There are stories we tell ourselves and our worldview is formed based on those stories. Recently, I worked with a digital and innovation team of a leading multinational corporation and one of the story the team told themselves was,
SAP the multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations stands for Suffer After Purchase. Obviously, this…
Not until you feel the problem, you feel the urge to find the right solution.
In their new book The Power of Moments Dan and Chip Heath recommend a strategy Tripping Over The Truth to make people feel the problem.
To trip over the truth is to endure an emotional wallop. When you have a sudden realization, one that you didn’t see…
America’s Got Talent is a perfect platform to witness the process of evaluating, commenting and giving feedback.
Here is a story of Luke and his experience at America’s Got Talent that teaches us something about being able to identify what stories are hidden behind the evaluations, feedback and comments we receive.
Seventeen year old Luke has earned himself a name locally as…
We’re all familiar with the idea of New Year Resolutions. However, there is nothing and absolutely nothing that says that Resolutions have to be associated with New Year alone. New Year’s; is about the fresh start and what attracts us about New Year Resolution is the fresh start of the cycle.
There are many other start of the cycles which come with…
Facts may work in a courtroom but they rarely work in marketing.
Still, amateur marketers believe that all they need to do is to recite a fact to make marketing successful.
Stats like 65,000 likes, 2 million views, 500 comments for a social media campaign rarely equate to business conversions.
If facts were enough, no one would sms whilst driving, everyone would…
I have written about telling a negative story first and then telling a positive story to motivate change.
The simple rationale behind this order of information is
Negative Story, gets attention. So, tell it first. After you have managed to get attention, you must tell a positive story to motivate the action you desire. I use this order of information in Change…
This blog is part 2 of the Insights Inform But Don’t Inspire blog. If you have not read part 1 of the blog, then I suggest you read it before you read this one.
You can read blog 1 here.
These learnings are from Brent Dykes’s article in Forbes
What can we learn from Semmelweis’ experience?
Semmelweis’ data met three key criteria …
I wrote this blog when I saw a teenager upset about a negative comment he had received on a video he had created and posted on Social Media. My default reaction was to question the teenager, ” So why are you on social media and do you think it is a good place for you to be on? ”
However, I changed…
As I am doing more and more work on Data Storytelling, I am coming across examples that are demonstrative of the fact that our ability to data storytell is still at its embryonic stages. There are simple things that we agree with in theory but fail to apply.
Here are some slides I have worked with that demonstrate my point.
Now, as…