Using your Cranium – a Story about Identity
Cranium of Cranium inc. was a ‘game’ changer in the board game category (tee hee). They flipped every convention; distribution, ...
Culture
A white and gold dove and her more adventurous younger sibling
Challenging in Pharma – 3 Bits of Advice
Georg Toufar, CMO of Mundipharma International shares his three bits of advice for an individual looking to be a challenger ...
Enabling a Challenger Culture – 3 Bits of Advice
As mentioned in Adam’s blog post yesterday, Bite have a vibrant and ideas driven company culture. Central to this culture ...
Bite me
I’d like you to imagine you are the marketing manager of a mobile communications company. You and the CEO are ...
Giraffe Bread and what it teaches us about service
A short lesson in respecting your customers' intelligence from a 27 1/3 year old.
Stimulus & State
In the second film on meetings from Rupert Millington this week, Rupert explains the effect stimulus and ones surroundings can ...
Cake Porn
I was hurrying home one evening from a night out somewhere I can’t remember now – weaving through some of ...
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The Power of Vulnerability
I was talking last week to Elle Harrison, the author of ‘Wild Courage’. Once an Innovation Leader at Unilever, she ...
Why Productivity is the Enemy of Insight
As marketers we have, crudely speaking, two competing pressures on us. On the one hand we need to be more ...
Great Meetings: 3 Bits of Advice
Rupert Millington, founder of innovation consultancy Baby Tiger, shares three bits of advice on how to have great meetings.
Backpackers: stimulating Intelligent Naivety in a large company
Desert Island Insights
So you are a celebrity, you have a new book or album out, heck maybe you’re even running for Prime ...
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Getting Better at Failing
They say the test of a civilised society is how it treats its citizens at each end of their lives: when they are children on the one hand, and when they are old on the other. And the most interesting ...
A Business Book that Saves Lives
We talk to Michael Bungay Stanier, Senior Partner at Box of Crayons and author of 'Do more Great Work', about his new project - a book to 'End Malaria'.
Welcome Home
There’s been a lot of talk around the office about blogging at the moment with the development of the new ...
Just the right amount of fear
John Lasseter, the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation was on BBC Breakfast the other day and ...
Story Wall
Yesterday, Adam and I spent some time in the 20th Century Fox offices talking to Cameron Saunders, the MD of ...
Brand the Rainbow. Taste the Rainbow.
I absolutely love this. Skittles has been one of the most consistently interesting advertisers of the last 5 years or ...
They have a different word for everything
There’s a great gag by Steve Martin. He has just come back from France, he tells the audience. And he ...
PEMCO Insurance and their ‘Fiercely Independent’ friends
From PowerPoint to Piracy
Lynne Vandeveer talks about her experience launching Stride gum as a Challenger brand within Cadbury and explains the personal qualities, team behaviours and brand culture that helped her Pirate Withi...
Culture Club
Douglas Lamont, Director of Innovation at innocent, talks to Adam about the spirit and the success of the innocent brand and identifies some transferable learnings for our own organizations – large ...
Necessary Pirates
Gav Thompson talks about deliberately establishing giffgaff as a Challenger brand with O2 and the mutual benefit for both the Navy and the Pirate within.