Big and little data, building trust and B2B marketing - Interview with Charlie Peters of Emerson

Today’s interview is with Charlie Peters, who is Senior Executive Vice President of Emerson, a diversified global manufacturing and technology company that is working to solve the world’s most complex engineering challenges. Emerson has a market capitalisation of $45 billion, approximately 135,000 employees and 235 manufacturing locations worldwide.

Charlie is a 40+ year veteran of Emerson and his main responsibility is to develop innovative global business models that build the company’s capabilities and create added value for Emerson’s customers. Commonly known as Emerson’s “innovation guru”, this is the second time Charlie has joined me on the podcast. First time around, back in February earlier this year, he joined me to talk about: The changing world of B2B customer experience and what the future looks like. Today, Charlie joins me to talk about 'B2B versus B2C marketing’ and 'Big Data versus ‘little data’.

This interview follows on from my recent interview: Business needs to be agile and customer centric if it is to avoid the coming customerpocalypse – Interview with Alan Trefler, CEO of Pegasystems – and is number 118 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, helping businesses innovate, become more social and deliver better service.