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SUMMARY:How to Build a Billion Dollar App
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nStart date  : 9 June 2015\nStart time  : 07:00 pm\nEnd time  : 09:00 pm\nLocation  :  ESCP Business School London Campus \n  \nESCP Business School‘s Creativity Marketing Centre presented a stimulating talk on ‘How to Build a Billion Dollar App’ with invited guest George Berkowski\, Founder & CEO of IceCream\, Author of ‘How to Build a Billion Dollar App’\, and graduate of the Specialised Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship\, 2002. \nThe event took place at ESCP’s London Campus on Tuesday\, 9 June at 7.00pm. The talk was followed by a cocktail reception. Attendees had the opportunity to meet the speaker\, faculty members\, and network with Executive MBA participants and other like-minded people. \nOur Speaker\nIn his own words: “I am a seasoned entrepreneur with a number of exits\, and a passion for product development with a strong focus on mobile. A huge fan of data-driven strategy and a love for analytics\, I love building amazing teams and products.” \nGeorge has recently published his book How to Build a Billion Dollar App http://mybilliondollarapp.com and is currently developing an app named IceCream\, a “camera app that never runs out of space”. https://givemeicecream.com. \n  \n 
URL:https://creativitymarketing.org/event/how-to-build-a-billion-dollar-app/
LOCATION:ESCP Business School’s London Campus\, 527 Finchley Road\, London\, NW3 7BG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Secret of Building Brands in a Developing Market
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nStart date  : 24 April 2015\nStart time  : 06:30 pm\nEnd time  : 09:00 pm\nLocation  :  ESCP Business School London Campus \nThe Creativity Marketing Centre at ESCP Business School presented a talk on ‘The Secret of Building Brands in a Developing Market’. \nOur distinguished speaker was Feyi Olubodun\, General Manager and Chief Operating Officer of Insight\, Nigeria’s largest communications agency and recently voted one of the 100 Best Places to work in Nigeria. \nThe event took place on Friday\, 24th April at 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start. The talk was followed by a cocktail reception\, allowing guests the opportunity to meet the speaker and network with other like-minded people. \nFeyi is an inspiring speaker who has visited ESCP Business School before and we can predict an engaging and lively session. He will talk about the influence of various factors such as local culture\, and differences in consumer segmentation as the key to successful new market launches by global brands\, illustrated with examples from his career. He has worked with major brands across the key sectors of the Nigeria economy such as Telecomms\, Food and Beverages\, Beer\, Spirits and Wines\, Airlines\, e-Commerce\, Financial Services and Public Sector branding. Feyi’s experience spans several years with TNS-RMS and Insight in roles such as market research\, data analysis\, new product development\, advertising account planning and business strategy. He is a 2015 Global EMBA candidate of the Duke University Fuqua School of Business. \n 
URL:https://creativitymarketing.org/event/the-secret-of-building-brands-in-a-developing-market/
LOCATION:ESCP Business School’s London Campus\, 527 Finchley Road\, London\, NW3 7BG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Management Consultancy Market Update with the Chartered Management Institute
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nStart date  : 16 April 2015\nStart time  : 06:00 pm\nEnd time  : 09:00 pm\nLocation  :  ESCP Business School London Campus \nESCP Business School and the Creativity Marketing Centre (CMC) were delighted to host an event for the Chartered Management Institute (CMI)\, featuring our own professor Dr Davide Sola and guest speaker Richard Stewart\, founder of Mindbench on 16 April 2015 at our London Campus  \nDr Sola opened the event with a welcome speech. \nRichard Stewart discussed the following topics: \n– Trends in the management consultancy market place – which sectors and functional areas are hiring? \n– Opportunities in the UK and internationally for management consultants \n– What are management consultancies looking for in candidates? \n– The application process for management consultancy firms\, and how to improve your chances of success \n– Q&A on management consultancy market place and careers in management consultancy \n\nOur Speakers\nDavide Sola is professor of Strategy and Management at ESCP Business School and visiting faculty at Business Schools in Finland\, India and Italy. He is also Principal at 3H Partners\, who work with multinational organisations and governments in Europe\, US and Africa. \nRichard Stewart is an entrepreneur with a background in international management consultancy services and financial services. Richard is regularly quoted by the leading consulting press including Management Consulting International and Consulting-News.  Richard is also the founder of Mindbench\, an award winning and values driven\, specialist recruitment firm that was awarded runner up in the 2010 and 2009 Top-Consultant Best Recruitment Firm survey. \nWe would like to thank alumnus Michele Cuccovillo for bringing us this fascinating event. \n  \n \n 
