

Multitasking for Strategists
Let's face it, who’s got time to read the ever expanding recommended reading list that planners impose on each other? And no I haven’t...
APG
Mar 7, 20163 min read


Why Don’t You?
When I were a little girl there was a programme on Saturday morning telly called “Why Don’t You?” which had a theme tune that ended “Why...
APG
Mar 2, 20163 min read


Only, connect
I’d like the theme to be about widening your field of vision and forcing yourself to connect a wider variety of seemingly disparate...
APG
Mar 1, 20162 min read


12 Interview Tips for wannabe Planners
First the bad news: getting into advertising is tough. Getting into Planning is tougher still. Not because it’s rocket science, but...
APG
Feb 25, 20168 min read


Mark Bell on 'What is a Brand Nowadays?'
I’m sorry to open by being boring or indeed obvious, but a brand nowadays is no different from when Bass registered the red triangle 130...
APG
Feb 23, 20162 min read


Dom Boyd on 'What is a Brand Nowadays?'
"Strategists need to act as brand entrepreneurs that approach their client brands as ‘software’ that is constantly evolving and updating,...
APG
Feb 17, 20162 min read


Advice to my younger self
I have some bite-size snacks of advice to serve up as appetisers to my younger self, which I won’t mind him taking or leaving, before I...
APG
Feb 16, 20163 min read


I like it when we all watch the same thing
It’s increasingly a “look at that” world and this clearly provides an opportunity for brands to be the “that”. We risk overstating this...
APG
Feb 15, 20163 min read


The first text in the IPA Diploma is Stephen King's "What is a Brand?"
It offers a salutary warning to anyone trying to think about the question that is the agenda for APG's first Noisy Thinking event of the...
APG
Feb 12, 20164 min read


A new year, a new-look APG
Hello, As new Chair of the APG, I'm filled with genuine excitement. First, because the APG is in rude health. This is in no small part...
APG
Feb 9, 20162 min read


‘Future. Now’. A new agenda for a new age
Hello As new chair of the APG I’m filled with a sense of excitement both in terms of what the APG has already achieved and the...
APG
Feb 8, 20161 min read


Provocation & Brand Reinvention
Wednesday night we attended our first APG event of 2016 held at Mintel, which promised to ‘inspire and provoke’; followed by a belated...
APG
Jan 29, 20162 min read


Think like a CSO (with Matt Willifer)
Matt’s career combines classic brand planning with cutting edge digital expertise. Matt joined BMP DBB from Oxford University in 1995 on...
APG
Jan 22, 20164 min read


Think like a CSO (with Dom Boyd)
Mintel’s ‘Think like a CSO’ offers something all-too-rare in today’s #instaculture: an opportunity for the speaker to distill...
APG
Jan 21, 20162 min read


New Skills-Based Training Programme for 2016
During the latter part of 2015 we did a review of our training to make sure that it’s giving you what you need. We asked all of our...
APG
Jan 20, 20162 min read