Jon Stead

speaker

382 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

Jon Stead’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Unlocking Value · Part 2: Jon Stead – Nobody's Paying for the Slides Anymore · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

I think that sort of inference analysis, collecting structured and unstructured data and coming up with some sort of pattern recognition on the back of it

I think that is becoming more commoditized.

But for me and for us as a buyer of services, I think what the hardest bit is no longer the analysis to find out what the answer is.

It's turning that answer into an actual delivered outcome that moves the business forward.

And for me, that gets into the messier bit around change, people, culture, transformation.

I think it's one thing to be able to

say what you think the answer is going to be, but it's a completely different thing to actually bring that into practice.

So as I think about our work with consulting firms, I think the finish line can no longer be a glossy PDF of recommendations that we need to go and do.

That's much earlier on in the engagement.

To me, you should be able to get that pretty quickly.

based on analysis interview for whatever it is ai is your friend then but but the value is for me is whether robert hits the road of actually delivery to get through into outcomes because that that's always the hardest bit and it's you see a good book about it with ai a lot of the time technology is not necessarily the hard bit it's the people that deliver the change and i think that definitely resonates with us in terms of our experience of how we've been thinking about bringing in consulting firms or not over the last six twelve months

Yeah, no, definitely do.

So two things I call out on that.

So we're definitely hearing the client to do more themselves.

And my example is perfect about rather than thinking, oh, gosh, wouldn't be fantastic to have.

you know, 30 primary research calls done the informed positioning.

We've got that data and we've got a lot.

So we can get there pretty quickly to some extent on that.

So we're seeing that quite consistently.

Clients are doing more themselves.

Showing 101–120 of 382 · page 6 of 20