URL:https://creativitymarketing.org/event/management-consultancy-market-update-with-the-chartered-management-institute/
LOCATION:ESCP Business School’s London Campus\, 527 Finchley Road\, London\, NW3 7BG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Facebook Company Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nStart date  : 27 March 2015\nStart time  : 06:30 pm\nEnd time  : 08:30 pm\nLocation  :  Facebook EMEA HQ \nThe Creativity Marketing Centre at ESCP Business School was delighted to announce that Facebook was hosting a selected group of30-35 students on Friday 27 March\, 2015 at their EMEA HQ in Dublin. \nThe visit included a company presentation\, a chance to network with alumni now working at Facebook\, and the opportunity to find out more about the full-time roles available at Facebook across EMEA. \nThis event was only open to current students at ESCP Business School’s London campus. \nAbout Facebook\nFounded in 2004\, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family\, to discover what’s going on in the world\, and to share and express what mattersto them. \n 
URL:https://creativitymarketing.org/event/facebook-company-presentation/
LOCATION:Facebook EMEA HQ
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SUMMARY:Creativity & Start-ups
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nStart date  : 30 January 2015\nStart time  : 06:30 pm\nEnd time  : 08:30 pm\nLocation  :  ESCP Business School London Campus \nOverview\n‘Creativity & Start-ups’\nA panel discussion\, followed by networking drinks \nWith special Guest Speakers:\nHolli Rogers\, Former Fashion Director\, Net-a-Porter\nEmeline Wraith\, Founder at Remote Goat and The Nawty Step \nESCP Business School and its Creativity Marketing Centre were delighted to host a stimulating panel discussion with two distinguished marketing entrepreneurs. Our guest speakers shared their career stories\, as well as the power of creativity and intuition in starting up businesses. \nOur Speakers\nHolli ​Rogers ​began ​her ​career ​in ​the ​buying ​office ​at ​Neiman ​Marcus ​before ​rising ​to ​be ​Fashion ​Director ​of ​Net-a-Porter\, ​where ​she ​introduced ​many ​new ​designers\, ​categories ​and ​markets. ​ ​When ​she ​left ​last ​year\, ​Net-a-Porter’s ​founder ​Natalie ​Massanet ​commented: ​”Over ​the ​years\, ​her ​fashionable ​’eye’ ​has ​established ​us ​as ​the ​most ​fashionable ​place ​in ​the ​world ​to ​shop.” ​​The ​world ​awaits ​Holli’s ​next ​step ​with ​keen ​anticipation! \nEmeline ​Wraith ​accidentally ​fell ​into ​the ​world ​of ​start-ups ​by ​winning ​an ​in-house ​’Dragon’s ​Den’ ​competition. Nowadays ​she ​is ​the ​self-styled ​”Chief ​Herder” ​at ​brand ​acceleration ​agency ​Remote ​Goat\, ​helping ​to ​develop ​the ​brands of ​tomorrow. ​​She ​is ​also ​an ​expert ​on ​the ​burgeoning night-life ​economy ​and ​founder ​of ​The ​Nawty ​Step\, ​a ​go-to ​design ​agency ​for ​the ​dance ​music ​industry. ​
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SUMMARY:How to Manage Creative Talent
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nStart date  : 14 November 2014\nStart time  : 06:30 pm\nEnd time  : 08:30 pm\nLocation  :  ESCP Business School London Campus \nESCP Business School and the Creativity Marketing Centre (CMC) hosted a stimulating talk on ‘How to Manage Creative Talent’ with special guest speaker Thomas Bucaille\, Director of Talent\, Condé Nast International. \nThe evening provided the opportunity to network with participants of our new Executive Master in Marketing and Creativity\, as well as the Creativity Marketing Research Centre\, campus staff and fellow alumni. \nThe event took take place at ESCP’s London Campus on 14th November at 18.30 pm and was followed by a cocktail reception. \nOur Speaker\n \nThomas graduated from ESCP Business School with a Specialised Master in Media Management in 1988\, following his Masters Degree at Ecole Normale Superieure. His career has taken him from the world of management consultancy at Bain to human resources at L’Oreal and Christian Dior. His present role at Condé Nast International was newly-created in 2012 and covers Condé Nast’s global operation\, including all its publications in all countries. \n 
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SUMMARY:The Challenges of Marketing Alcoholic Drinks with Eric Benoist\, International Marketing Director\, Chivas Brothers
