Posted on July 30, 2009 by joeadamfry
Particularly for the digital agency, a website, blog or equivalent is perhaps the main touchpoint at their disposal for communicating culture to prospective clients and employees, as well as a device through which to reinforce culture internally. For example, a website can show off design skills, portfolios, clients, awards and individual creds. A blog gives [...]
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Posted on February 9, 2009 by joeadamfry
I was told this morning by one of the professors at my University that she’d used me as an example in a seminar…as ‘an organisational ethnographer who dressed appropriately to study advertising agencies and creative businesses’…and told me ‘not to be offended’. I don’t think I was; it’s a compliment in a way I suppose [...]
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Posted on February 1, 2009 by joeadamfry
“Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity”.
According to Csíkszentmihályi, flow is this state achievable in work or play, characterized by the following seven requisites:
1. One [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2009 by joeadamfry
This is a paper I’m writing at the moment. Was looking for any thoughts.
Specifically it looks at managing the Creative Process with regard to Boundaries, Ownership and Expectations. That is, ‘boundaries’ between individuals / disciplines / strategies / organisations / cultures, and the ‘boundary objects’ linking them; ‘ownership’ as in how vested individuals or organisations [...]
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