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Vital Perspectives

by Farrah Bostic July 20, 2011 gender

Just take a look at Mashable’s partnership with Microsoft BizSpark – you’ll find a running list of a great many start-ups and their products or services, many of them have some kind of venture capital or angel investment backing their pursuits. Lots of them are also-rans, many have no idea how or when or if [...]

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How to do lean planning

by Farrah Bostic May 23, 2011 planning

This was what I presented at #planningness last week.  The attendees were awesome – great energy, great ideas, loads of curiosity oozing out of everyone.  Thanks to everyone who indulged me, and to Mark and Claire for making it possible.

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There are no such things as “Insights”

by Farrah Bostic May 9, 2011 planning

I was recently asked to put together some “insight generation” exercises for a training workshop. This is pretty standard fare for a planning director, the person who ‘owns the insights.’ Creative briefs now often feature sections that are titled something like, “What’s the key insight?” – into which, the planner dutifully fills in some text [...]

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The Muse & The Siren

by Farrah Bostic October 16, 2010 creativity

[note: slight modifications made to the initial post at the request of my clients & colleagues. Originally posted October 2010.] There’s nothing quite like having a job that people don’t quite understand.  Especially when the people who don’t understand it work in your field, in your company, or, let’s say, on your floor. I’ve been [...]

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Big Digital Experiment

by Farrah Bostic October 7, 2010 strategy

I used to ‘do innovation’ at Hall & Partners in NYC. They decided to update their communications framework by examining how digital channels played out against it. The framework was built in 1991 by Mike Hall and I’ve always regarded it as flexible and workable and useful – because it does what a good model [...]

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