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Back to Brand & Heart – The CMO Barometer 2023

Stuart Mitchell

The Serviceplan Group’s CMO Barometer offers exclusive insights into the visions projected by international brand managers for 2023. In 2023, CMOs will be ‘humanising’ their day-to-day work in marketing. This is demonstrated by current responses from the CMO Barometer: an annual international study by the Serviceplan Group, where over 450 Chief Marketing Officers from the most prominent companies make specific assessments of marketing trends and exclusively share their expectations for the coming year. The past few months have shown that the only certainty is uncertainty. It influences brands, advertising, and…

Microsoft: 2022 Diversity & Inclusion Report: Driving progress through greater accountability and transparency

Stuart Mitchell

Lindsay-Rae McIntyre – Chief Diversity Officer, Microsoft has posted about their new Diversity and Inclusion report as below: Today I am sharing Microsoft’s 2022 Global Diversity & Inclusion Report, our fourth annual report and our ninth year of releasing our global workforce demographic data. This year’s data shows that globally we are a more diverse Microsoft overall today than we have ever been, with the highest year-over-year representation progress of the past five-year period for many employee communities. We’re motivated by our ongoing progress, and this year’s growth feels particularly…

Music, passion, and powerful women: Launch of amplifyHER, an exciting new UN podcast

Stuart Mitchell

Recently the UN launched amplifyHER; a vibrant, music-filled podcast, celebrating exciting women artists from around the world. Many women produce art in the face of, and sometimes inspired by, the challenges they face in society, whether related to insecurity, human rights, climate change, inequality, or simply because of their gender. In amplifyHER, we will hear directly from some of the most exciting and talented women singers in the business, from teenage Thai rapper Milli, to EDM powerhouse Faouzia, and Emel, the voice of the Tunisian revolution. The series is a…

Cost of Living Crisis Threatens to Widen Disparities for Ethnic Minority Workers in the UK

Stuart Mitchell

New research from non-profit People Like Us and Censuswide reveals professionals surveyed from Black, Asian, Mixed Race and minority ethnic backgrounds say government support will not see them through the next six months, a rate 7% higher than their white counterparts (52% vs 45%). This is causing them to dip into savings at a greater rate, with ethnic minority professionals’ savings declining 1.3x faster than their white colleagues (falling 16% vs. last year; compared to 13% for white professionals). Therefore professionals from racially diverse backgrounds are facing a two-fold crunch,…

Demonstrators show smart local energy systems’ net zero benefits

Stuart Mitchell

Prospering from the energy revolution demonstrator trials show smart local energy systems can make a real contribution to net zero delivery, but barriers remain. Background to the demonstrator trials Findings from Innovate UK trials are showing that place-based energy projects could bring major benefits for towns and cities by: helping them decarbonise more rapidly supporting the drive to net zero catalysing investment right across the UK At the same time, the trial projects have identified barriers in the way of rolling out such systems more widely. 2 new insight reports…