The podcast for corporate Insight leaders

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March 1, 2022

Transforming Insight Podcast - Trailer

Welcome to Transforming Insight, the podcast for anyone who has the ambition to transform their Insight team and create an Insight-driven organisation. Your host is James Wycherley, chief executive of the Insight Management Academy, and the author of Transforming Insight: …

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April 5, 2022

Episode 1: The best time ever to work in Insight

There has never been a better time to work in a corporate Insight team; our analysts and researchers have better data, we all have an improved understanding of human decision-making, and many of our organisations have more appetite for customer …

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April 13, 2022

Episode 2: What Is Insight?

Unfortunately, we all have a tendency to define our Insight work according to the data, or the methodology, in which we have the most expertise. If you began your career working in a market research agency, there’s always going to …

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April 20, 2022

Episode 3: The purpose of Insight

The IMA carries out a lot of benchmarking to help organisations in the UK, North America, Europe and Asia better understand their Insight capability. What are the most common findings? Many Insight leaders recognise that they spend more time producing …

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April 27, 2022

Episode 4: Transforming Insight at ASOS

In this extended episode, James Wycherley is joined by Sandra Kampmann, Director of Insight and Analytics at ASOS. They discuss Sandra’s role, her career path and presumptions about Insight, her ambition to transform Insight and the Insight strategy she is …

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May 11, 2022

Episode 5: From the market to the money

In this episode, James introduces a model that can help Insight teams map from the market to the money. If our organisations are to succeed, they need joined-up insights.

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May 18, 2022

Episode 6: Making up the numbers

In this 15-minute episode, James asks if our Insight teams should start making up their numbers.

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May 26, 2022

Episode 7: Nailing the real business issue

In this 15-minute episode, James looks at how progressive Insight teams respond to requests.

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June 9, 2022

Episode 8: Transforming Insight at Halfords

Episode 8 of the IMA's Transforming Insight podcast is now available. In this extended episode James talks to Debra Walmsley, Head of Customer Strategy & Insight at Halfords.

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June 23, 2022

Episode 9: Insight investigations

In this 15-minute episode James looks at how great Insight teams investigate business issues. In episode 7 of our podcast, we looked at the importance of nailing the real business issue before launching new pieces of analysis or research.

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July 8, 2022

Episode 10: The evolution to Insight farming

In this 15-minute episode, James looks at how great Insight teams investigate business issues. Insights are contextualised observations about markets, consumers, and customers that have the potential to change how an organisation acts and achieves success.

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Sept. 15, 2022

Episode 11: Sowing the seeds

In the last episode of season 1, episode 10, we introduced the concept of Insight farming and drew a comparison between Insight farming and Insight hunting. Insight hunting represents the natural tendency of most Insight teams to spend nearly all …

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Sept. 22, 2022

Episode 12: Cultivating Knowledge

As we plough through past projects, we may find an immediate payback - golden nuggets that are of great interest to senior decision-makers. But if we want to produce a crop that we can harvest year after year, in other …

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Sept. 29, 2022

Episode 13: Developing Knowledge Systems

In this episode, James talks about the way that successful Insight teams approach knowledge systems. Over the last 18 years the IMA has talked to hundreds of Insight leaders and discussed the knowledge systems they wish they had, would love …

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Oct. 6, 2022

Episode 14: Transforming Insight at Carnival

Episode 14 of the IMA's Transforming Insight podcast is now available. In this extended episode James talks to Jan Worsley, Insights Director at Carnival UK. Jan worked in IT before moving to the TNS World Panel and becoming Innocent Drinks’ …

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Oct. 20, 2022

Episode 15: Driving change through influence

In this episode James talks about the way that successful Insight teams influence decision-makers. In our podcast so far, we’ve explored the twin requirements for corporate Insight teams to generate new insights and to develop accumulated knowledge - knowledge about …

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Oct. 27, 2022

Episode 16: Seek first to understand

What question do you get asked most often at work? Is it about what insights we have on our customers? Or about the latest insights on our brand? Or perhaps on the latest consumer trend? Every organisation has its own …

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Nov. 10, 2022

Episode 17: Improving stakeholder relationships

In this episode James looks at how successful Insight teams become trusted advisers. In the last episode, Lisa and I were discussing how we would never influence any group of people before we had taken steps to better understand them. …

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Nov. 24, 2022

Episode 18: Transforming Insight at Card Factory

Episode 18 of the IMA's Transforming Insight podcast is now available. In this extended episode, James talks to Liz Lamb, Head of Insight and Data at Card Factory. Liz gives an overview of her rich and varied career in Insight …

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Dec. 8, 2022

Episode 19: Influencing for introverts

In this episode James looks at how successful Insight teams learn to harness the power of their introverts. In episode 17 we explored the ways in which Insight managers, researchers and analysts could develop trusted adviser relationships with senior decision-makers. …

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Dec. 15, 2022

Episode 20: Nudging decision-makers

In this 16-minute episode James looks at how successful Insight teams learn from the world of behavioural economics to improve their influencing tactics. In the last 20 years, there’s been an enormous advance in our understanding of the way we …

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Jan. 5, 2023

Episode 21: Driving change through communication

In this 15-minute episode, the first of season 3, James looks at how successful Insight teams can drive change through communication. In season 2, we looked at how Insight people can influence the senior managers who make key decisions. That’s …

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Jan. 19, 2023

Episode 22: Transforming Insight at Sainsbury's

Episode 22 of the IMA's Transforming Insight podcast is now available. In this extended episode, James talks to Liz Boffey, Director of Insight at Sainsbury’s. Liz talks about how she now sees herself as an end–to–end Insight leader, having experienced …

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Feb. 2, 2023

Episode 23: Insight communication programmes

Lots of corporate Insight teams work very closely with marketing departments, but how good are we at marketing our own insights? Or even recognising the need to market them? When Insight leaders think about improving the communication of their knowledge …

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