“If your organisation actually lived its values then you probably wouldn’t need to put them on a poster on the wall” I used to think this was a really cute quote. I’m used to values being something the board decrees...
I love the quarterly Dev days that SCIO puts on – an opportunity to sit down with like-minded folks and talk about the world through various systems lenses. One of the situations we explored at the last Dev day was the...
I was on the train a while back, when the conductor announced: “We apologise for the delay to this service, caused by technical difficulties arising from train allocation at Worcester Shrub Hill”. The lady with the...
Here are all the answers from our 2017 Christmas card. Turns out a lot of people found it harder than we were expecting! There are actually more than twenty four answers hidden here, and several have more than one...
We had some fun with our Christmas card this year seeing how much corporate jargon we could squeeze into a seasonal scene. You can download a printable pdf version from here to post in your office. Have fun –...
Few things in life are as satisfying as the sense of meaning – understanding what’s going on and caring about it. It’s a great feeling at an individual level, but at a group level it can change the world. As Margaret...
It’s been a couple of months since I last posted, and over the summer a number of things have shifted for me personally and for the team at Visual Meaning. Our vision as a company has always been the same: To...
I posted some thoughts on creativity over on LinkedIn last week – see here. When I ask a typical business audience whether they think of themselves as creative or uncreative, I usually get a 50:50 split. I find...
