email Alistair if you need the password. Have you got a pen to hand? And a piece of paper too? Ok.  Try and draw an apple. Yep, an apple. Now draw an apple again, but differently this time.  Keep going. How many times can you do so? Exercises like this show just how hard innovation …

email Alistair if you need the password. Do you have a nose for nonsense? You should do. At least according to Joseph O’Leary from Full Fact, the UK’s independent fact checking organisation. We all know misinformation is rife. Yet, interestingly, Joe told us most false claims are based on real data. So what has been …

email Alistair if you need the password. Most of the classic Tom Cruise movies have very similar plot lines. A bombshell, we know. And one that Stuart Chapman dropped when he spoke at our storytelling event.  Stuart is Category Development Manager at LEGO and discussed how LEGO uses data, insights and that Tom Cruise plot …

email Alistair if you need the password. Amelia Thorode is co-founder of The Fawnbrake Collective and has previously been named as “Planner of the Year” by Campaign Magazine. In her presentation, Amelia encouraged us to consider what is important, like really important, to us at work. And use that as our compass. What would you …

email Alistair if you need the password. Richard Shotton is up there with my most useful people to follow on Twitter (closely followed by Teddington Cheese, but don’t let that sway you). And we were fortunate enough to welcome him to the stage a few years back.  Richard discussed the pratfall effect: whereby we become …

email Alistair if you need the password. Barbara is Insights Lead of the SnackFutures team at Mondelez. Formed 12 months ago and working as a true start-up within a large corporation, they have the task of inventing the snacks of the future. From Barbara’s presentation you’ll hear about the principles and beliefs the team follows, …

email Alistair if you need the password. Anthony “Tas” Tasgal is a lecturer, strategist and author. Tas discussed how we’re running the risk of living in a DRIP world – data rich, insight poor. We need to nudge the pendulum further away from prove and a little bit more towards move. Storytelling is one way …

email Alistair if you need the password. Dom Dwight is the Marketing Director for Taylors of Harrogate, makers of Yorkshire Tea (the #1 tea brand in the UK) amongst other hot drinks. Dom explained how Taylors are hugely dependent on the Yorkshire Tea brand, but the category was, and is, in steady decline.  Dom talked …

email Alistair if you need the password. This week we have the one and only Mark Earls, aka the HERDmeister, and master of all things marketing, brand and mass behaviour. Mark explains how we shouldn’t be ashamed to use the brains of other people. Ideas that already exist are the raw materials for even better …

email Alistair if you need the password. The SuperJam seed was sown when Fraser was 14 years old and taught to make jam by his Grandma. Fraser started selling his jam at farmers markets and local shops, before borrowing his dad’s suit and eventually pitching his product to Waitrose. A few attempts later and Waitrose …