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Monthly archives: October 2025

Why Digital Projects Fail — Reading Time: 4 minutesA practical guide for business and project leaders on spotting the warning signs in digital projects — and taking back control before it’s too late. The Silent Slide into Failure: Five Early Warnings That Digital Projects are Dying Slowly Digital projects rarely crash and burn in fireballs. More often, they [...]

Why Digital Projects Fail (and How to Fix Them Before ...

October 31, 2025 in Digital Transformation / Project Management tagged Business / Digital Leadership / Digital Projects / Digital Transformation / Success by markconwayuk

A to Z B2B Customer Experience — Reading Time: 8 minutesWhat really drives loyalty, trust, and value in your B2B Customer Experience? B2B Customer experience isn’t a department anymore — it’s the arena where every B2B organisation now competes. Products can be copied, prices undercut, and technologies leapfrogged, but how customers feel when they work with you determines whether they [...]

The A to Z of B2B Customer Experience (2025 Edition)

October 27, 2025 in Business / Customer Experience / Leadership tagged Customer Experience / Customer Services by markconwayuk

From Pitch to Delivery - Where B2B Trust Breaks Down — Reading Time: 4 minutesWinning the deal is only half the battle – Pitch to Delivery Success is Key In the pitch room, the atmosphere is electric. Slides are polished, ideas flow, and promises are made with confidence. Customers nod along, excited by the possibilities. They say “yes” to the vision. But the true [...]

From Pitch to Delivery: Where B2B Trust Breaks Down

October 24, 2025 in Uncategorized by markconwayuk

B2B Growth — Reading Time: 4 minutesB2B Growth slowing, but why? When B2B growth stalls, leadership teams often point the finger at market shifts, aggressive competition, or disruptive technology. Those factors matter, but in countless organisations I’ve seen, they’re not the real killer. The silent assassin of B2B growth is misalignment across functions. It doesn’t scream [...]

The Silent Killer of B2B Growth: Misalignment

October 20, 2025 in Business / Leadership / Management / Teams tagged Communication / Leadership / Sales. Marketing by markconwayuk

A to Z Digital Leadership — Reading Time: 8 minutesDigital leadership isn’t just leadership with shinier tools. It’s a different discipline altogether. Traditional leaders rose through hierarchies, steered with experience, and relied on authority to get things done. Digital leaders still need authority and experience, but they also need speed, adaptability, and the humility to learn faster than the [...]

The A to Z of Digital Leadership

October 17, 2025 in Digital Transformation / Leadership tagged Digital Leadership / Digital Literacy / Digital Transformation / Leadership by markconwayuk

Account Based Marketing, B2B Marketing — Reading Time: 4 minutesYou may have seen Account-Based Marketing mentioned in our recent A to Z of B2B Marketing. Most B2B marketing still tries to cast a wide net. Big campaigns, bigger contact lists, and endless “leads” that rarely convert. The result? Wasted spend, shallow engagement, and sales teams chasing the wrong people. [...]

Account-Based Marketing: The Smart Way to Grow B2B Relationships

October 13, 2025 in Marketing tagged ABM / Account-based Marketing / marketing / Sales by markconwayuk

A to Z B2B Marketing — Reading Time: 9 minutesIntroduction Back in 2013, Oak Consult published an A to Z of Marketing. It was useful at the time, but it was written with a broader marketing lens that included plenty of B2C thinking. Since then, Oak Consult has spent more than a decade focused where it matters to us [...]

The A to Z of B2B Marketing

October 10, 2025 in Business / Leadership / Management / Marketing tagged ABM / Account-based Marketing / marketing by markconwayuk

Project Rescue — Reading Time: 9 minutesWhen projects derail and when to move into Project Rescue Every leader has faced it: the project that starts with promise, burns through months of effort, and then stalls. Deadlines slip, costs spiral, and meetings feel more like crisis briefings than progress updates. In the private sector, that might be [...]

The A to Z of Project Rescue

October 6, 2025 in Leadership / Management / Project Management / Technology tagged Business / Communication / Leadership / Success / Transformation by markconwayuk

Making Digital Transformations Stick — Reading Time: 6 minutesContinuous Improvement Beyond Go-Live The Myth of “Finished” In the final blog of the series, we dive into how to ensure that your digital transformations stick. In the first two blogs of this series, we looked at how to craft a digital transformation vision that inspires, and how to lead [...]

Making Digital Transformations Stick

October 3, 2025 in Digital Transformation / Leadership / Management / Project Management tagged CX / Digital Transformation / EX / Project Management by markconwayuk