. These businesses we called ‘gorillas’, perhaps they were the v0.1 disrupters. After a tour around Read more…
Banktotal is focussed on providing financial services to the unbanked and underbanked in Africa and the Asia-Pacific Countries of Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh. A quarter of the worlds Muslims live in Africa, with another 300 million in Indonesia, 197 million in Pakistan and 167 million in Bangladesh. This represents around Read more…
Banktotal is committed to providing Shari’ah -compliant products for the underbanked and unbanked in Africa and the Asia-Pacific Region. Their disruptive technologies will make these available, sometimes for the first time to Islamic communities. There has been a remarkable 11% growth in global Islamic banking assets over the last 5 Read more…
I am often asked as the founder of a consultancy (www.dvcconsultants.com) who is focussed on creating disruptor and challenger brands, what are the core principles and building blocks for doing this? What’s the secret to the alchemy and what is the formula for success? So, for what it’s worth here Read more…
“I bless the rains down in Africa Gonna take some time to do the things we never had” TOTO There are over two billion people in the world who still do not have a bank account. Most of them live in the emerging markets (Africa and the Asian Pacific Region Read more…
Twenty Years ago, when I was CEO of the WPP owned Addison Corporate Marketing, I published some research which looked at the future of corporate behaviour. Our clients included Novartis, SmithKline Beecham, BT and Nat West and we were at the forefront of digital technology (creating some of the first Read more…
Business growth can be enabled in many ways, yet most corporations still focus on the more traditional forms– whether sales, new products, new markets, new brands, mergers and acquisitions, etc. What many corporations don’t seem to value and/or understand is the power of knowledge sharing. We are constantly being challenged Read more…
