Retrospectives. An important tool for examining where you’ve been and what you’ve done. Ideally, they should provide a perfect opportunity to learn too–not just from what didn’t go so well, but also what did. Far too often, we only spend time examining the failures, not the successes. The reality is, whether things went well or not, a retrospective is an …
In the early stages of exploring a complex problem, we don’t know what we don’t know. Good experiments help us arrive at better questions, and the right questions to ask at the right time…
Workshops have become a really standard part of modern working life, and they’re certainly a big part of ours at &us. But a poorly planned workshop can be costly for so many reasons, not least if you don’t get to the outputs that you actually want to get to…
We’re big believers in experiments at &us. Experiments are great because they mean that you can learn as you go and then iterate quickly based on those learnings. But that also means that it’s important to start small by fixing your sights on a Minimum Viable Product…
Picture this. You’ve been working on your project for months and months and you’re finally presenting to a team of stakeholders to get alignment on direction, strategy, tactics, and so on. Broadly, you’ve got an agreement in the room. Great! Job done? …Not so much…
Great projects start with great briefs. In fact good briefs are essential to good work. Advertising legend David Ogilvy once said “give me the freedom of a tight brief”–he wasn’t talking about underwear, but rather about how smart constraints give focus to our imagination…
Katie is simply defined as “a phenomenal being with a seemingly endless supply of energy”…
When it helps identify the challenges at the heart of an issue. Corporate language can get in the way of defining what your actual challenge is, so one of the methods we use is a visualisation exercise…
In our series exploring the future of work, we look at inclusion. It’s both easier and more complex in a hybrid world, but with some forethought and collaboration teams and organisations can ensure everyone feels heard and included…
Humans are spectacularly bad at predicting the future and have always had to make the most of imperfect data to cast our best bets. Almost 18 months into the pandemic, this has never been more true…
