David Weinberger points to Andrew Davidson’s entertaining Corporate Gibberish Generator.
Waterfalls and chaos
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.
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Unhurried marketing
I’m experimenting with marketing less and listening more
Passion branding
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.
Medinge Moments
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
The volatile chemistry of trust
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!
Customer-centricity: is it the answer?
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?
What brand are you?
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
Just Undo It?
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
Putting humanity into branding
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
New Abbey
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”)
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links for 2011-07-29
Don’t Pay for Ideas…Light the Fire Within | Matthew E. May Matthew May suggests paying for ideas massively reduces the number that people submit
29 July 2011
Assimilation vs Accumulation
I just got a terrific article in a facilitation e-zine, Master Facilitator Journal. Observing the overwhelming amount of stuff in the (Western) world and the glut of information we have
25 November 2003
Sharing knowledge
One of the benefits of an open approach to marketing is that it allows your own staff to create little bits of extra value for customers. A small but interesting
15 October 2006
Born Social
Keith Sawyer reports on a new book by Michale Tomasello Why We Cooperate. Studies of infants suggest that the urge to help others is innate, and not learned. Tomasello’s book
4 December 2009