email Alistair if you need the password. Jimmy’s Iced Coffee flicked on the afterburner and went from 0 to 1 PP5S in the space of 9 years. (PP5S = Products sold per 5 seconds. Obviously 😉) That’s quite the decade. And, this week in the dōjō, we have their head of creative, Nick Waring, talking …

email Alistair if you need the password. Tom Chatfield was an inbox emptier.  He would work through and empty it by either deleting, ignoring or replying to emails. That, ultimately, was what he did every day. And in the process of emptying his own inbox, he would fill up everyone else’s. It was a self-perpetuating …

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 …