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Reports and Webinar Catch-ups
Opinion Paper
Maximising M&A Value
Explore how Digital Transformation maximises M&A value by building scalable ‘landing zones’ that support buy-and-build strategies. Learn seven essential steps to drive growth, achieve operational synergies, and future-proof acquisitions through streamlined processes, customer-focused experiences, and technology integration for sustained success.
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From Protect and Pay to Predict and Prevent
Our panel of experts discusses the transformative shift from traditional insurance methods to innovative strategies driven by intelligent data and advanced personalisation.Discover how these cutting-edge technologies are reshaping the insurance landscape—predicting risks, preventing claims, and reducing costs
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Opinion Paper
Above & Beyond Your Consumer Duty?
This opinion paper is designed to help businesses strike a balance between meeting Consumer Duty requirements and adapting to evolving customer expectations, and doing it all without strangling growth or profit margins.
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Opinion Paper
To ERP or not to ERP
High-growth PE-backed businesses have several growth drivers, including operational efficiency, digital transformation, M&A, talent, and leadership. The effectiveness of these drivers depends on the business's maturity in each of these areas. This paper aims to assist businesses in navigating between the challenge of choosing between ERP implementation and a data abstraction layer.
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Opinion Paper
5 game changing benefits to upgrading from Umbraco 8
With Umbraco 8 approaching end of life, businesses need to start thinking about their approach to modernising and future-proofing their platform. In this paper we discuss reasons to upgrade and the routes to a modernised platform that may suit your business needs.
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Webinar
Using Consumer Duty as a Growth Platform
Our panel of industry experts discuss the challenges and opportunities to meet consumer duty obligations whilst optimising processes and reducing costs.
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A Pragmatic Approach to AI Report
Artificial intelligence isn’t going to disrupt your industry; it is already doing so. We’ve gathered expert insight to give you a better understanding of how to take that first crucial step.
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Webinar
The Pragmatic Approach to AI
Our expert panel discuss creating a strategic AI roadmap can be daunting amidst the hype and relentless new AI technologies.
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Building A Roadmap For Success
When should private equity firms roll up their sleeves and contribute to value creation in their portfolio companies?
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The Roadmap for Digital Success
Our panel shares their insights on maximising exit values by balancing implementing a digital transformation strategy with the ever-present focus on operational efficiencies and revenue growth.
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Opinion Paper
How to optimise mature PPC campaigns to generate more revenue
In this paper, we share our top tips on how to get the most from your PPC campaigns, gleaned from over two decades of managing award-winning, profitable PPC campaigns for high-growth companies.
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Do clients care about your digital transformation?
Wealth managers face a conflicting new reality. Digital disruption, shifting demographics, and evolving expectations are triggering dramatic transformations, which must also accommodate a constantly changing regulatory landscape. We look at how wealth management firms capitalise on these opportunities?
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Webinar
Discussing Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Our panel of industry and psychology experts discuss challenges and futures for Health Sector and how to balance efficiency and experience when leveraging digital to transform.
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Should healthcare providers focus on efficiency or experience?
A look at how efficiency and the desire to create better treatment drives the healthcare industry to transform digitally and how that influences its focus on experience and efficiency.
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Opinion Paper
Why CPOs are essential for balancing efficiency and experience
In this paper we discuss the importance of the Chief Product Officer as part of a digital transformation program. We look at their how to find one and how to get the best out of them.
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Opinion Paper
Why a CTO is key to creating value in high-growth companies
We look at the CTO role and when to hire one, because acquiring key people at the right points in a Digital Transformation journey is an important pillar of success.
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OpnionPaper
Should wealth managers transform for experience or efficiency?
This paper explores how the current market challenges and the state of wealth management digitalisation are shaping the ways firms approach transformation.
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Opinion Paper
Buy, Sell or Hold - Where next for your mature SEO strategy?
For many, this once critical channel starts to feel like a drain on marketing budget after years of investment. So we're asking, where next for your mature SEO strategy?
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Webinar
Efficiency Vs Experience In Wealth
Our panellists discuss how to achieve a balance between efficiency and experience when digitally transforming businesses in the Wealth Sector.
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Opinion Paper
The Law of Change
Can an online retail mindset help legal firms survive digital disruption? We look at how digital disruption is affecting legal firms and highlight some of the lessons learned in the e-commerce sector.
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Opinion Paper
Transforming for Efficiency or Experience
We explore the struggle, between experience and efficiency, that many are currently wrestling with as they seek to digitally transform their organisations.
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Opinion Paper
Should a company rebrand for the next phase of growth?
Every ambitious company reaches a juncture in their development where a rebrand is considered a lever to fuel further growth. We look at the most important issues when considering a rebrand.
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Webinar
Efficiency Vs Experience Discussion
Our panellists discuss the tension and balance between enhanced efficiency and improved experience during Digital Transformation.
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Report
A Wealth of Opportunity
We review PE-Backed Wealth and Asset Management businesses to uncover the post-pandemic potential in the sector.
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Ensuring the future of Insuring
We look at how technology is becoming a key value driver for PE-backed insurance companies.
