We are a diverse ‘portfolio of minds’, bringing together global brand stewards, digital tech chiefs, professors, marketers, urban designers, real estate professionals and behavioural scientists.
31st December 2024
“There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and miseries.
On such a full sea have I been afloat for over 50 years,
And so I must take the current while it still serves,
Ready to enjoy quests and ventures anew.*”
Thank you for visiting our website, however, MindFolio Ltd has decided to stop trading as of today, a very personal, yet forward-looking decision. It is also an apt moment to thank our many customers, colleagues and friends once more for believing in us.
Karl J. Kalcher
Global CEO careers with Clarks Shoes (UK), ecco (DK), LEGO (DK) and Founder of MindFolio (UK / USA)
“We have just won a million dollar contract for a high-end research project into US shopping malls, but we don’t know much about retail. We’d love you to help us. Could you?”.
Thus started a conversation during a lunch break at an Advisory Board meeting at the Economics Ministry in Vienna between a Chicago-based math science professor and our founder, Karl Kalcher.
At first, the answer was ‘no thanks’, reflecting Karl’s managerial irritation with long research reports that used many words to deliver far too little. But the epiphany came during a subsequent visit to Chicago, when confronted with the amazing insights that high-end research such as ‘Advanced Choice Analytics’ et al could provide for senior decision makers. That did it. The research critic turned into a fan and it laid the foundations for MindFolio’s raison d’etre: Solutions based on Analytics, Insights and Visioning…
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