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  • Humans In The Machine

    Despite 305 million new businesses launching worldwide each year, the gap with corporate giants is growing. The world needs more challengers and we need a new formula for change that makes enjoying the process central to lasting betterment.

  • Design for sustained growth

    Minimum Lovable Products

    "Fake it til you make it" and "Growth at all costs" have resulted in speed to market and MVPs that are often barely usable, unhelpful, and unbuyable. What are the design principles to create Minimum Lovable Products for a smart scale-up.

  • Living business ideas that drive change

    Enhancing divergent thinking

    In communications, ideas are stubbornly stuck in ad formats and content supply, yet critical and divergent thinking can ignite creativity in all aspects of business and life. How to fall in love with a problem to form living business ideas.

  • A new target-state for businesses

    Networked design strategy

    Organizations still struggle to advance digital transformation, despite the importance of the integrated network economy to growth. New target-states are needed for DT that strategically design a business to co-innovate, co-invest and collaborate.

  • Winning design for the network economy

    Collaborative design is the future

    CMOs are finding that cross-functional collaboration and centralization often yields worse yields worse revenue outcomes. Businesses need a new consensus between collaboration and independence; a playbook to create change from within.

  • Creating cultures of enthusiasm

    Entertainment is fixated by the dystopian. Unrealistic expectations of change distort perception to pessimism and fatalism. Yet a change of heart can change behavior and the world. To embrace futurism we need cultures of enthusiasm.

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Oliver Spalding is a strategic leader with more than two decades of success in agency and corporate roles. Experience spanning creative, digital, customer experience and media means knowing first-hand what creates future potential for businesses. He has delivered world-class work for key clients at Publicis Groupe and Digitas and regularly engages in keynote, panel and workshop discussions.

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