Good thinking is necessary for innovation. Successful innovation leads to growth. But it does not happen on its own. It requires sound strategy, helpful processes, the right skills and a creative culture.
We were asked to contribute to the Designing your day/Smarter Everyday programme from Nokia@Work. It fits in very well with what we do: at People Who Do we spend our time learning and understanding why work sucks for many people, discovering why it is magic for others and inventing ways to make it better for everyone.
We were invited to talk about productivity at a Channel 4 departmental meeting. We used it as an opportunity to launch some experiments in better ways of working.
On Friday the 26th October we took part in TEDxBrighton, it’s theme, the generation gap. Over the course of the day, attendees took part in our playful experiments, sharing their experiences on postcards and sticking them on our wall in the Ideas Lab at The Dome.
Channel 4, UBM, Post Office, Nokia, Story Things, Kings College, Somerset House, Dragonfly Film and Television, Guildhall School of Music, Bristol Media, Clearleft, Create Internet, Propellernet, Red Quadrant, Digicave, RCS, Pure 360 and University of Brighton.
Of course, we’d done many exhibits for IBM, who have been the most wonderful clients, I think, that you could imagine, because they wanted something to happen and didn’t care, didn’t make it part of it to be selling anything, you know. They felt that the value was in making better people, more educated and interested people
Ray Eames