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How to design a white elephant

How to design a white elephant

By Chris Evans on January 27, 2011

The British love a good White Elephant. It has only been a decade since the creation of the Millenium Dome, which cost over a billion dollars, and was swiftly known as one of the biggest flops in public spending history (although it has drastically improved in its current incarnation). Only a couple of years after [...]

Posted in Living, Socialising Tagged capital investment, design, design process, engagement Leave a response

The Client Is Always Right: The Importance of Engagement

The Client Is Always Right: The Importance of Engagement

By Tom Weaver on August 27, 2010

Earlier this week, we posted an article about five local or global organisations that had redefined the customer experience, from a cinema chain to a grocery store. A number of people subsequently contacted us to ask whether we had seen the BBC series Mary Queen of Shops, and whether it was similar to the work [...]

Posted in Shopping Tagged customer experience, design, design process, engagement, retail strategy 3 Responses

Is it time to replant your vision?

Is it time to replant your vision?

By Tom Weaver on August 16, 2010

In 1993, IBM appointed a new CEO, Lou Gerstner, at a time when IBM had moved from being the dominant technology market player in the 1960s to a dangerously uncompetitive and unprofitable company during the late 1980s. As breakups were proposed, Gestner took the reins and almost immediately provoked worldwide attention when he famously told [...]

Posted in Working Tagged culture, engagement, organisations, people, vision 4 Responses

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