Categories Insights Serra Balls Post author By Serra Balls Post date 30 October 2023 Power and Progress: Our 1000 Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity – Eterna’s Book Club Two prominent economists ask if technological progress is always good for humanity, and what civil society needs to do to harness and direct Artificial Intelligence. In 1869, French count Ferdinand de Lesseps persuaded a group of international investors to fund an astonishing technological feat – the Suez Canal. Joining Europe and Asia through a manmade […] Tags featured, strategic communications
Categories Our Work Stakeholder engagement and advocacy Post author By Serra Balls Post date 3 July 2023 No Comments on Tellimer Tellimer Tailored stakeholder mapping and integrated communications to launch product expansion
Categories Our Work Reputation Risk, Issues and Crisis Management Post author By Serra Balls Post date 3 July 2023 No Comments on Major Trading Platform Major Trading Platform Communications scenario planning for potential reputational damage
Categories Insights Serra Balls Post author By Serra Balls Post date 27 January 2023 Thomas Piketty’s A Brief History of Equality – Eterna’s Book Club At Eterna Partners, we’re all avid readers. In many ways, it’s an essential part of what we do. Having the intellectual curiosity to reach beyond what’s making the headlines right now is critical in developing and implementing strategic communications plans fit for the future. That’s why we’ve created the Eterna Book Club. It’s a way […] Tags featured, marketing
Categories Insights Once more with feeling Post author By Serra Balls Post date 22 July 2022 Reasons to be cheerful Are funding and valuations really in the doldrums, and how can fintech firms fight back? “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin Fintech firms looking to raise money are not quite in panic mode, but rear ends are becoming […] Tags featured
Categories Insights Serra Balls Post author By Serra Balls Post date 31 January 2022 Wunderbar humblebrag: Deutsche Börse breaks LinkedIn It’s rare that LinkedIn is either funny or truly engaging. But the comms team at Deutsche Börse proved themselves to Be More Ryanair last week. In a post that was simply called, ‘whatever.’ the team pasted an image of in-house comms Oliver Frischemeier’s message to his intern Veera Dagbagli to sort out a recruitment post […] Tags b2b, LinkedIn, marketing
Categories Insights Serra Balls Post author By Serra Balls Post date 6 August 2021 Holy Cow! PureOaty’s creamy revenge This week Oatly, the non-dairy giant, lost its case against Rebecca Rayner and her brother Philip, who run family firm Glebe Farm in Cambridgeshire. In a classic David and Goliath battle, Oatly sought an injunction to stop Glebe Farm Foods selling its PureOaty brand after claiming it is too similar to its own Oatly label. […]
Categories Insights Serra Balls Post author By Serra Balls Post date 7 May 2021 28 Days Later Canary Wharf is a marvel, from Michael Heseltine’s dream of The Docklands Development Corporation, to Paul Reichmann’s Olympia & York, who saw a gap in the market with the demise of tired old expensive City infrastructure and a new way finance wanted to extend their trading floors, gyms and vaulting ambition. The property crash of […]
Hayri Er/Getty Images Categories Insights Serra Balls Post author By Serra Balls Post date 21 February 2021 The smartest guys in the room? McKinsey & Company is an enormously successful 100-year-old brand which is a trusted adviser to the world’s largest companies, several of which are run by McKinsey alumni. But reputation, as someone once said, eats brand for lunch. For the last three or so years, McKinsey seems to have been putting out reputational fires from Saudi […]
Categories Insights Serra Balls Post author By Serra Balls Post date 15 November 2020 One Small Prick for Man, One Giant Leap of Trust for Mankind A combination of openness, a creative communications campaign, appeal to civic duty, and engagement on an emotional level will secure trust in the Covid vaccine. It will take a massive injection of trust to ensure a Covid-19 vaccine is accepted by the millions affected globally. As governments around the world scramble to protect residents from […] Tags featured