James and I are doing a short turn at the Market Research Society conference in Brighton on Thursday. We’ve got about 25mins to talk about Co-Creation Rules. Time for a quick game and about 2 slides I reckon.
Lee McEwan lists some of the other dishes on the menu.
I linked to this paper on wicked problems the other day and Chris Corrigan commented “there’s a lot in that paper eh?”. Which is true.
I’m experimenting with marketing less and listening more
Passion brands bring people together based on common interests and excitements. I’m particularly interested in ones created from the bottom up, as opposed to driven by producers concerned mainly with profit.
Just back from another extraordinary gathering at Medinge where the community that has produced Beyond Branding meets each summer. I was planning to keep this
Interesting research from Stanford suggests that exciting brands get more trusted after making mistakes and putting them right whilst more “sincere” brands start with more trust but lose it more easily. Perhaps the sensible interpretation is that second-guessing customers can be a waste of time!
Michael Hammer’s new book, The Agenda, is about the rise of customer power. But is customer-centricity really such a good model for business and society?
Thanks to Matt Tucker at Smith Associates for telling me about What Brand Are You. It strikes me that lots of companies waste money on
So the Abbey National is rebranding itself this morning. As I write this entry, they are revealing their new look, their shortened name (just “Abbey”)
The AntiBrand: blackSpot sneakers, a project by Adbusters attacks Nike directly. In doing so they take on what has become one of the great icons
We live in a world of too much marketing and too much branding. People’s faith in advertising has fallen to new lows as we simply
I like Viv’s comment on the challenge of Open Space: We are so used to being told what to do where to go and when, that when faced with a
Rob at Business Pundit points to a Forbe’s article The Slipper Solution Pick up the phone to book a flight with JetBlue and you might reach Margo Canaan at her
Evelyn posts this good quiz from the book Soul Prints by Marc Gafni. Name the five wealthiest people in the world. Name the last five winners of the Miss America
More wisdom courtesy of Chris Corrigan. I actually think that muddling through is not a correction to the conventional wisdom that stretegy and planning is the way to go. Muddling
