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I recently went to watch The Devil Wears Prada musical in the West End. At the end of the performance, the cast relayed a very emotional message of support to the community of people living with HIV and AIDS, and then announced they were collecting donations for the Elton John AIDS Foundation. It struck me in that moment that although HIV is no longer a constant in the public consciousness, the effects of a global health crisis will always be felt – even over 40 years after its emergence.
Creating a winning social media strategy can be compared to crafting a culinary masterpiece. You must follow each process step, select ingredients carefully and combine them to produce the perfect result.
Relentless. Competitive. Tough. Just a few words to describe the media landscape at the moment. There’s no doubt that it’s an especially challenging time to get cut through. But rather than being disheartened, we’ve put our heads together and collaborated with clients to ensure important stories and opinions still get the space they deserve.
In today’s fierce business climate, organisations are facing a perfect storm. A major challenge is that competition is strong among companies. This is not only when it comes to winning business but also attracting and retaining the best talent – the people who ultimately fuel your business success.
Our decision to reposition Stand from an agency to a consultancy when we launched our new website was a natural evolution. We saw a shift in the work we were asked to do, whilst the perception of what an agency ‘does’ was becoming more limited. Whilst we still had agency in our website and email addresses, we’d been moving in this direction for a while. We found ourselves working as often with founders and CEOs as we did with Heads of Comms on a brief that encompassed far more than communication.
In our latest roundtable, we discussed the energy transition’s current trajectory with some of the industry’s most prominent figures. The roundtable was aptly timed – the UK general election was called for 4th July the day before the roundtable took place, making the discussion particularly poignant. In this article, we digest some of the key themes raised during the roundtable and shed light on what the leading voices across the energy, policy and investment spaces think.
The new era that financial services is entering is exciting and filled with endless possibilities, providing more room for collaboration and allowing us to access money and services at our fingertips. However, we must enter this new age cautiously and with those less savvy in mind to ensure that we have both the structures and the human touch in place to make sure it works for us all, not just the privileged few.
🦾 AI can assist us with time-consuming tasks and overall research, enabling us to dedicate more energy and time to strategic and creative tasks. However, it is down to our human skills to ensure every output conveys a meaningful message in line with our company’s values and quality standards.
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