Robert Shaw

Robert Shaw

Strategic consultant, keynote presenter, author and professor

Location
London, United Kingdom
Industry
Management Consulting

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Robert Shaw's Overview

Current
Past
  • Head of Operational Research team in Energy Economics at British Coal
Education
  • Brunel University
  • University of Cambridge
  • University of Cambridge
  • William Hulme's Grammar School
Recommendations

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Connections

500+ connections

Websites

Robert Shaw's Summary

CEO magazine nominated him recently as a “leading new-generation business guru”. Twice author # 1 Marketing Book of the year.

Works as a consultant for companies as diverse as Barclays, BP, Manchester United and Universal Music, bringing with him a fantastic network of associates and real experts.

Through the years, world-recognized experts such as Philip Kotler, Jean-Claude Larreche, Malcolm McDonald, Andrew Ehrenberg and Don Shultz, as well as Industry icons including Sir Martin Sorrell, Sir Paul Judge, Sir Roy Gardner and Lord Marshall, (to namedrop a select few), have endorsed Shaw's pioneering Marketing Analytics work, which today is used by some of the world's largest corporations.

Specialties

One of the world's primary Marketing Analytics gurus. High performance marketing, sales and service.

Robert Shaw's Experience

Director

Business Economics Ltd

March 2011Present (1 year)

Developing and promoting software for marketing decision makers.

Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry

January 2004Present (8 years 2 months)

Research on Marketing Decision Making and Effectiveness. Teaching how to use marketing effectiveness models and data.

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

August 1989Present (22 years 7 months)

We're a leading Marketing Analytics firm.

Founded in the UK in 1989, we've worked with over 100 brands, typically large corporate brands, such as BP, Citi, and Universal Music, but also smaller ones including Book Club Associates and Manchester United.

We acknowledge freely we're a modest organisation, but punch well above our weight, and are highly regarded for delivering brilliant results.

We've undertaken extensive research into best-practice in Marketing Analytics, been awarded honorary professorships and written best-selling books that have been translated into 8 languages.

We're independent and not linked to any Agency group.

Specialties
Decision Support, Optimisation, Econometrics

Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry

July 19952005 (10 years)

Visiting Professor of Marketing

Marketing Consulting Practice

Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting)

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; ACN; Management Consulting industry

19821989 (7 years)

Established and headed marketing consulting practice in UK, working closely with Robert and Kate Kestnbaum in Chicago. Developed some of the world's first customer marketing databases, coined the term "database marketing", and wrote book of same title.

Head of Special Projects

Coors Brewers

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Food & Beverages industry

19791982 (3 years)

Head of special projects, running business analysis and models for Board. Scope included marketing, sales force, pricing, logistics and manufacturing.

Head of Operational Research team in Energy Economics

British Coal

19751979 (4 years)

Head of Operations Research team, with responsibility for Long-Range planning, innovation evaluation, energy policy studies.

Robert Shaw's Publications

  • Marketing Payback: is your marketing profitable?

    • FT Prentice Hall
    • 2005
  • Return on Ideas

    • Chartered Institute of Marketing
    • 2009
    Authors: Robert Shaw
  • Computer-aided marketing and selling: information asset management

    • Butterworth Heinemann
    • 1991
    Authors: Robert Shaw
  • Marketing accountability: improving business performance

    • Financial Times Reports
    • 1997
  • Measuring and Valuing Customer Relationships

    • Business Intelligence
    • 1999
    Authors: Robert Shaw
  • Marketing: Real People, Real Decisions

    • FT Prentice Hall
    • 2010
    Authors: Robert Shaw, Vincent Mitchell, Michael R Solomon, Greg W Marshall, Elnora W Stewart, Bradley R Barnes
  • Getting Better Value from Marketing Investments

    • Cranfield School of Management
    • 2002
    Authors: Robert Shaw
  • Improving Marketing Effectiveness

    • Economist Books
    • 1998
    Authors: Robert Shaw

    On the 20 key metrics in marketing and why they are important.

  • Database Marketing

    • Gower
    • 1987

    The first, the original defining book about Database Marketing.

  • Optimizing Marketing: the Ideas to Demand Chain

    • Emory Marketing Institute
    • November 2010

    Marketing is the least efficient process in business today, while at the same time being one of the most important. Yet within it there is a business process that can be simplified and streamlined. Robert Shaw and Philip Kotler describe a comprehensive framework for auditing and transforming for long-term efficiency embraced by giants such as Diageo and l’Oréal.

  • How to transform marketing through IT

    • Management Today
    • 1994
    Authors: Robert Shaw

    A research report about how marketing departments really use IT - beyond the hype of CRM. Updating the ITIMS report, including user experiences of the technology.

  • ITIMS: information technology in marketing and sales

    • Andersen Consulting
    • 1988
    Authors: Robert Shaw

    The first survey carried out on software in Sales and Marketing. Shows the state of play in 1988, ten years before the rise of Siebel.

  • Pseudamusium ellipticum limestone - a new lithostratigraphic unit in the Lower Carboniferous

    • Mercian Geologist
    • 1970
    Authors: Robert Shaw
  • The effects of energy conservation on pionization

    • Nuclear Physics
    • 1974
    Authors: Robert Shaw


  • Capital cost escalation and the choice of nuclear power stations

    • Energy Policy
    • December 1979
    Authors: Robert Shaw

Robert Shaw's Education

Brunel University

MSc, Operational Research

19751978

Business modelling
Marketing analysis
Econometrics
Simulation models

University of Cambridge

PhD, Nuclear Physics

19711974

Published scientific papers on high energy particle physics

University of Cambridge

First Class Honours, Advanced Physics

19681972

William Hulme's Grammar School

A level, Maths, Physics, Chemistry

19611968

Robert Shaw's Additional Information

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Groups and Associations:

Chartered Institute of Marketing (Fellow), Marketing Society (Fellow), Worshipful Company of Marketors (member of Think Tank)

Honors and Awards:

World Brands Congress "Brand Leadership Award"
CEO Magazine “leading new-generation biz guru"
CIM "marketing book of the year author"
Patent for media content broking system
Management Consultants Association, best marketing book of the year

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