Richard Cuthbertson is Research Director and Senior Research Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK, and a Fellow of the Finland Distinguished Professor Programme at Aalto University. His research interests lie in the development of consumer societies, and their relationship to wider economic, social, and environmental issues, including the role of customer information, innovation and internationalisation in a digital world, where supply chain visibility, mass communication, and individual marketing reflect some of the challenges and opportunities of 'big data' in an increasingly interconnected world of consumers, businesses, countries, and societies.