Burton-Taylor
International Consulting LLC
Burton-Taylor leads companies to find new opportunities, target paths of greatest reward and least resistance, and define measureable actions which enable them to excel.
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 Board member of
First State Financial Inc.
Latest Burton-Taylor News
December 10, 2011
The Economist
Thomson Reuters - Screen Test
The information company, in danger of losing its top spot, gets a new boss
IN SEVEN years as head of Reuters, Tom Glocer brought the British-based news agency from the verge of bankruptcy to a state of rude health. But he has done less well as chief executive of Thomson Reuters, the company created when Thomson, a Canadian purveyor of professional information for lawyers, accountants and others, bought Reuters in 2008. Full Story
This story, as well as all Burton-Taylor news may be accessed through the Press Room link below.
Latest
Burton-Taylor Research
November 10, 2011
China Financial Market Data/Analysis Market Share 2012 - Key Competitors
Combined
data from Burton-Taylor and Robert Agnew of Marlin & Associates
estimates China domestic vendors increasing relative share
Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a leading information and news industry market research, strategy and business consulting organization, today published a report estimating mainland China financial market data/analysis spend will reach USD745.4 million by the end of 2011.
This report, as well as all Burton-Taylor free or for purchase research, may be requested through the All Research link below.