DESCRIPTION:Launch of the Executive Master in Marketing & Creativity\nStart date  : 23 September 2014\nStart time  : 06:00 pm\nEnd time  : 08:30 pm\nLocation  :  ESCP Business School London Campus \n  \nESCP  Business School launched the new Executive Master in Marketing and Creativity (EMMK).  \nTo commemorate the arrival of our inaugural participants\, we invited Exec Master participants and Alumni members to an exclusive evening event at our London campus on 23rd September. The Keynote speech was delivered by Eric Benoist\, International Marketing Director\, Chivas Brothers\, and addressed the challenges of marketing in the alcoholic drinks segment. \nThe event was followed by a cocktail reception. \nAbout the Executive Master in Marketing and Creativity\nThis innovative part-time programme is designed for current marketing professionals wishing to stay ahead of the curve\, as well as those planning to enter the sector and facing the challenge of getting up to pace. \nThe EMMK offers all the elements of a high-level Executive Master in Marketing\, combined with our innovative\, creativity-focused approach. It combines a series of key modules with group work and Creative Industry Seminars involving corporate partner organisations. \nThe programme is delivered in English by ESCP Business School’s highly-experienced faculty and leading industry practitioners in three diverse locations: London\, Paris and Torino. \nOur Speaker\nEric Benoist took up his role as International Marketing Director of Chivas Brothers in February 2009\, having previously been the Marketing Director at Pernod Ricard subsidiary Martell Mumm Perrier-Jouët in France. \nEric is a graduate from ESCP (Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris)\, joining Pernod Ricard in 1993 as Marketing Manager of Non Alcoholic Drinks\, after having worked in various marketing roles in FMCG companies such as Bahlsen and Henkel. \nIn 1997 Eric was appointed Marketing Director of Pernod Ricard Asia and in 2000 became Managing Director of Pernod Ricard Japan. He then moved to France in 2003 taking up the position of Marketing Director at Martell Cognac. From 2005 to early 2009\, Eric was the Marketing Director for Martell Mumm Perrier-Jouët. \nEric is married and has three children.
URL:https://creativitymarketing.org/event/the-challenges-of-marketing-alcoholic-drinks-with-eric-benoist-international-marketing-director-chivas-brothers/
LOCATION:ESCP Business School’s London Campus\, 527 Finchley Road\, London\, NW3 7BG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Big Data and Marketing: From Analytics to Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nHow can a creative approach to big data dramatically improve marketers’ understanding of their customers and markets for better results? \nThe unfathomable amounts of highly sophisticated data produced by consumers and accessible to marketers are increasingly difficult to fully comprehend and exploit. Creativity is key. Marketers must ask creative questions and imagine creative uses to extract the full value of big data. \nWe brought together experts from the analytics and marketing fields to help identify key opportunities\, challenges and best practices\, and to formulate creative approaches to exploit the full\, untapped potential of big data in marketing. Confirmed Speakers included leading players in data warehousing and business intelligence\, online retailing\, pharmaceuticals\, financial services\, marketing analytics\, consumer segmentation and profiling and more. \n\nChairperson:\nMarie Taillard\, MBA\, PhD\nAssociate Professor of Marketing\, ESCP Business School.\nDirector\, Creativity Marketing Centre @ ESCP Business School. \nKeynote Speaker:\nEdouard Servan-Schreiber\, PhD\nDirector\, Solution Architecture\, 10Gen \n\nConference Programme\n\n\n\n\nTIME\nACTIVITY /SPEAKERS\n\n\n09:30 – 10:00\nWelcome tea & biscuits\n\n\n10:00 – 10:10\nChairwoman’s opening remarks: Marie Taillard\n\n\n10:10 – 10:40\nKeynote: Edouard Servan-Schreiber\, Director for Solutions Architecture\,10Gen\n\n\n10:40 – 10:55\nPeterAbraham\, Executive Vice President\, Econsultancy\n\n\n10:55 – 11:10\nMax Jolly\,Global Head of Digital\, dunnhumby\n\n\n11:10 – 11:25\nMark Boyt\, Director of Solutions\, Xerox Europe\n\n\n11:25 – 11:55\nRefreshments\n\n\n11:55 – 12:15\nPanel 1:How to be creative at getting value from big data (practice sharing)? \nPeter Abraham\, Max Jolly\, Mark Boyt\, Ben Voyer\n\n\n12:15 – 12:30\nJudy Bayer\, Director of Strategic Analytics EMEA\, Teradata\n\n\n12:30 – 12:45\nNick Moodie\, Business Analyst\, eBay\n\n\n12:45 – 13:00\nJerome Couturier\, President\, 3H Partners; Associate Professor\, ESCP Business School\n\n\n13.00 – 13:20\nPanel 2: Building great creative analyticalteams: \nJudy Bayer\, Nick Moodie\, Jerome Couturier\, Luc