Category: Weeknotes

Achievements this week included: - inspiration at the Profinda workshop... - ... meeting the guys behind http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com/... - ... and listening to Richard Noble describe the thinking behind http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/ - and making process on the new project Next week: planning, and maybe a bit of F#

Achievements this week included: - great conversations with creative in a media agency - an account manager in a creative agency - our in-house PR folk - sad to hear about the imminent departure of a colleague (but very pleased for what he's going on to do) Next week: conversations continue

Achievements this week included: - a great day hosting a couple of my A&O colleagues on a visit to TVP - good progress made on taking the Why App? work to ISVs... - ... to enterprise customers... - ... to agencies... and beyond. - kicking off the collaboration project - and a good leadership team … Continue reading Weeknote 137: question time

Achievements this week included: - first draft of the explanation of the accelerated workshop approach - continued planning for the session with the IPA in April, corralling internal resources - kicked off some work on improving collaboration within the team (I've been here before...) - a fair bit of Research Now-inspired blogging - first pass … Continue reading Weeknote 136: forging alliances

Achievements this week included: - great fun hosting the Research Now event in Shoreditch - positive presentations with a big bank's marketing team - a fun reprise of the analogy story for our own marketers - and the beginnings of a solid framework for the Why App workshops Next week: ping pong

Achievements this week included: - great session with Great North Run organisers - prep for next week's Research Now event - and for a talk on analogy to our marketers - first week of hot desking Next week: research now is now...

Achievements this week included: - successful sessions at The Partners to look at some ways of working together - picking up some interesting work on a luxury product launch happening in the spring - an onsite offsite session with the leadership team to look at strategic trends - potential engagements with a car company... - … Continue reading Weeknote 133: by Royal appointment

Achievements this week included: - delivering a succinct summary of the Agency opportunity to the chap from corp who organises stuff - making connections within the Global Advertising team on some projects they're working on - surviving the final stages of the Mid Year Review process - a last lunch with @andrewdotcom before he disappears … Continue reading Weeknote 132: slow blogging

At home, in the cold, with a cold... Next week: hopefully warmer.

Achievements this week included: - planning on a cross-subsidiary Win8 training programme on the When to App content - developing a workshop to run with folk from the organisers of fairly major UK sporting events - work with the partner account manager of one of the big consulting firms to see how we can help … Continue reading Weeknote 130: consulting