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Healthcare industry digital wellness report
With an aging population, pandemic-weary societies, exponential growth in health & wellbeing spend and an explosion of health data, it’s little wonder that healthcare is a key trend in private equity deal origination.
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Webinar
Modernise your guest experience without splashing out
Our Principal Engineer, Carole Logan and our Innovation Director, Martin Jordan explore contemporary hotel technology. Discover the opportunities to modernise your guest experience in 2021.
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Report
Compete, collaborate or collapse?
What role do banks and building societies have in the future of consumer financial services, and how can technology keep them ahead?
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Banking Payment Process Review
We've reviewed the digital banking payment process across several providers to show where improvements can be made to its effectiveness.
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Webinar
Digitising for growth
Our first session discussing pivoting business models that drive digital growth, automation of operations and the culture that makes a successful tech and digital business.
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Webinar
Are you, your target companies and portfolio businesses ready to take on tomorrow?
We discuss emerging themes pre-deal, post-deal and as companies get ready for exit. Hosted by Chris Gauld, digital transformation strategy advisor and award-winning entrepreneur helping high growth PE-backed businesses achieve scale and deliver diversification and digitisation.
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Building delightful Umbraco solutions
This is a story of a ground-up rebuild in partnership with Umbraco. We share how we replaced every part of Village’s website, let you in on all the tips and tricks and hopefully get you inspired for your next Umbraco solution. Not only did the solution increase conversion rate to over 13%, but it delivered a 21:1 ROI and powered integrated Amazon Echo In-room Concierges and Totems for Hotel Lobbies.
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Banking Bounceback - Financial services in a changed world - An updated view
The country is starting to open up again, optimism has returned to the marketplace and the chancellor has stimulated the market with new spending incentives. Join us for a brief look at what this means for banks and financial services. And how brands, marketers and digital teams can stay ahead.
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How health tech and innovation can help the healthcare and hospital sector recover
It's often forgotten that the healthcare and hospital sector is actually the one that has seen the most upset and change in the last 3 months. Our webinar explores how recent events have affected the sector, what the consumer reaction to it is and, critically, how the sector can exploit innovation and technology to recover more quickly.
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Insights, Ideas and Innovation from the Hotel Sector and Beyond
Explore some of the latest industry insights and discuss the ideas and innovations helping marketers on the path to business recovery. Martin Jordan will be joined by Hotel Marketing Association Committee Members Claire Bell & Stephen Moran.
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Webinar
What retail brands should do during the COVID-19 crisis
Join us for our fast-paced webinar delivering market insights and trends from our research team, a review of the competitive marketplace and a number of actionable ideas to work on right now. This 30 minute session will inspire you to get fit for the new post-lockdown world.
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What energy retail brands should do during the COVID-19 crisis
If you are in the Energy Retail business, watch our fast-paced webinar focused on this sector. Delivering market insights and trends from our research team, a review of the competitive marketplace and a number of actionable ideas to work on right now, this 30-minute webinar will inspire you on how to get fit for the new post-lockdown world.
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Revisiting travel & leisure in the COVID-19 crisis
Four weeks since our previous, highly popular webinar to the Travel & Leisure sector and there have been many changes. We review the ever-evolving consumer mindset, look at search signals, market data and brand research as well as key actions to focus on in the coming weeks.
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Health & Fitness during COVID-19
For marketers, brand owners and digital teams at health, fitness and gyms, join us for an exploration on the trends, signals and challenges within the health & fitness space.
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Banking & COVID-19 - Flexibility, surety, service
Insights into how banks and finance brands are perfectly placed to play a strong part in this COVID-19 crisis and how technology could help.
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Insurance & COVID-19
How the COVID-19 crisis could define the future of insurance products and how digital readiness could keep you in front.
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Travel brands and COVID-19
For the travel industry, preparation, insight, research and proactivity is critical right now. When this is over, it will be the biggest fight for revenue the market has ever seen.
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Webinar
Fight or Flight Webinar
Martin Jordan, Equator's Innovation & Insight Director, looked at what brands should be doing to survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Car Dealership Sector Review
Exploring the accelerating pace of change in the automotive sector
In this study, we aim to highlight the major trends that are taking place in the automotive sector and show how dealers are performing in this fast-changing environment.
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Hotel Sector Review
The hotel in the clouds
Embracing new technology will help hoteliers revolutionise the customer experience and win business back from Online Travel Agents (OTAs), according to our latest report.
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Luxury Hotel Sector Review
Do luxury hotel sites deliver luxury experiences?
In this report we investigate how the world's top luxury hotel websites measure up in terms of their digital customer experience and what lessons can be learned by all luxury hotel brands.
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What travel brands should do during the COVID-19 crisis
The effects of COVID-19 will be felt long after the lockdowns are lifted. The next few months aren’t going to be plain sailing for the travel industry. For the travel industry, preparation, insight, research and proactivity is critical right now. When this is over, it will be the biggest fight for revenue the market has ever seen.
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Fight or Flight
With the COVID-19 pandemic, we are living through one of the most significant global crises in fifty years. Read our report on what brands should be doing.
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Winning the race for customers and margin in the new energy economy
The energy industry is still coming to terms with seismic shifts; aggressive customer acquisition by challenger brands and intense regulatory, political and social change.
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