Why the future of Planning is Opera, Only Fans, God, and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Matt Waksmancreative.salon
Why the future of Planning is Opera, Only Fans, God, and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
If we’re going to talk about ‘the future of strategy’ then we are going to have to talk about how relegating strategy to the supply of disposable ‘insights’ and ‘propositions’ for other people’s creative processes is to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of strategy.
‘Strategy is the very human act of imagination’
The role of planning/strategy is point imagination and resources (time, people etc) in the right tasks that matter (so that they can have maximum effect). Identifying and articulating the task with imagination and rigour is at the heart of a planner’s role. It’s the art of choice and point of greatest leverage.
— W+K's Martin Weigel on our industry’
... See more“A good strategy is, in the end, a hypothesis about what will work.”
— Michael Porter
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The greatest benefit of a brand strategy based on a prediction is that it naturally spells out the business strategy . The expert patient, the third space, the future of movement – all of these predictions lay out strong parameters for the business itself.
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