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03/10/2023

The pharma industry faces a perfect storm of challenges which makes go-to-market difficult for new product launches. Check out our thoughts on fresh ways to approach your GTM strategy in the latest from the &us blog 💡

&us have a long history of supporting clients in the pharma sector, and we’ve worked alongside our partners to explore the shifting market.

26/06/2023

When £10M isn't even the best result.

“The true value of the work lies in the culture shift that’s percolating in the background""

When we work on innovation projects with our clients, we collaborate in the work guiding our clients' teams to solve the problem and develop solutions together. This means that not only do they get to a solution, but there’s a real sense of ownership of it.

It’s also frequently the start of the revelatory journey our clients embark on, to realise the huge value that new ways of working - experimentation, test and learn, working with agility - can bring.

And that’s a much bigger win.



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Earlier this year one of our retail clients came to us, frustrated. Despite having successfully weathered the pandemic storm

19/06/2023

Retrospectives. An important tool for examining where you’ve been and what you’ve done. Ideally, they should provide a perfect opportunity to learn too–not just from what didn’t go so well, but also what did. Far too often, we only spend time examining the failures, not the successes.

The ability to quickly incorporate lessons learned from your successes and failures into future experiences is one of the most important skills in the workplace of the future.

Read our good questions to ask in a retro
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We share our experience of how a good agile retrospective can give you the confidence to be curious and provocative in order to get results.

12/06/2023

Why is experimentation important?

Experimentation is a brilliant shortcut to innovation. It’s a practical approach that helps us to start small, and learn as we go. Plus, it can help circumvent the politics and big discussions that often kill small ideas. In the latest in our ‘Good Questions’ series, find out how experiments help us arrive at better questions, and the right questions to ask at the right time.

Read our 5 questions to ask to get started.

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In the early stages of exploring a complex problem, we don’t know what we don’t know. Good experiments help us arrive at better questions, and the right questions to ask at the right time...

05/06/2023

How do you make the most out of a workshop?

Workshops have become a standard part of modern working life, but a poorly planned workshop can be costly for so many reasons, not least if you don’t get to the outputs that you actually want to get to.

Here are five questions to think about as you’re planning your workshop to make sure you get the outputs you need.

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29/05/2023

How do you decide what your MVP is? The clue is partly in the name - Minimum.
Experiments don’t have to be big, in fact often the smaller the better.
So use our questions to help guide you to what you can make for meaningful impact, no matter how small.

Read more via the link below.

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22/05/2023

Picture this. You’ve been working on your project for months and months and you’re finally presenting to a team of stakeholders to get alignment on direction, strategy, tactics, and so on. Broadly, you’ve got an agreement in the room. Great! Job done? …Not so much.

Keeping the momentum going is an ongoing task, and one of the ways to hlpe you keep moving forwards is by asking good questions about actions, barriers, accountability, responsibility, and measurement

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Picture this. You’ve been working on your project for months and months and you’re finally presenting to a team of stakeholders to get alignment on direction, strategy, tactics, and so on. Broadly, you’ve got an agreement in the room. Great! Job done? …Not so much...

15/05/2023

Asking good questions, and often, can help you find value, keep things moving, gain alignment, and so much more. Good questions create clarity, challenge assumptions, and allow teams to test the boundaries of a piece of work.

Great projects start with great briefs. In fact good briefs are essential to good work. And a great brief starts with good questions

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Great projects start with great briefs. In fact good briefs are essential to good work. Advertising legend David Ogilvy once said “give me the freedom of a tight brief”--he wasn’t talking about underwear, but rather about how smart constraints give focus to our imagination...

09/05/2023

What's the difference between potential and actual?
That's the question we helped our client find the answer to.

They owned a piece of tech, which had a lot of possibiliies for alternate uses, but whatever they selected would mean missing out on other opportunities. It was giving them bad FOMO, and left them unable to make a decision.

This constant circling around the issue it meant they weren't making any progress, or realising ANY potential at all.

We’ve helped them bring ideas to life in a real and commercial way, and they are now able to move forwards, towards an actual solution.

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We broke our client out of an endless cycle of ‘what ifs’ to translate the real customer value of a piece of technology, and narrow down the seemingly endless use-case possibilities so they can move forwards and realise the potential of their tech in new industries.

04/05/2023

Our Senior Product Designer Fiona has had a non-traditional route into design, and the variety of her experience means she brings original and fresh perspective to her work.

Read on to find out about how she supports clients through the challenges of the work, her passion for bringing life-centred thinking to her projects and how her artistic talents bring her magic both in and outside work.

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Fiona has had a non-traditional route into design, and the variety of her experience means she brings original and fresh perspective to her work. Find out what excites her about her work and how she deals with client challenges.

03/05/2023

"When a leader, even a mid-level or lower level leader, skillfully brings a voice and a vision, others will follow and surprising things can happen—even culture change on a large scale."

Innovation in organisations is generally a team sport, but it does need individuals to voice their opinions, with sustained focus and determination, to move the needle.

Just like Greta Thunberg's assertion that no one is too small to make a difference, so "A single person with a clarity of conscience and a willingness to speak up can make a difference."

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While corporate transformations are almost universally assumed to be top-down processes, in reality, middle managers, and first-line supervisors can make significant change when they have the right mindset. Dr. Tadataka Yamada was one of dozens of executives the authors spoke to over the last severa...

02/05/2023

Change can feel hard, so we’ve got some great tips from our team on the frontline of transformation to share with you.

Tip 5: Expect the unexpected, be agile.

It’s rare that Transformation goes completely as planned.
Working in an agile way helps us to build quick learning loops, making changes as necessary along the way. Change is a Journey not a destination.

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