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In case you missed the news, yours truly has been named as P&G's new CEO, taking over from A.G. Lafley.    Actually, it's the other David Taylor who is the real CEO…

I don't go to many or any marketing conferences anymore; they all seem too follow the same tried format of a bunch of speakers of variable quality standing on a…

"Why have Apple started dropping their 'i's' ?" asked my mate Jason last night. "iTunes has been replaced by Music and iPhoto is now just Photos." he went on. "And…

I've just read an interesting article in the HBR about "lean start-ups", thanks to a tip off from Jonathan, who was in my year at P&G. Jonathan is himself running…

I'm just back from a lovely meeting at Charlie Bigham's, the premium ready meal brand where my mate Tom is CEO. Tom and the team at Bigham's have done a…

Read some interesting tips on how to be a billionaire on a recent BA flight in their Business Life magazine. The article was based on a book called The Self-Made…

In my career as an innovation manager and brand coach, Apple has often been used as a great source of inspiration. I should also own up to personally being an…

  This is the second of two posts that look at the learning from over 500 brandgym workshops. After sharing some principles of effective workshop planning and facilitation last week,…

  Workshops seem to be nowadays at the heart of corporate way of working. Either to align teams and/or make decisions.  But to be effective, the actual workshop itself should…

I posted a couple of months ago here asking if the Apple Watch would be a hit or a miss and sat on the fence. Since then, Apple's have announced…