Showing posts with label strategy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strategy. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Friday, March 10, 2017
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

4 styles of strategy decision making

strategy styles matrix decision making

Make your prediction: which of the three styles selected the best-performing Tournament strategies?
The best-performing group: the I-don’t-knows.
More: Slow deciders make better strategists (HBR)
Monday, May 16, 2016

WPP Atticus Award Winners 2015-16

Grand Prix

Advertising

Merit
  • What Do Agencies Need to Do to Prove Their Value in the Boardrooms of Tomorrow?
    Susanna Cousins - MEC, London

  • Here Be Dragons:  Towards a New Definition of Creativity
    Mike Garner - Chemistry, Dublin

Branding And Identity
Joint Winner
  • Reframing the Role of Agencies: From Brand Builders to Brand Immunisers
    Scott Brenman - MEC, London
  • Brands That Do: Building Behavior Brands
    Susan Machtiger and Jaime Prieto - OgilvyRED, New York; Ogilvy & Mather, New York
Merit
  • A New Era in Building Great Brands for Indonesia
    Richard McLeod - Millward Brown, Jakarta
  • People Powered Brands: How Companies Can Inspire Consumer Action
    Gwen Morrison - The Store, Chicago

Digital Communications

Winner
Merit
  • The Content Marketing Sacrifice 
    Craig Rodney - Cerebra, Johannesburg
  • Does it Work?
    Shane Atchison and Jason Burby - POSSIBLE, Seattle

Media and Communications Planning

Winner
  • Apps Are the Future of Media
    Rob Norman - GroupM, New York
Merit
  • AdReaction: Video Creative in a Digital World
    Duncan Southgate, John Svendsen and Dominic Twose, with Daren Poole, Polly Wyn Jones, Joline McGoldrick, Melissa Wilson, Adriana Arriaga, Ariadna Estrada and Jorge Macias - Millward Brown Frankfurt, London, Warwick, Sydney, Toronto, Mexico City; Millward Brown Digital, Washington DC

  • Millennials: Understanding the Past, Present and Future of America’s Most Promising Generation
    Todd Metrokin - Ogilvy Public Relations, Washington DC

  • Social Media Has Revolutionized the Healthcare Industry
    Ritesh Patel - Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide

The Nature and Value of Insights

Winner
  • Question Science: Exploring the Art & Science of Designing Surveys
    Jon Puleston - Lightspeed GMI, London
Highly Commended
  • Black Friday PR Operation Impact
    Piers Guilar and Alasdair Lennox - Fitch, London
Merit
  • Chinese Millennials: New Minds in an Old World
    Tom Doctoroff - JWT, Shanghai
  • Behavioural Economics: A Healthy Perspective
    Ben Toombs with Helen Angle - TNS BMRB, London

Public Relations and Public Affairs

Winner
  • How to Pitch an Algorithm
    Peter Hirsch - OgilvyRED, New York
Merit
  • Sacred Cows and the Known Unknowns
    Peter Hirsch - OgilvyRED, New York

  • Interdependence Day: Survey & Social, Working Together to Save the UK!
    Will Goodhand, Tom Costley and Preriit Souda - TNS, London

Research Methodologies 
Winner
  • Survey Confessions: The Impact of Survey Design on Honesty
    Alexander Wheatley - Lightspeed GMI, London
Highly Commended
  • Big Metaphor: In the Age of Free Data, What is Qual For?
    William Landell Mills - TNS, London

  • Latino Cultural Value Dimensions and Their Influences in the Path-to-Purchase Model to Drive ROI: A Landmark Study 
    John Burn - Geometry Global, Chicago

Strategy

Winner
  • Know-Demand Marketing
    J. Walker Smith - The Futures Company, London
Highly Commended
  • Adaptive Marketing
    Norm Johnston - Mindshare, London
Merit
  • A Clash of Cultures
    Sonya Misquitta - Grey Group, Mumbai

Corporate

Winner
  • Blink: Making Sense of AI
    MediaCom, Global
Highly Commended
  • RP No.5: Transforming Marketing
    MEC, London
  • Finsbury Forum
    Finsbury New York

Under-30 Essay

Winners
  • Shradha Bhatia
    Landor, Mumbai
Highly Commended
  • Ivy Lu
    The Brand Union, New York
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

WPP Atticus Award Winners 2014-15

Grand Prix
    (from the Branding and Identity category)

  • Emily Fairhead-Keen
    MEC, London
    I believe the future of brands is Superhuman

Advertising

Winner
  • Alida Jansen and Lorcan McHarry
    TNS South Africa, Johannesburg; TNS Global, Cape Town
    Beating the Brain Game: Communications Success in a New Era of Neuroscience Learnings
Highly Commended
  • Tham Khai Meng with Malcom Pryce
    Ogilvy & Mather, New York
    The Ape, the Adman, and the Astronaut: Rediscovering the power of storytelling
Merit
  • Poonam Kumar
    TNS, Hyderabad
    The language of emotion

Branding And Identity
Winner
  • Emily Fairhead-Keen
    MEC, London
    I believe the future of brands is Superhuman
Highly Commended
  • Dr Sue Mizera and Alessandra Cotugno
    Young & Rubicam Group, Geneva; Y&R Europe, London
    West & East: a guide to migrating brands across the globe
Merit
  • Dr Sarah Walker with Graham Page
    Millward Brown, London; Millward Brown, Warwick
    First Impressions Count: The Power Of Instant Meaning For Brand Decisions

