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
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
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.
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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New Balance
Alan Moore has a good post on New Balance which has achieved great sales without much of the marketing hype normally associated with the training shoe sector. Here’s a snippet:
16 September 2004
Improv at The Hub
I’ll be running an evening of Improv at The Hub on Tuesday October 11th hosted by The Fun Federation. Here’s how Hannah, who runs TFF, describes it… Our next session
21 September 2005
Collaboration and status
Sometimes I go searching for something in an old post and stumble on other stuff I wrote years ago. This can lead to cringes but occasionally to things I think
8 August 2010
Good and bad Improv
In the midst of a great meeting a couple of days ago with Tim Kitchin and Paul Goodison we shared a grumble about one or two client contacts who were
13 November 2003
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