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Dan Hawker

Founder & Director of Consumer Business

Dan Hawker is a founder and Director of Consumer Business at Bluefin Solutions who regularly speaks at conferences and seminars on Performance Management and Developing Customer Relationships. Dan has a financially focused entrepreneurial approach and genuine curiosity for how businesses grow and succeed. With a dynamic skill set built through his career in leading consultancies, such as KPMG and Axon, Dan now works closely with manufacturing and consumer products customers, helping them to develop and drive business growth by unlocking the value of technology to meet their business goals and objectives.

Dan owns the Bluefin Voice of the Customer programme, designed to ensure customer views are sought, captured and fed back to the leadership team as a clear demonstration of Customer Focus - a Bluefin Solutions core value. His areas of interest and expertise are Performance Management, Strategy Management, Purchasing, Customer Relationship Management, Business Intelligence, building and growing a successful company from start-up to multi-million turnover.

The following list of blog entries can be refined by clicking on a category or month in the right-hand sidebar.

02 Feb 2012
Consumer Business: Invest in strategy AND achieve short term goals
categories: Consumer Products, Planning, Retail & Trade, Consumer Business

17 Jan 2012
Listening in on shopper conversations....and acting upon them
categories: Consumer Products, Retail & Trade, Social Media

05 Apr 2011
The Bluefindex April 2011 Review
categories: Business, Consumer Products, Media

23 Mar 2011
Why you can’t have separate initiatives for BPM, Trade Promotions Optimisation and IBP
categories: Consumer Products, Planning, Trade Promotions Management

25 Nov 2010
Trade promotions: competitive edge or fact of life?
categories: Consumer Products, CRM, Planning, Trade Promotions Management

23 Nov 2010
The Bluefindex - putting my money where my mouth is
categories: Business, Consumer Products, Finance

11 Nov 2010
Differing approaches to Facebook and Twitter for Consumer Products. Do you need to keep it real?
categories: Business, Consumer Products

08 Nov 2010
What levers does a company have for reducing working capital?
categories: Business Intelligence (BI), Consumer Products, Manufacturing, Procurement, Telecoms

05 Nov 2010
How can you drive up speed of execution in purchasing while increasing, not decreasing, compliance?
categories: Consumer Products, Finance, Manufacturing, Procurement, Telecoms

04 Nov 2010
Differing approaches to Global Spend Analytics
categories: Business Intelligence (BI), Consumer Products, Finance, Manufacturing, Procurement, Telecoms

20 May 2010
Tomorrow's Manufacturer - Mobile Workforce
categories: Manufacturing

20 May 2010
Tomorrow's Manufacturer - Effective Co-Innovation
categories: Manufacturing

18 Mar 2010
The Cloud Part III: Impact on vendors
categories: Business

17 Feb 2010
Tomorrow's Manufacturer
categories: Manufacturing

12 Jan 2010
The Cloud Part II: How it affects the customer
categories: Business

17 Dec 2009
Manufacturing - A 'Haynes manual' for recovery
categories: Sector Viewpoints (Manufacturing)

14 Dec 2009
The Cloud: what it is, what it isn't, and how it affects the IT sector
categories: Business

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2 days ago

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4 days ago

Non food inflation at 0% in the UK. Food inflation not much higher. #CPG and #Retail doing their bit for the recovery! #SAP #in
1 week ago

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