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
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
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”)
My mate VIv really struck a chord with me today: Everybody’s afraid. Of something. The future. The past. Our capability or inability; the voice in our head that says yes
I had coffee with Nathalie McDermott yesterday. She’s up to all kinds of good stuff helping create connections for people easily squeezed out of public conversations. She made a terrific
Jeff Risley quotes Robert Fulghum in his book Maybe maybe not: “I do not believe that the meaning of life is a puzzle to be solved. Life is. I am.
This year’s Applied Improv conference has a theme of Embracing the Unexpected. Which is kind of handy as the original venue has suddenly become strike-bound. At five days’ notice, the
