Tag: Smithery

  • Oxford Residency with the Saïd Business School

    John V Willshire

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    I’m off this week to work with the Saïd Business School, part of the University of Oxford.  I have been furously packing all the bits and bobs I think I’ll need as part of the week, but there’s always a nagging feeling that there’s something left behind.  Ah well, we’ll find out soon enough. We’ve…

  • Why Making Things People Want beats Making People Want Things – #adtech_london

    John V Willshire

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    My slides from the talk from earlier today at Ad:tech 2013 in London:     It links back to some of the questions raised in the written piece from a couple of weeks ago.  It’s nearly two years since I stumbled across the phrase as a galvanising idea for the work I do with clients…

  • Sounds Like Smithery: Week 2

    John V Willshire

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    The second week of using Audioboo to capture ideas and thoughts as they occur.  I’ve decided to stop autoposting them to the blog (though it’s a nice funcationality) and just start grouping them into weekly boards like this. (part of this year’s ongoing projects, of course)

  • The Blacksmith and The Economist

    John V Willshire

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    I’d like to start, as one does, with The Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th Century. (no, don’t worry, not all of it… just a bit) The Scottish Enlightenment was an 18th Century intellectual movement, ranging across the fields of philosophy, chemistry, geology, architecture, poetry, engineering, technology, economics, sociology, medicine and history. The ideas and advances…