Osborne\n\n\n13:20 – 14:20\nLuncheon / Buffet\n\n\n14.20 – 14:35\nNicolas de Cordes\, VP Marketing Vision\, Orange FT Group\n\n\n14:35 – 14:50\nDuncan Ross\, Director of Data Science\, Teradata\n\n\n14:50 – 15:10\nPanel 3: Ethical and privacy issues around creative uses of Big Data: \nTom van Laer\, Nicolas de Cordes\, Peter Stephenson-Wright\, Duncan Ross\, Anthony Rimmer\n\n\n15:10 – 15:25\nSabine McNeill\, Founder\, 3D Metrics UK\, Duncan Ross\n\n\n15:25 – 15:40\nDarren Oddie\, MD\, Agile Customer Insights\n\n\n15 :40 – 16 :00\nRefreshments\n\n\n16 :00 – 16:15\nLaure Reillier\, Head of Seller Propositions\, Europe\, eBay\n\n\n16:15 – 16:30\nMax Ciferri\, Partner\, 3H Partners\n\n\n16:30 – 16:50\nPanel 4: Using creativity to avoid”analysis paralysis” in marketing and sales: \nSabine McNeill\, Laure Reillier\, Max Ciferri\, Darren Oddie\n\n\n16:50 – 17:00\nChairwoman’s concluding remarks\n\n\n17:00 – 18:00\nWine & Cheese reception and networking\n\n\n\n  \nSpeaker Presentation Synopses\nIntroduction\nMarie Taillard\, Director Creativity Marketing Centre\, ESCP Business School\, UK \nMarie Taillard welcomed guests and participants to ESCP Business School and provided a short introduction to ESCP Business School\, the School’s London Campus and the Creativity Marketing Centre.  Against a context of commoditized markets\, consumer scepticism and uncertainty\, marketing departments seem to be losing their influence within their companies and need to rethink marketing in a more creative way – they must achieve a better balance between creativity and rigorous analysis\, be more audacious yet more data-driven\, build on constraints and contradictions\, and above all\, they must abandon “reproductive” thinking and stop following each other into the same formulaic strategies and programmes. The School addresses these goals in its Master in Marketing and Creativity\, now recruiting for its fourth annual intake. \nThe new Creativity Marketing Centre @ ESCP Business School is being launched to create a community of Creativity Marketers in order to build a platform for knowledge and practice exchange\, thought- leadership and theory development. It seeks to do so by combining academic research objectives and corporate practices and challenges. Today’s inaugural event shows the way forward for this new approach.  \nKeynote Speakers\nEdouard Servan-Schreibber\, 10Gen\nComparing the emergence of Big Data to the discovery of paper in the Tang Dynasty\, Keynote Speaker Edouard Servan-Schreiber encouraged the audience to consider the great potential for creativity unleashed by Big Data. Because Big Data is pervasive; easy to capture\, store and transmit; cheap; scalable and deployable\, it constitutes a fertile ground for creative ideas.  To this end\, organisations should nurture a culture that encourages the launch of new data-based initiatives by making data easy for all to access and exploit.  They should facilitate the deployment and scaling of these efforts\, while accepting eventual failures and turning them into learning opportunities. \n  \nPeter Abraham\, Econsultancy\nPeter Abraham\, Executive Vice President at London-based Econsultancy argued that creative approaches to Big Data revolve around change\, complexity and capability.   Change brought about in part by the explosion of customer touchpoints has challenged the traditional “Big Data experts” and made relevant data available directly to marketers\, agencies and e-commerce vendors.  The complexity of the available data demands a customer-centric analysis across touchpoints and a clear sense of what to measure\, when and how in order to yield “soft” data that translates into actionable insights.  Only by developing the required analytical skills will marketers be able to meet the challenge of knowing how to extract value out of Big Data and act on it – their creativity depends on the development of analytical skills and mindsets. \n  \nMax Jolly\, dunhumby\nRetail data expert\, Max Jolly took the audience through a demonstration of how observed behaviours (purchases) can be turned into insights thanks to creative uses of Big Data\, and can in turn provide the basis to offer greater relevance and value to customers over the course of their relationship with a retailer.  Beyond the loyalty objective\, retailers are now also focusing on the advocacy objective – gaining quality insights and advocacy opportunities via social media.  Comparative results from a US-based retail client showed significant performance improvement associated with the use of social media data alongside other behavioural data. \n  \nMark Boyt\, Xerox\nPrint is not dead! In his insightful presentation\, Mark Boyt discussed how Big Data could be used to generate personalised printed content and interact with customers. While marketers store an increasing amount of data about customers\, most mailing campaigns still rely on sending standardised brochures and documents. Mark Boyt introduced the XMPie platform\, by Xerox\, which acts as a smart interface to personalise mailing based on customer information.  