

AMSR: New sources of strategic inspiration from the past
AMSR: The Archive of Market and Social Research is a resource that you and your competitors may not have discovered yet. It's a not for
APG
Aug 21, 20191 min read


We are sad to announce the death of Judie Lannon
Judie was known as one of the 'godmothers' of account planning and she stayed involved with the industry and with planners until nea
APG
Aug 6, 20191 min read


How do you keep strategy interesting?
The question also has several interdependent strands: How do you stay interested and engaged in this most nebulous of ‘professions’? How do
APG
May 23, 20198 min read


How to Win an APG Award
As I am eminently unqualified to advise you how to win Gold, I will instead recount the advice from this week’s ‘How To Win 2’ event featuri
Marie Maurer
Mar 7, 20192 min read


BE BRAVE. GO LONG.
We're announcing the new Long-Term Thinking Award: A new category, for 2019 APG Creative Strategy Awards. As our world is increasingly...
APG
Feb 20, 20192 min read


APG Noisy Thinking | How do you plan?
We thought it would be bracing to start the new year with a fresh look at the basics so we began by asking 3 planners who’ve been doing...
APG
Jan 24, 20198 min read


APG 'Eat Your Greens' Book Review by Alison Hoad
I would urge anyone who is interested in how to create demand for brands in the 21st Century to read this book...
APG
Dec 11, 20181 min read


APG Strategy Conference: On the Contrary Summary of the day by Bridget Angear, Joint CSO AMV BBDO
Bridget did the impossible and drew together her thoughts about a long and intense day, with some really useful things for us to think...
APG
Oct 10, 20183 min read


RIP Charlie Robertson (1954 – 2018)
RIP Charlie Robertson (1954 – 2018) APG Chair 1990-91 I learnt with great sadness and shock that one of planning’s greatest practitioners...
APG
Oct 5, 20183 min read


How Not to Plan - A Review by Katie Mackay-Sinclair
It seems somewhat oxymoronic to write a review of a book that cautions against passion; warns us to be wary of making people think...
APG
Sep 18, 20181 min read


Thinking Around Corners - How do you make people healthier?
At Firefish we like to help people think smartly to solve tricky problems and it doesn’t get much trickier than ‘How do you make people...
APG
Aug 1, 20183 min read


How Not to Plan - A Review by Amelia Torode
It's a book that you can dip in and out of, keep it to hand as when you hit a strategic roadblock there's going to be something inside that
APG
Jul 16, 20181 min read


How Not to Plan - A Review by Richard Shotton
The book is based on Binet and Carter’s Mythbuster column for AdMap and it covers a glorious breadth of marketing topics: from objective set
APG
Jul 11, 20182 min read


How Not to Use How Not to Plan - A Review by Malcolm White
My first planning boss always skewered the ill-thought out, or the just plain wrong, with a piercing ‘bollocks’ or a ‘bullshit’, followed...
APG
Jul 5, 20182 min read


How Not to Plan - A Review by Kevin Chesters
Small confession. I was always going to like this book after the opening sentence: “To be honest, we’re not big fans of business books”....
APG
Jul 2, 20182 min read
