As the first company ever to be valued at a trillion dollars last year, Apple inevitably attracts a great deal of commentary about it's future direction and potential strategic challenges. It is unsurprising then that...

As the global news cycles of recent weeks starkly demonstrate, we are on the precipice of the global data revolution. Companies, organisations, governments, regulators and individuals are starting to understand the...

Chinese consumers set a new record yesterday, spending more than US$1bn at Alibaba.com in just the first five minutes of Singles' Day. Within the first two hours, they had spent more than half of last year's total...

What does marketing mean in the today’s tech-driven, consumer-savvy world? In a constantly changing landscape, where start-ups succeed or fail at pace and the role of marketing is dramatically different in each stage...

One of the greatest privileges at The MBS Group has been working for the Tata Group. It’s the biggest family-owned business that we have worked for. From 1991, Ratan Tata was responsible for transforming the business...

In an era where the pace of change is relentless, businesses have needed to abandon traditional organisational structures, seek out new kinds of talent where the emphasis is on potential rather than experience, and find...

The last few weeks have seen a flurry of social networks announcing plans to morph themselves into ecommerce operations. First YouTube announced plans for shoppable adverts, before parent company Google quickly followed...

At The MBS Group we thrive on a challenge – we always have – and there are few challenges greater than taking over a failed search from a competitor. Knowing that the market has already been extensively mapped,...

Readers of a certain generation will understand what I mean when I say that 2015 doesn’t look anything like I imagined it would. When I was growing up we were told that, by now, we’d all be driving flying cars and...