Tag: marketing
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On the application of A.I.
There’s so much breathless hype about A.I. going on right now, and so many examples of tools, prompts and ways of using it being shared that it can be difficult to separate signal from noise. The strategist in me wanted some way […]
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The Power Of Habit
Charles Duhigg from the New York Times wrote a fascinating piece in the Times magazine recently in support of his new book on habit formation (The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business). The piece focused […]
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Google Firestarters 2012
As you'll know by now I've worked with Google this year to curate a series of events designed to facilitate different thinking and debate around some of the more challenging issues facing planners and the practice of planning. The three Firestarters events […]
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Fish Food
So, I've been sending out a weekly update now for the last six months and the subscriber list has been building very nicely. It's a short curated collection of digital goodness – stuff that I've come across that week and found most […]
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Post Of The Month – December 2010 – Nominations
If you can think as far back as last year (c'mon, it was only a few days ago), it's time to nominate your favourite posts that were posted in December for Post Of The Month. As usual, I've listed a few of […]
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Emergence
I've long believed that the more rules you put around something, the more prolific the unintended and unforeseen consequences. Consequences which often result in more rules and yet more layers of complexity. In systems theory (as in nature, science and art) the […]
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Ghetto Testing
This hour long lecture by Mark Pincus, CEO of uber-successful social gaming business Zynga, and Bing Gordon, the longtime Electronic Arts creative force is somewhat rambling but contains some real gems. Pincus's view (as explained adeptly here by James) is that the […]
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Unplanning
After writing about Agile Budgeting, I stumbled serendipitously (as is the way with these things) on a Tom Fishburne post about Waterfall Planning that echoed some of the points I was making. Specifically, how crafting an annual plan is "like getting a […]