



I’ve been lucky enough to have had a fantastic corporate career; I’ve spent over 25 years in commercial roles with some of the biggest and most iconic brands, so it’s no great surprise that I’ve learnt a lot along the way.

In a corporate world that’s often cautious about unconventional paths, entrepreneurs can be overlooked in the recruitment process or seen as risky hires. At Zebra, we think this is a big mistake.

On a macro level, business is a pretty simple process, isn’t it? Money comes in, you have bills to pay, and what’s left is your bottom-line profit. Of course, you know this — it’s business 101. But somewhere along the line, ‘trading’ seems to have become a dirty word. Unsexy at best, and a dying discipline as businesses grow.

Why you should introduce experimentation in to your business

Its a conversation we have with many clients. The truth is that delivering commercial growth in a digital world seems to become ever more reliant on technical specialists – CX, UX, paid channels, SEO, social, hypotheses and modelling, optimisation, CRM, testing, and increasingly AI… The list seems endless and the MD/CEO confusion understandable. Some of the very biggest organisations can afford to contemplate in housing everything they need. But most leaders can’t, or don’t want to. So how do they balance the conundrum?

The role of silos in the failure of big projects, and what you can do to mitigate against it

How are big projects decided on in your business?