Overall\, Mark Boyt believes Big Data can be creatively used to start a dialogue with customers and to better connect with them. With customers being surrounded by marketing messages and information\, a smarter use of the data can result in an improved efficiency of marketing messages. A smarter use of the information also means using modern technologies to interact with customers in new ways (e.g. augmented reality). \n  \nJudy Bayer\, Teradata\nJudy Bayer\, Director of Strategic Analytics at Teradata Europe\, delivered a very inspiring presentation on the creative side of analytics. Her approach is based on adopting an intimate customer-centric view\, often bringing vivid pictures of customers to mind in her quest to better understand their behaviours and their underlying features.  She demonstrated the example of building the profile\, lifestyle and habits of an everyday customer\, by using their retail footprints and mobile phone bills. She illustrated how looking at analytics through creativity\, one can build a full customer’s profile and derive remarkable insights. \n\nLaure Reiller\, eBay\nNick Moodie\, eBay\nLaure Reillier\, Head of Seller Propositions and Nick Moodie\, Business Analyst at eBay presented the unique and highly effective perspective of how the marketer’s (Laure Reillier) and the analyst’s (Nick Moodie) concerted approach to Big Data within the same business unit can result in productive change and increased performance. Their case study illustrated a business challenge they had faced in communicating to eBay’s huge merchant base how best to adapt to the fast changing e-commerce environment. This environment required sellers to update their listings several times a month\, and developed into a programme of automating listing updates\, which was provided with guided support and tool training. The two speakers clearly demonstrated the use and scaling of Big Data data and scaling\, in order to increase accuracy of targeting and content to deliver operational value to their merchants.  They exhibited first-hand the intricate and remarkable cooperation between a business/marketing unit dedicated to offering a better value proposition to their clients and an analyst who understands the business aspects and is able to offer creative solutions to his partner. \n  \nJerome Couturier\, 3H Parners\nJerome Couturier\, chairman of 3H Partners challenged delegates to adopt a Big Data approach throughout the business process and in particular in the decision-making phase.  He presented various ways that companies can gain value and build a competitive advantage by the use of big data in decision-making\, demonstrating the example of a large pharmaceutical and of a leading sports equipment manufacturer. \n  \nNicolas de Cordes\, Orange France Telecom\nCould Big Data help us better understand population movements in Africa? Nicolas de Cordes\, from Orange France\, presented the D4D – Data for Development – program\, piloted by Orange in the context of a UN program. In association with the Université Catholique de Louvain and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, the program aim is to make large sets of Telco data\, collected over 5 months in Ivory Coast\, available to teams of researchers from around the world. The project will result in a series of scientific publications\, and will help policy makers improve their understanding of phenomena such as geographical mobility or population density. The project also proved to be a challenging one\, for instance to make sure the anonymity of the data was preserved. Yet\, making Big Data sets publicly available represents a formidable way of sharing a new form of knowledge about populations\, in countries in which existing infrastructures of data collection do not offer such detailed information. \n  \nDuncan Ross\, Teradata\nDuncan Ross from Teradata challenged the audience to adopt a philanthropic approach to Big Data by asking the question\, why are some of the brightest minds of a generation focused on cutting churn rates by 0.2%?  Drawing on recent work by UN Global Pulse (www.unglobalpulse.org) and Datakind (www.datakind.org)\, Ross reflected on the positive impact that data can have on development and on humanity in general.  