Agenda - Day one - Monday 1 October

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Simon Gulliford, Chief Executive, Simon Gulliford Limited
Simon began his career as a lawyer, until the mid-1980s when he returned to University to study for an MBA. Following a series of jobs in selling, he became head of the Marketing Faculty at Ashridge Management College. In 1992 he set up his own consulting business and has since acted as the Marketing Director of Sears, helping to re-launch and subsequently demerge Selfridges. From there he was appointed Marketing Development Director of EMAP plc and helped launch and develop FHM, Red and Heat magazines. Until 2004 Simon was the Group Marketing Director for Barclays plc, where he instigated significant change and built Barclays into a world class marketing organisation. He has also worked on major projects for the following companies: Boots, Top Rank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Granada, ABB, Unilever, Deloitte & Touche and BDO Stoy Hayward.

Understanding and responding to customer need
As the battle for customers continues to intensify, understanding the customer and the customer’s perspective becomes increasingly important.

How do you attract and manage customers who will be loyal and profitable in the long term? Better strategies will deliver competitive advantage; this can be delivered through:

  • Quality of customer insight

  • Segmentation strategies

  • Corporate brand building

  • Developing propositions that are compellingly different and better.

During this presentation, Simon will show how the drivers of customer value deliver organisational value and how a strategic view of customer intelligence is critical to future success.