Digital Communications

Winner
  • Rob Norman
    GroupM, New York
    Programmatic: the risks and rewards
Highly Commended
  • Carla Hendra and Jeremy Katz
    OgilvyRED, New York; Ogilvy & Mather, New York
    The Age of Awe
Merit
  • Bob Burgoyne
    TNS Global, London
    The truth about mobiles and shopping
  • Duncan Southgate and Joline McGoldrick
    Millward Brown, Frankfurt; Millward Brown, New York
    AdReaction: Marketing in a Multiscreen World

Media and Communications Planning

Joint Winner
  • James Boardman
    MEC, Sydney
    I believe that the future of brands lies in making loving fun
  • Pete Buckley
    MEC, London
    Statistics & Flows: The creation of brand fame in the digital age
Merit
  • Victoria Cook
    Mindshare, London
    Culture Vulture, Luxury Edition 05

The Nature and Value of Insights

Highly Commended
  • Katie Hrdy with Rachel Eisenberg
    Millward Brown Digital, Boston
    Getting Mobile Right
Merit
  • Bryan Gildenberg
    Kantar Retail, Boston
    The Great Disruption
  • Ray Crook
    TNS Asia Pacific, Sydney
    To innovate, or not to innovate, that is the question

Public Relations and Public Affairs

Highly Commended
  • Michael Stopforth
    Cerebra, Johannesburg
    CATS Rule the Internet
  • Christopher Graves
    Ogilvy Public Relations, Washington DC
    5 Forces That Will Rock Your Business

Research Methodologies 
Winner
  • Alexander Wheatley
    Lightspeed GMI, London
    Open your mind to the power of the open-ended question
Merit
  • Preriit Souda
    TNS, London
    Facebook, Brands & Everything between

Strategy

Joint Winner
  • J. Walker Smith
    The Futures Company, London
    FutureView 2015 Uber All
  • Andrew Curry with Jules Peck
    The Futures Company, London
    The 21st Century Business
Highly Commended
  • Brian Fetherstonhaugh
    OgilvyOne Worldwide, New York
    Careers Rocket Fuel: how to propel your career now and for the long-haul
Merit
  • Jessica Vaughn with Marian Berelowitz
    J. Walter Thompson, New York
    The Circular Economy

Corporate

Winner
  • Mindshare, London
    Point of View 2014
Highly Commended
  • AKQA, London
    TECH.review
  • Finsbury, New York
    The Finsbury Forum
  • Landor, San Francisco
    Perspectives 2014

Under-30 Essay

Winners
  • Clare Kane 
    RKCR/Y&R, London
Highly Commended
  • Alexandra Burke
    Young & Rubicam, New York
  • Katie Chapin
    VML, London
  • Miriam Raisner
    Ogilvy Public Relations, New York
Friday, May 8, 2015
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Top Blogging for/by Planners & Strategists - December 2014

[UPDATE: Check out the top planning/strategy blogs of 2014, ranked by the number of their appearances in Top Blogging....]
Top Blogging archives: November / October / September / August/ July / June / May / April / March / February / January 2014  / December

* Posts listed chronologically. Have I missed anything good? Let me know in the comments below.
* If you have read or written something that merits inclusion in the upcoming editions of 'Top Blogging...' do ping me via twitter or e-mail.
* Follow @plannersphere20 for daily updates from the world's top 20 plannersphere blogs, along with other essential reads for Account Planners and Strategists.
Friday, December 5, 2014

Top Blogging for/by Planners & Strategists - November 2014


Top Blogging archives: October / September / August/ July / June / May / April / March / February / January 2014  / December /  November

* Prefer to read this month's top posts offline and in a conveniently bundled e-book? Head over here.You'll find instructions to mail the above collection to your Kindle, iOS or epub device.
* Posts listed chronologically. Have I missed anything good? Let me know in the comments below.
* If you have read or written something that merits inclusion in the upcoming editions of 'Top Blogging...' do ping me via twitter or e-mail.
* Follow @plannersphere20 for daily updates from the world's top 20 plannersphere blogs, along with other essential reads for Account Planners and Strategists.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Top Blogging for/by Planners & Strategists - October 2014

Top Blogging archives : September / August/ July / June / May / April / March / February / January 2014  / December /  November /  October

* Prefer to read this month's top posts offline and in a conveniently bundled e-book? Head over here.You'll find instructions to mail the above collection to your Kindle, iOS or epub device.
* Posts listed chronologically. Have I missed anything good? Let me know in the comments below.
* If you have read or written something that merits inclusion in the upcoming editions of 'Top Blogging...' do ping me via twitter or e-mail.
* Follow @plannersphere20 for daily updates from the world's top 20 plannersphere blogs, along with other essential reads for Account Planners and Strategists.

About the author:

Iqbal Mohammed is Head of Innovation & Strategy at a digital innovation agency serving the DACH and wider European markets. He is the winner of the WPP Atticus Award for Best Original Published Writing in Marketing & Communication.
You can reach him via email.