His remarks were a clear echo to the presentation by Orange’s Nicolas de Cordes on the crowd-sourcing use of Big Data for community development in the Ivory Coast. Of particular interest is the area of intersection between social media and Big Data which can not only provide large quantities of in-depth consumer insights from around the world\, but also disseminate raw data and insights to allow creative solutions to emerge through crowd-sourcing. \n  \nSabine McNeill\, 3-D Metrics\nHow can one turn numbers into words and meaning? Sabine McNeill introduced her concept of ‘software lenses’\, designed to gain deeper insights into consumers’ Big Data. Sabine McNeill argued that the richer insights provided by data can help us to improve our understanding of both actual and potential customers. Sabine McNeill also insisted on the importance of working with reliable metrics\, and made a distinction between marketing metrics – analysing data from prospective customers – and business metrics – analysing actual customers. Sabine McNeill\, who uses advanced mathematics models and visualisation with her clients’ data sets\, argued that seeing more of the data\, especially using advanced techniques\, quickly overcomes the costs of generating these insights. \n  \nDarren Oddie\, Agile Customer Service\nWelcome to the world of Marketing 3.0! While some consumers still adopt traditional consumption patterns\, many markets have been changed by the emergence of new technologies that have transformed consumption patterns. Darren Oddie\, from Agile Customer Insight\, argued that marketers should not stop at collecting and storing information about their customers\, but should endeavour gaining insights from it\, albeit with realistic expectations. However\, marketers should not forget the value of ‘human capital’\, which combined with Big Data insights\, could give companies a real edge. Yet\, the difficulty in finding marketing practitioners that are statistically proficient is often a problem. Darren Oddie also argued that marketers need to work more closely with external partners\, such as advertising agencies and companies specialised in providing consumers insights\, in order to maximise the value of their customer data information. \n  \nMax Ciferri\, 3H Partners\nContinuing on the theme proposed earlier by Jerome Couturier\, Max Ciferri developed the notion of Big Data and decision-making.  In particular he presented an innovative “Control Tower” instrument which allows executives to access analytical reports and deep-dive into specific areas ranging from product sales to customer features to territory specificities.   Using such user-friendly tools\, business and marketing teams are able to avoid the so-called “analysis paralysis” often associated with the availability of overwhelming quantities of data.  Technological advances have made it possible for data to be made available relatively easily and cheaply to individual manager’s desktops and even smartphones.  However being able to use data effectively and creatively in decision-making requires interfaces that structure the data and make it “speak” in a more relevant manner \n  \nPanel Synopses\n  \nPanel 1: How to be creative at getting value from big data \nBen Voyer\, Visiting Professor (London School of Economics) launched the discussion by asking how data can help businesses in engaging and in creating a dialogue with customers. Fundamentally\, personal data such as age\, gender\, marital status can reveal a lot about someone’s behaviour\, as explained by Mark Boyt (Xerox). The discussion was centred around the fact that we are all connected all the time with the rise of smartphone usage. Apps on smartphones are now one of the ways to connect with consumers and huge amount of data can be extracted from the usage of apps. Traditionally\, implicit messages were extracted from customer data\, nowadays explicit messages can be received directly and commonly from customers voicing themselves through social media and the fact that everyone is connected all the time. \nThe next discussion theme was around content creativity. The issue is\, how businesses can communicate more creatively with the help of data in an environment in which customers are demanding more. Peter Abraham (Econsultancy) emphasized on the vast opportunities available for communication both offline and online. The bar for communication content has definitely been raised. As mentioned before\, apps are vastly used these days and because the smartphone is a personal device\, the app is a very personalised communication tool. When a customer uses an app\, they are essentially engaging with the company. Peter Abraham also emphasized the importance of aligning the relevance of channel and content with the target customer. Mark Boyt further commented by saying that the conversation of relevance can change in a moment of time and place; that context is very relevant in determining relevance. As Max Jolly (dunnhumby) said\, the bar is raising but there is still scope to differentiate by doing it really well. \nThe panel discussion concluded with a discussion around the future of data. As data privacy and restriction laws and regulations are getting more rigid\, Max Jolly shared his