the problem isn’t your creative… it’s how you get your insight

The problem is not your creative……it's how you get your insight

by Andrew HO@andiho

MD FACE Asia

At Spikes Asia, September 2014

Where is the insight?

Client Creative Planner Researcher

It’s the same place where your idea ends up…

Create Insight

Creatively

Everything is worse than before

We don’t talk anymore…

Economies of sameness

We are still selling

“I have never made my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”- Big Albert E.

1. Mistaking popularity for relevancy

It’s more important

to be interesting than right

The best work came from the 7th most “relevant” insight

2. The agency is supposed to make it interesting

Not interestin

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“Brief”

Hopeful planners desk

research

Creative development

Testing

Cycle of death

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3. Everyone hates research (as we know it)

Ooh. They have Starbucks…

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Insight, strategy & creativity is everyone’s responsibility

What if we treat insight

development like creative

development?

A great insight is 50% of an idea

So why don’t we nurture them the same way?

“Brief”

Hopeful planners desk

research

Creative development

Testing

Cycle of death

Stop doing this

Listen more

Better briefs

Awesome ideas

Co-create more insights & ideas

earlier

The creative

opportunity starts here

1. Turn things

upside down and do this…

2. Brainstorm potential insights

Use wisdomProvokeAnticipateCreate insights you would want to work on

3. Insights as conversation starters

Sculpt & test for interestingness

4. Celebrate category insights as much as consumer ones

5. Remix & reframe insights

6. Interesting & interested people only

please

Be more proactive with insight, be creative…

GO LARGE: Leap into it on a new project

START SMALL: Use invented insights as a more interesting warm up in any research

CHEERSandrew.ho@facegroup.com