Paul Holmes
20 Feb 2012
Challenges remain, but expect an aging population to create opportunities, and plenty of activity in public affairs
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Paul Holmes
20 Feb 2012
Ubiquity and convergence are two big buzzwords in technology for 2012. And look out for cleantech.
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Arun Sudhaman
17 Feb 2012
At first glance, APCO’s acquisition of StrawberryFrog appears an unlikely union.
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Holmes Report
13 Feb 2012
Hot: elections, restoring trust, developing markets, energy. Not so hot: public spending.
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Paul Holmes
09 Feb 2012
Hot: employee engagement, corporate responsibility, the energy sector and financial services. Still not: M&A and other transactions.
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Paul Holmes
06 Feb 2012
In the first of a series of articles looking at growth areas for the year ahead, we look at consumer brand building.
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Arun Sudhaman
05 Feb 2012
If reports from Davos are to be believed, the language of public relations has well and truly penetrated the boardroom.
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Arun Sudhaman
29 Jan 2012
Chengdu is one many Chinese “tier two” cities engaged in an increasingly competitive struggle for international tourism and investment dollars.
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Arun Sudhaman and Paul Holmes
25 Jan 2012
From TEPCO to News Corp to Penn State to Blackberry to Dow Chemical, some of the biggest crises of 2011 and the lessons we learned.
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Arun Sudhaman and Paul Holmes
25 Jan 2012
From Netflix to Sony to HP to Qantas to the European Central Bank, five more high-profile crises and the lessons we learned.
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Arun Sudhaman
11 Jan 2012
Amid a continued stream of negative news, does the UK need to address a reputation problem ahead of the Olympics?
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Arun Sudhaman
05 Jan 2012
Four case studies that showcase how data is being utilised by the PR industry.
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Arun Sudhaman
05 Jan 2012
Five ways in which data is changing the PR industry
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Arun Sudhaman
05 Jan 2012
Can a data-driven world fundamentally reshape the public relations profession?
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Arun Sudhaman
13 Nov 2011
Few firms have demised as dramatically as Vaishnavi Corporate Communications.
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Arun Sudhaman
10 Oct 2011
Recent transactions suggest that private equity firms may be overcoming their traditional aversion to the public relations world.
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Arun Sudhaman
26 Sep 2011
For the Asian PR industry, the prospect that local brands will spread their wings beyond the region has always seemed tantalisingly out of reach.
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Holmes Report
26 Sep 2011
A clear comms strategy will help HP's new chief succeed in difficult circumstances, says Text 100 CEO Aedhmar Hynes.
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Arun Sudhaman
04 Sep 2011
For all of Sina Weibo's as an emotional outlet, it is the service’s corporate credentials that are proving of interest to the country’s PR community.
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Arun Sudhaman
31 Aug 2011
A group of senior Singapore-based comms chiefs has called on agencies to adjust their models in light of the rapid changes in in-house PR needs.
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Paul Holmes & Arun Sudhaman
17 Jul 2011
Perhaps it was only a firm like GolinHarris that could challenge the status quo with a dramatically different business model.
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Arun Sudhaman
06 Jul 2011
All of them, of course, are winning efforts.
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Arun Sudhaman
04 Jul 2011
Our panel’s favourites. Please comment below to add yours.
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Arun Sudhaman
04 Jul 2011
Somewhat surprisingly, there is plenty of support for pitch theatre, as long as it is not gratuitous.
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Arun Sudhaman
04 Jul 2011
Chemistry, ideas and presentation skills win out as our panel explores how to develop a killer new business pitch.
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Arun Sudhaman
04 Jul 2011
Our five-part series explores how the art of new business pitching is finally showing signs of evolution.
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Arun Sudhaman
23 Jun 2011
There are many reasons why the public relations industry should focus more attention on mobile communication.
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Paul Holmes
10 Jun 2011
In the first of a series of questions to industry leaders, we ask what should world football body FIFA do as it faces charges of corruption?