thoughts that marketers will need to educate customers on how the company is using data. Google is a particularly good example for this. The ethical use of data is predicted to be the next big issue. There is also the issue of companies collecting a lot of data but the market does not see a lot of personalised products. Feedback from the panel on that issue include companies not being able to see the value created by these data and there is a lack of understanding of how marketers can use these data. Marie Taillard (ESCP Business School) suggested a further potential issue of breaking consumers’ trust if information collected is not fully utilised. \nPanel 2: Building great creative analytics team \nWhat aspect does creativity add to analytics? \nJudy Bayer (Teradata): It is qualitative and adds a huge amount of added value. It is incremental. Creativity makes every team richer and more diversified in ideas because of the different skills the team members have. Only creative organizations or organizations which have a creative approach will be leaders. \nNick Moodie (eBay): I think creativity comes in when big data is analyzed. You have to ask the right questions\, which will then help you to get the interpretation and conclusion right. \nEdouard Servan-Schreiber (10gen): Creativity is always needed since math is only a part of analytics. You want to get closer to the customer’s mind – be able to break it down and quantify it. \nJérôme Couturier (3H Partners): There is no analytics without creativity – it is a must\, not an option. To make sense of all the mass of big data\, creativity must be applied. \nAudience member: Often when you ask an analyst\, there is either a wrong or a right answer – which is often not correct and you have to look at the whole picture (creatively!) \nJudy Bayer: There is a new trend in society – everyone wants to network and people are collaborating on every level. Therefore society is moving and enabling the process that analytics will be moving towards a collaborative fashion as well. \nAudience member: Do you think that there are enough institutions at the moment which are teaching and enabling this combination of creativity with analytics? \nJudy Bayer: There are a few programmes developed but mostly not since the institutions are still lacking interest. \nEdouard Servan-Schreiber: No! \nChris Halliburton (ESCP Business School): Since the amounts of data have increased so rapidly it is now becoming self-evident that creativity is needed to solve analytical problems\, right? \nEdouard Servan-Schreiber: I do not think it is dependent on how much and how complex the data is\, creativity is required for analytics – big or small. \nJudy Bayer: It is a task for management to implement this principle of operation into everyday life whether you are dealing with a huge amount of data or not. \nLaurence Clavere (ESCP Business School): What is the role and use of big data in product development in your point of view? Is there a big demand for big data from the product marketing itself? \nJérôme Couturier: Back in the old days\, companies used to believe that they understood the market and its demands better and knew what was needed\, but now companies aim to be closer to the customer and need the data and information from the customer’s own behavior to improve and satisfy customer needs and to develop the right products. \nNick Moodie: Yes and you have to analyze the behaviours to be able to draw conclusions regarding what consumers are missing. \nPanel 3: Ethical and privacy issues around creative uses of Big Data \nParticipants in Panel 3 included Duncan Ross (Teradata)\, Anthony Rimmer (Agile Customer Insights)\, Tom Van Laer (ESCP Business School) and Peter Stephenson-Wright (ESCP Business School).  The discussion revolved around the value that Big Data can bring to consumers and more generally to society.  This question puts the onus on analysts and marketers to think creatively about how they can improve lives in a way that is ethical\, relevant to individuals and society at large\, and does not violate consumers’ privacy. Relevance here can be in terms of lifestyle\, convenience and other benefits but also in terms of access to sensitive information.  Much of this relevance also comes from a trade-off between on the one hand\, how much information is captured and the associate privacy and ethical issues and on the other hand\, what the information is used for.  