Monthly Archive: July 2014

Infographic: Personal Information Management Services (PIMS)

What are PIMS? This infographic summarises the important points you need to know about this emerging market. To find out more about how PIMS will impact business and how various sectors may be affected, read the Executive summary blog post...

Executive summary: Personal Information Management Services: An analysis of an emerging market

A new market is emerging for Personal Information Management Services (PIMS) – services that help individuals gather, manage and use information (including personal information) to make better decisions and manage their lives better. Ctrl-Shift finds that a mature market for...

Guest post: ‘How Marketing-as-a-Service builds trust and engagement’ by Graham Hill

Talk to most marketers and you get the impression that they know what makes their customers tick. They have piles of marketing research to prove it. But do they really? The recent fast.MAP Marketing Gap Tracker looked at the differences...

How Personal Information Management Services can help banks meet consumer needs

A report published by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today finds that essential parts of the UK retail banking sector “do not meet the needs of personal consumers or SMEs”. As a result the CMA has called for an...

Flourishing in a Personal Information Management Services (PIMS) environment

In a world of Personal Information Management Services (PIMS) individuals (consumers, customers, citizens) are empowered with sources of data, analytics, tools and technologies that were once the sole preserve of large, incumbent product or service providers. As PIMS change the...

Guest post: ‘midata latest’ by David Rawlins

In this guest blog post David Rawlins, Programme Leader midata, at the Department of Business Innovation and Skills discusses progress of the midata programme. The UK’s midata programme, which encourages companies to hand back to their customers the personal data...

Personal Information Management Services: threat or opportunity?

Our recent research shows that Personal Information Management Services (PIMS) represent a significant growth and innovation opportunity, opening up new markets potentially worth £16.5bn in the UK. Not everybody sees PIMS as an opportunity however. In some of our discussions...

Guest post: ‘Rebuilding the Internet around you’ by Graham Hill

In this blog post Ctrl-Shift associate Graham Hill explains the vision behind the HAT project and what it is trying to do. We live in an increasingly connected world, where much of our lives is being captured digitally as data:...