Communications

From direct marketers to communications managers, press and PR and right through to sales and customer service people, the proliferation of possible contacts for one customer can be confusing and unhelpful. But get it right and communications revert to being a two way process where each step adds value to the conversation. Our Communications insight and advice provides anyone with a need to innovate and develop strategy and services for customer communications to stay ahead of the shifts in control that are being created by the empowered consumer.

Featured Publication

Decisions Decisions

This free-to-download briefing 16pp paper outlines the development of decision-support services - services designed specifically to help individuals make and implement better decisions. It’s a simple but profound shift. As well as creating a separate market in its own right, the decision support industry also changes the way other markets work in both the private and public sectors Read more...>

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How customer friendly are retailers’ privacy policies? This report summarises Ctrl-Shift's analysis of the top 100 online retailers and is free to download Read more...>

To coincide with the public launch of midata, we’re also publishing our research into the emerging Personal Information Management Services (or PIMS) market. Read more...>

Featured Slideshare

The Control Shift
The Control Shift

Posted: 22nd Feb 2011
By: Ctrl-Shift

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What the control shift looks like, why it's happening now, and what it means for organisations

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Market Watch

Posted: 16th May 2012

What sets social apart from call centres is the personalised, VIP service… Read more...>

Posted: 17th May 2012

American Express is trying something innovative with their mobile efforts.… Read more...>

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Scottish Power predicts midata’s role is going to increase as smart meters start collecting large quantities of data http://t.co/3PwcDB61

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