Burton-Taylor
International Consulting LLC
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Douglas B Taylor is founder and Managing
Partner of Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a business
consulting organization created in 2006 and focused on helping
information, news, software and financial services companies improve
performance through improved
Market
Intelligence (Sector or Customer Research),
Strategic Planning (BU/Company or
Service/Product Strategy) and
Revenue
Generation (Marketing or Sales Plans).
Mr. Taylor entered the information & news space at
Reuters
in 1987, where he spent 15 years in North America, South America and
Europe, the last 5 of which heading Reuters news marketing and
product management globally. His team successfully redefined product
segmentation and commercial policy to, for the first time in Reuters
150 year history, profitably address financial professional, media
and consumer audiences.
After leaving Reuters, and before founding Burton-Taylor
International Consulting LLC, Mr. Taylor served as Managing
Director, Customer Segment Management, Marketing & Product
Development, for
Thomson Financial
in Asia. In that role he headed the marketing and product
development divisions, as well as the Investment Management,
Investment Banking & Research, Institutional Equities and Wealth
Management business units for the region. Mr. Taylor's teams
completed ground breaking market, competitor, customer and user
needs research, and defined a news and data strategy which is
tripling revenue in the region.
Mr. Taylor has also served as Chief Marketing Officer at
Insurance Technologies,
leading the research & strategy, communications and sales enablement
teams, serving the annuity and life software sectors and as Manager,
Partner Engagement at
Microsoft,
responsible for channel partner business strategy and relationship
management in Microsoft’s largest customer segment.
Among other publications, Mr. Taylor has been quoted as a financial
information industry expert by The Wall Street Journal, The New York
Times, The London Times, Dow Jones Newswires, Agence France-Presse
and in the biography "Mike Bloomberg; Money, Power, Politics", by
Joyce Purnick.
Mr. Taylor has 27 years financial information and services
background, carries an MBA in Marketing and Management and a BBA in
Finance from the University of Oklahoma, holds seven unique market
research and analysis trademarks, is a member of the
Society of Competitive
Intelligence Professionals (SCIP)
and is a non-Executive Board member of
First State Financial Inc.
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May 17, 2013
Il Sole 24 Ore
Offuscato Il Modello Bloomberg
Giornalismo, scoop e una rete di dati
funzionano se vangono mantenuti separati
Il sogno di Michael Bloomberg è rosa ed è una celebrità in tutti i
continenti. Un sogno scosso da uno scandalo che proprio per questo
motivo crediamo stia irritando il sindaco di New York assai più del
previsto. Avvicinare il suo nome a pratiche giornalistiche a dir poco
eterodosse rischia di allontanarlo dall'ambito frutto che siede in un
cubo nero e luccicante sulla sponda del Tamigi: il Financial Times.
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Latest
Burton-Taylor Research
April 10, 2013
Public Relations Information & Software Global
Share & Segment Sizing 2013
Burton-Taylor delivers a comprehensive, 88 page analysis of public relations information & software supplier share, demand segmentation, vendor demographics and survey results of key user expectations. The analysis is sufficiently detailed as to allow public relations information & software providers or industry analysts to clearly understand competitive positioning currently, historically, globally, regionally and within individual demand segments and to enable public relations information & software users to make better informed, more confident and more appropriate purchase decisions which could result in greater profitability.
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