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Insights2020: The Ten Drivers That Separated Growth Outperformers

A conference presentation of the Insights2020 study, which tested 60 attributes across 60 markets and found ten that distinguished companies growing faster than their peers.
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Ten Drivers of Customer-Centric Growth, From the Insights2020 Study

The Insights2020 findings presented as a roundtable: what separates customer-centric overperformers across experience, obsession and the insights engine, and what an insights function has to become.
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Ten Drivers of Customer-Centric Growth

The Insights2020 findings presented in Amsterdam: what separates customer-centric over-performers, measured across 60 markets.
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Insights2020: The Ten Drivers, With the Numbers Behind Them

The global results summary of Insights2020, a study of customer-centric growth across 60 markets, reporting how far overperformers lead underperformers on each of ten drivers.
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Insights2020: The Global Results Summary

The full Insights2020 results, from study design and advisory board to the ten drivers and the tools built on them.
Interview

Why EffectiveBrands Sold to Millward Brown, in the Founder’s Words

Marc de Swaan Arons explains the 2014 acquisition that created Millward Brown Vermeer: the reasoning, the scale it bought, and the name.
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What Marketing Does Has Changed. How It Is Organized Has Not.

A summary of the Marketing 2020 findings, arguing that winning brands combine big insights, purposeful positioning and total experience, and that capability is what correlates most strongly with
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Marketing2020 Key Findings, December 2013

The December 2013 summary of Marketing2020: what the study measured, the ten things it expected to be different, and the five organizing principles it recommended.
Press Release

Nearly Three-Quarters of Marketers Say Societal Purpose Drives Growth

Early Marketing2020 findings presented at the first CMO round table held at the Cannes Lions Festival, chaired by the chief marketing officers of Unilever, IBM, Visa and Adobe.