In-house Essays: Up and to the Right
The most important chart in the company shows usage and revenue plotted over time as a line. It's a very simple graph that shows how all the work we do accumulates value, and the CEO needs the line to go up and to the right. The in-house team must contribute to that line moving in the right direction using creativity.
In-house Essays: The Ego Adjustment
When creative professionals change industry environment, we need to adapt how we work, not what we make. When that change doesn’t happen the in-house creative team can be sidelined, or in some cases I know of, retrenched.
In-house Essays: Watch Your Language
We needed to work in ways that were fit for purpose, not just comfortable or familiar. We took inspiration from our colleagues across what3words and reused language and concepts that were working for them rather than forcing them to adjust to us.
In-House Essays: Creative C-Suite
I felt it was important that a company, or any organisation, should have a Chief Creative Officer who sits next to the Chief Marketing Officer, the Chief Product Officer, or the Chief Technology Officer. If brand experience is valuable to the company, it only makes sense.