Talk at Interaction 15, San Francisco, reflecting on what's next. A full transcription of the talk can be found here: https://medium.com/todays-office/a-year-of-reflection-820d228d999c

1. A YEAR OF REFLECTION
JAN CHIPCHASE | INTERACTION 15 | SAN FRANCISCO
9TH FEBRUARY 2015

3. A year of reflection.
Lessions learned. Inspiration.
Thinking about the next.

4. Conversations across the design spectrum.

5. 8 Lessons & Reflections

6. 1
Understand where you are
on the learning curve.

7. THE LEARNING CURVE

8. THE LEARNING CURVE
CAN DESCRIBE
YOUR JOB

9. THE LEARNING CURVE
CAN DESCRIBE
YOUR JOB
ENOUGH PEOPLE FOR
A CONFERENCE

10. THE LEARNING CURVE
CAN DESCRIBE
YOUR JOB
ENOUGH PEOPLE FOR
A CONFERENCE
7TH YEAR OF
CONFERENCE

11. THE LEARNING CURVE
I LIVE HERE

12. THE LEARNING CURVE
I LIVE HERE

13. THE LEARNING CURVE
I HOPE TO DIE HERE

14. What does your learning
curve look like?

15. What does your learning
curve look like?
Where are you on it?

16. 2

17. 2
Longevity versus Impact.

18. 2
How relevant is the work of a creative studio:
40 years ago?
10 years ago?
3 years ago?
1 year ago?

19. 2
How relevant is the work of an individual:
40 years ago?
10 years ago?
3 years ago?
1 year ago?

20. 3

21. 3
The gutter between
consultant as change agent
and corporate sell-out is
littered with bonuses and
broken dreams.

22. SOCIAL
IMPACT
COMMERCIAL
ALIGNED WITH COMPANY
VALUES
SAY

23. COMMERCIAL
ALIGNED WITH COMPANY
VALUES
SOCIAL
IMPACT
SOCIAL
IMPACT
COMMERCIAL
ALIGNED WITH COMPANY
VALUES
DO
SAY

24. COMMERCIAL
ALIGNED WITH COMPANY
VALUES
SOCIAL
IMPACT
COMMERCIAL
AGAINST COMPANY
VALUES
SOCIAL
IMPACT
COMMERCIAL
ALIGNED WITH COMPANY
VALUES
DO
SAY

25. COMMERCIAL
ALIGNED WITH COMPANY
VALUES
SOCIAL
IMPACT
COMMERCIAL
AGAINST COMPANY
VALUES
COMMERCIAL
AGAINST
“SOCIETY”
SOCIAL
IMPACT
COMMERCIAL
ALIGNED WITH COMPANY
VALUES
DO
SAY

26. COMMERCIAL
ALIGNED WITH COMPANY
VALUES
SOCIAL
IMPACT
COMMERCIAL
AGAINST COMPANY
VALUES
COMMERCIAL
AGAINST
“SOCIETY”
SOCIAL
IMPACT
COMMERCIAL
ALIGNED WITH COMPANY
VALUES
DO
SAY
ANTI-SOCIAL
IMPACT

27. 2 : 1

28. 2 : 1AGAINST COMPANY
VALUES
OR HAS
ANTI-SOCIAL
IMPACT
SOCIAL
IMPACT

29. “feed the beast”

30. Willful blindness
to being the problem, not the solution.

31. 3

32. 4
The money you turn down,
defines you as much as the
work you take on.

33. 5
The Walk-Talk Ratio
for Social Impact

34. THE WALK/TALK RATIO
Walk
Talk

35. THE WALK/TALK RATIO
The amount of time that an
organisation spends talking about its
social impact work, versus what it
actually did on the ground.

36. THE WALK/TALK RATIO
The amount of time that an
organisation spends talking about its
social impact work, versus what it
actually did on the ground.
OBSCENE PROPORTIONS

37. THE WALK/TALK RATIO
The flow of information.

38. 6

39. 6
Learn how to design the
design experience.

40. 6
Popup Studios.

41. HONEYMOON
DEMOB HAPPY
THE DIP
HOME STRAIGHT
FINDING STRIDE
EMOTIONAL ENERGY
DECOMPRESSION

42. END EXPERIENCE
PERSONAL PEAK EXPERIENCE
EMOTIONAL ENERGY - WHAT WE REMEMBER

43. LESSON 6
Flow for teams.

44. “KILLYOURHEROES”
PROMO CODE
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45. INSPIRATION x 3

46. SCHWE

47. DOREEN LORENZO | CAT HERDER

48. CARA SILVER | GOOGLE X

49. 7
Creative innovation
consultancies are inherently
risk averse.

50. APPETITE FOR RISK HIGHLOW

51. INDIVIDUAL
APPETITE FOR RISK HIGHLOW

52. INDIVIDUAL
APPETITE FOR RISK HIGHLOW
SMALL TEAM

53. INDIVIDUAL
SMALL STUDIO
APPETITE FOR RISK HIGHLOW
SMALL TEAM

54. INDIVIDUAL
SMALL STUDIO
LARGE STUDIO
APPETITE FOR RISK HIGHLOW
SMALL TEAM

55. INDIVIDUAL
SMALL STUDIO
LARGE STUDIO
GLOBAL STUDIO NETWORK
APPETITE FOR RISK HIGHLOW
SMALL TEAM

56. INDIVIDUAL
SMALL STUDIO
LARGE STUDIO
GLOBAL STUDIO NETWORK
APPETITE FOR RISK HIGHLOW
SMALL TEAM
LARGE MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCIES

57. INDIVIDUAL
SMALL STUDIO
LARGE STUDIO
GLOBAL STUDIO NETWORK
APPETITE FOR RISK HIGHLOW
SMALL TEAM
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCIES
REPLICABILITY

58. INDIVIDUAL
SMALL STUDIO
LARGE STUDIO
GLOBAL STUDIO NETWORK
APPETITE FOR RISK HIGHLOW
SMALL TEAM
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCIES
REPLICABILITY CREATIVE EDGE

59. INDIVIDUAL
SMALL STUDIO
LARGE STUDIO
GLOBAL STUDIO NETWORK
APPETITE FOR RISK HIGHLOW
SMALL TEAM
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCIES
REPLICABILITY CREATIVE EDGE
IN-HOUSE

60. 8

61. 8
Don’t believe the hype.
Least of all your own.

67. STUDIO D

68. IxDA WORKSHOP
LAUREN SEROTA + MYSELF / STUDIO D
NICK DE LA MARE / BIG TOMORROW

69. THANK YOU

70. There are projects.
The ones that shape, mould and refine what we do,
allow us to iterate on what we know – the
operational things that help us get stuff done better,
faster, smoother.
And then there are those projects.
Those projects shape us and our team, they expand
our world view, open minds to new ways of thinking,
bring our short existence into sharp focus – they
remind us that our time on this planet is too fleeting
to devote to things that are no sooner done, than
forgotten.
Those projects make us question our beliefs, our
career goals, who we work for, who we work with,
who we want to work with, and where we want to
devote our energies for the next few years.
It’s those projects that rapidly evaporate any tolerance
for bullshit.
They remind us of what we’ve let drift, and provide a
rough hand to steer us back on track.
They are the essence of a life worked well.
Everyone has their own criteria for what makes one of
“those projects”. They can include heart-in-mouth,
will-we-or-won’t-we-make-it moments where the
cost of failure is absolute, where fear stalks and
somewhere along the line hearts leap, and tears are
shed. They generate experiences that can’t be
unlearnt, are in no danger of being forgotten.
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