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The Year Ahead for Planning

Jan 11, 2016
4 min

The Year Ahead for Planning

Legend has it that George W. Bush once dismissed French business culture, by saying: “They don’t even have their own word for ‘entrepreneur’.” I sometimes wonder if the same complaint could be made, more validly, of planning culture these days. And I hope that this changes in 2016. The first planners were, of course, classic entrepreneurs. Pollitt, King and their peers burst onto the scene in the 1960s, with an iconoclastic energy characteristic of that age. They questione

Shortlist | APG 2013 Creative Strategy Awards in Association with Google

Jun 11, 2013
2 min

Shortlist | APG 2013 Creative Strategy Awards in Association with Google

So here it is: the APG shortlist for 2013. 25 papers, from 16 companies, and 8 countries outside the UK, from China to Puerto Rico. Whittled down from 131 entries (the second-highest in APG Awards history) by a jury consisting of planning’s finest brains. Covering everything from TV programming for the BBC to Health and Safety information at Siemens (yes, really). But what does the shortlist say about the state of planning these days? Well, the good news is that the best

Whoever ‘owns’ the data owns the conversation

Sep 4, 2012
6 min

Whoever ‘owns’ the data owns the conversation

The fourth in the Noisy Thinking series for the APG took the beginning of the APG's Autumn programme by storm. This event had sold out shortly after it was announced and every chair was taken – justifiably, as it turned out. Andy Nairn, CSO of Dare, Sue Unernam, CSO of Mediacom and Rory Sutherland, Vice Chair of Ogilvy took the podium. Deliberately chosen as speakers not just for their intellectual passion and leading thinking, but also for the fact that they represented diff

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