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4A’s StratFest 2018
The study
Second annual Future of Strategy
report
Global survey of >500 planners
and strategists
Essays from expert contributors
from agencies and brands
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The state of strategy
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57% believe strategists are gaining influence within agencies
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55% believe strategists are gaining influence with their clients
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56% expect their teams to expand in the next 12 months
I think planning is suffering
hugely from clients being
uneducated on how creative
strategy and planning work.
Much of it is coming from a
stress and fear environment.
Planner
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Doing more with less
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66% say budget cuts have affected their team
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68% believe a lack of training means ‘craft skills’ under threat
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Planners need to step away from their desks
Today’s marketer is getting
comfortable with fast and
cheap at the expense of
smart. This doesn’t bode well
for the state of strategy.
Head of Planning, Canada
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The competition for strategy
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Consultancies are seen as a threat
If I’m a brand strategist, I might
work for a brand owner, a creative
agency or a consultancy, or a lead
agency or media owner, or God-
knows-what…I might be working
with creatives of an in-house
agency, or from my own agency, or
someone else’s agency.
Frank Reitgassl, Director, Brand Strategy & Creative, Mondelēz
Why can’t strategy in a
creative agency be a
revenue center?
Shekhar Deshpande, JWT
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Opportunities and threats
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Data and upstream strategy are big opportunities
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…but downstream tactics are taking too much time
The most fundamental scale on
which to judge planners is one that
runs from Grand Strategists to Ad
Tweakers. And nowadays there are
rather too many agencies whose
planners’ skills and experience are
much too near the ad-tweaking end
of the scale.
Stephen King, JWT, 30 years ago
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Skills and specialisms
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Wanted: ‘Big picture’ thinkers and inquiring minds
In summary
Feeling of optimism
Undercut by client budget cuts
Sense that planners are not
thriving in current structures
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In order to see the ‘big
picture’ planners will have to
step outside of marketing and
upskill in all areas of the
business.
Chief Strategy Officer
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of 2,000+ experienced executives
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November 1 (or be a judge!)
Get in touch:
eva.kasten@warc.com
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Get in touch
Eva Kasten
President, WARC Americas
EVA.KASTEN@WARC.COM +1 202 778 0680 2233 WISCONSIN AVE NW, SUITE 535, WASHINGTON, DC 20007, US

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