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Arun Sudhaman
27 May 2011
Nokia’s six-month PR review indicates the challenges that will define the Finnish giant's attempts to rebuild its reputation for innovation.
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Arun Sudhaman
23 May 2011
Are Japanese companies unprepared for the radical levels of transparency that are required in the modern public relations era?
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Arun Sudhaman
05 May 2011
A former White House press secretary has warned that President Obama is facing some significant global PR challenges in the days ahead.
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Arun Sudhaman
21 Apr 2011
Walmart’s decision to buy a social media firm has raised eyebrows in digital circles.
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17 Mar 2011
Tickets are now available for The Holmes Report’s Think Tank Live conference in Prague on May 18. The conference brings together superstars from the advertising and public relations agency businesses, along with senior corporate communications and marketing executives, to discuss The Changing Relationship Between Marketing and Public Relations.
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Paul Holmes
14 Mar 2011
Corporations—and other institutions—are now facing a level of radical transparency that would have been unthinkable even a decade ago.
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Arun Sudhaman
06 Mar 2011
While a head of social media is rapidly becoming a must-have accessory for a range of different companies, the responsibilities in question can present a thorny challenge for corporate cultures that are often innately conservative – and prone to infighting.
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Paul Holmes and Arun Sudhaman
31 Jan 2011
The past year started with some of the corporate world’s most celebrated brands facing major crises. As the year went by, remarkably few of these companies covered themselves in glory.
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Paul Holmes and Arun Sudhaman
31 Jan 2011
HP, Nestle, Facebook and FoxConn
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Paul Holmes and Arun Sudhaman
31 Jan 2011
India's Commonwealth Games, BAA & the blizzard, Wikileaks.
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Paul Holmes
16 Jan 2011
Who wouldn’t want to be part of restoring one of the world’s great public relations brands to its former glory? Who wouldn’t want to be part of the PR management challenge of the decade?
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Paul Holmes
10 Jan 2011
It’s hard to believe that some of their larger peers do not occasionally harbor the same dreams.
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Arun Sudhaman
28 Nov 2010
Three giant agencies are battling for the title of world’s largest public relations firm, with Weber Shandwick topping The Holmes Report’s Global Rankings for 2010, just ahead of Fleishman-Hillard and Edelman.
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21 Nov 2010
The show Undercover Boss demonstrates the massive disconnect between C-suite and ground-level, and episodes often end with a wiser company boss promising to rethink corporate strategies.
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14 Nov 2010
Entry forms can be downloaded from the Holmes Report website, and the company has launched a SABRE Awards blog, which includes information on categories, deadlines and judges, as well as advice on compiling a winning award entry
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14 Nov 2010
Three experts - Mark Penn, Robert Mathias and Mark Irion - weigh in on the PR challenges ahead for President Barack Obama and the embattled Democratic Party, and the newly-resurgent Republicans.
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Paul Holmes
14 Nov 2010
A third of brands are using a cohesive approach to social engagement with online communities, up from 20 percent in 2009, according to a new study of 241 online communities from 78 major corporations.
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Paul Holmes
14 Nov 2010
A third of brands are using a cohesive approach to social engagement with online communities, up from 20 percent in 2009, according to a new study of 241 online communities from 78 major corporations.
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Arun Sudhaman
11 Nov 2010
Asia -Pacific observers hoping that the region’s reputation for boom and bust business cycles might have been laid to rest had some reason for encouragement in 2009.
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Arun Sudhaman
11 Nov 2010
Given that the UK PR market is best-known for rewarding creativity, it is perhaps no surprise that fortune favoured the brave in 2009.
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Arun Sudhaman
11 Nov 2010
Despite being the region where the global financial crisis first took shape, North American consultancies demonstrated why they remain the benchmark where innovation in PR is concerned.
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Arun Sudhaman
10 Nov 2010
While other regions have bounced back, with varying degrees of vigour, from the economic woes of the past two years, Continental Europe remains depressingly downbeat.
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