Trust can only be built between consumers and analysts (and the marketers using the data)\, if there is transparency between what is captured\, why it is captured and how it will be used. \nSome interesting points were raised: \n(1)   The government captures much more data than it is able to process and could make great strides towards solving economic challenges if it were to better use captured data \n(2)   Giving greater access to data to a wider range of people who can analyze it productively can potentially increase the value of the data at the same time as promoting greater transparency. \n(3)   The crowdsourcing and philanthropic efforts discussed earlier in the day in the presentations by Nicolas de Cordes\, Orange France Telecom and Duncan Ross\, Teradata\, were excellent examples of the potential societal value that can be extracted from data if the right framework is put into place\, e.g.\, clear value objectives\, broad access\, purging data of any sensitive and irrelevant information and strong privacy parameters. \n(4)   These “out of the box” uses of Big Data can also lead to the development of innovative\, valuable and ethical analytical practices to be used in both the private and public sectors \n\nPanel 4: Creativity in Big Data helps avoid “analysis paralysis” \nPanel 4 discussants included Max Ciferri (3H Partners)\, Darren Oddie (Agile Customer Insights)\, Laure Reillier (eBay) and Sabine McNeill (3D Metrics).  The discussion started with a reaffirmation of the conference’s main theme: creativity is crucial to the productive use of Big Data and necessary to afford better marketing insights.  The panel then went on to discuss another\, often overlooked\, dimension in the role of creativity\, its role in the decision-making process.  In this role\, creativity plays an important role in avoiding the “analysis paralysis” syndrome that results from too much data being easily accessible by untrained marketing specialists\, or even by senior decision-makers.  Not only does data need to be accessible\, it needs to be made intelligible in a way that makes managers able to interpret it appropriately\, in order to be able to use it effectively to make informed decisions. \nThe ability to interpret data\, to apply common sense and to triangulate it with different types of customer insights requires creativity.  One panellist described how prior to making a decision about a proposed change to customer experience\, data was used in the assessment exercise\, but only in tandem with a more qualitative evaluation of how the change would be perceived by customers. \nVisualizing data can make it easier to understand\, more approachable and therefore easier to interpret and to use productively in decision-making.  Clearly the critical challenge here is to ensure that the data is represented and communicated in a way that is most relevant to the audience that will use it.   Some will prefer visual data while others favour a verbal or storytelling approach. \nInstituting a dialogue between analysts and business decision-makers is critical. This dialogue was remarkably well illustrated in the joint presentation made earlier in the day by eBay’s Head of Seller Proposition and Business Analyst.  An important step is for the marketing manager to spend the appropriate amount of time at the beginning of the process thinking about the right questions to ask\, a task for which creativity is key.  Panellists agreed that there is often a gap between what a marketing manager or decision-maker needs analyzed and what is actually analysed.  In order to receive relevant data from their analysts\, marketing managers need to ask the right questions\, and be sure that these questions are clearly understood. In other words\, marketers and analysts need to ensure that they are speaking the same language.  Marketers often complain about analysts delivering unclear analyses\, but it is often the case that the question the analyst has been asked to answer is unclear as well. Therefore\, again\, creativity is required on both sides in order to imagine what the other needs and how it will be interpreted. \nQuestions were asked about the inclusion of social media insights as part of Big Data analyses.  The consensus among panellists was that most companies are still grappling with these types of data\, but that their role can be crucial in gaining a fuller picture of consumers and their attitudes and needs. \nConcluding this topic\, a question was raised about accuracy: how important is it to strive for full data accuracy.  A rather pragmatic answer was given “We always want to know the level of uncertainty we are dealing with\, but of course\, we never have 100% certainty. Not all the information we derive is 100% bullet proof. However\, for a CEO 100% accuracy is not really important. What they really care about\, are the insights and dialogues which is driven from the Data.”  This again confirms the role of data as a starting point for creative problem-solving and decision-making\, rather than a fail-proof solution. In practice however\, panellists confirmed that often a decision will be made on instinct prior to the availability of the data\, which will then serve to confirm the decision.
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