unite or die: how agency success depends on art + science

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This was the keynote I gave at ADMA Global Forum 2013, in Sydney, Australia. I discussed reasons why agencies are struggling with creating digital ideas, and suggests methods for increasing collaboration between creatives and technologists within agencies of all kinds. (ADMA Global Forum, August 8th 2013)

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UNITE OR DIE:How agency success depends

on art + science.

HUSANI S. OAKLEY WIEDEN + KENNEDY NY

8 AUG 2013

PROLOGUE

1

The world has changed.

2

Creating work.3

Change your agency.

70% for agencies,30% for brands.

FPO FPO

Why?

“The world has changed.”ACT 1:

- J.R.R. Tolkien

We’ve gone from

Why?

Andy Grove. Robert Noyce.Gordon Moore.

That guy.

Moore’s Law.Semi-conductor density on computer chips doubles every eighteen months.

!

That’s logarithmic.

!

Wikipedia, http://husani.it/8797sdSOURCE:

Wikipedia, http://husani.it/jdj7sdSOURCE:

Singularity.com, http://husani.it/jdj7sdSOURCE:

So what?

Moore’s Law is logarithmic.

!

Technology: not just for nerds anymore.

"

The Skyscraper.

Moore’s Law is logarithmic.

!

“Well, I like to do things the old-fashioned way.”

ACT 2:

- James Bond, “Skyfall”

...and digital?

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The Internet is not television in a different box.

"

In other words

The medium is the message.

The medium affects society not only by the content, but the nature of the medium itself.

!

Change is hard.

We also need

user experience designers

analytics specialists

devops

quality assurance

Developers.

A developer makes things.

Websites, apps, physical computing, and more. A developer is not IT.

!

A good developer keeps up.

"

Details matter."

“Free your mind and your ass will follow.”

ACT 3:

- Funkadelic

Because change is hard.

Process

Technology groups should be involved on Day Two.

"

Developers should be inside the creative

department.

"

Technical leaders should be creative thinkers.

"

Make prototypes early and often.

"

Create a culture of

exploration

creatives and technologists

!

a brief !

24 hours

Have a hackathon. Invite the client."

exposure

find great work write about it !

share

Keep track of what’s happening."

enhancement

!

EYEO !

XOXO !

SXSW

"

Conferences are much more than funny acronyms.

exercise

Always be coding. Ship, ship, ship.

"

excellence

Celebrate creatives who extend their thinking, and technologists who help tell

stories.

"

“Game’s the same. Just got more fierce.”

EPILOGUE

- Slim Charles, The Wire

FOR AGENCIES:"

Use technology to enable and strengthen storytelling.

Treat developers like they’re from the future. After all, they’re the ones creating it.

Unite or die.

FOR BRANDS:"

Demand that your agency speaks the language of the now, not the then.

And when they do - listen to them.

Don’t let your internal IT groups set the rules. It’s your brand - own it.

Thanks for listening.

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