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Structuring strategic storytelling

People always look fairly perplexed when you say your job is a planner in an Ad agency. After the standard “Is it just like Mad Men?” questions are answered, it’s a hard role to articulate. In many ways we are storytellers; we understand the stories of people, we tell…


Different Schools of Strategy

You might think there’s only one school of strategy that counts — this here School of Planning. But as it turns out, we are large, we contain multitudes.

Within one School of Planning, there are almost as many schools of thought as there are…


Creative development: How to build and not destroy — The Creative’s View

At the latest Open Strategy event, we had three speakers tackle the topic of creative development, focusing on how planners should build ideas rather than destroy them. VCCP’s Deputy ECD, Jim Thornton…