thought leadership
Welcome to our blog …a space designed for Fifteen4 news, advice, commentary, storytelling, and well, how our entire team of leaders think. Here is where we keep all the content that gives you a clearer picture of who we are, what we do, how we think [about the industry we love] and the many ways to tell a brand story, without resorting to buzzwords like “data-driven paradigm shift” or “brand story.”
From Data to Disruption: The Human Side of Alchemy
Alchemy: any magical power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value; a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with...
From Data to Disruption: The Human Side of Alchemy
Alchemy: any magical power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value; a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with...
Why it’s OK to fail (as long as it’s fast)
Ryan Hall, Director of Brand Strategy, shares how and why it's OK to fail quickly: if you incorporate some relatively cheap and easy testing functions at each step, then you can validate as you go. What keeps a creative team up at night? Upcoming client meeting?...
Yes, even your B2B tech company needs a great website
Matt DeVille, VP of Digital, shares why your B2B website and digital presence validates your commitment to building a company, and why it needs to speak to users on an emotional level. Over the course of my 20-year career building digital experiences for tech...
Getting it Wrong from the Start: Four Scary Scenarios (that you can avoid)
Ryan Hall, Director of Brand Strategy, shares why a commitment to design-led thinking at the beginning of a project is key to project success. Ever had an experience where you realized your creative had gone totally off the rails? That a project turned out to be X...
Creative Managers: Changing Your Relationship to Time
To continue his Creative Managers series, Steve Smallman, CEO and co-founder, shares three suggestions for how to change your relationship to time: get in, listen carefully, and offer input to creative teams. When I first started as a creative professional, I...
Creative Managers: Stop Feeling Threatened and Start Hiring
In his Creative Managers series, Steve Smallman, CEO and co-founder, shares what it means to start hiring people that are "better" than you and why it's crucial for the success of your team. Who’s More Talented Than You? “Hire people who are more talented than you.”...
The Creative Manager’s Challenge: Moving from Doer to Enabler
To kick off his Creative Managers series, Steve Smallman, CEO and co-founder, shares why moving from creative professional to creative manager is the only way to scale yourself and your creative vision (and why you will find a lot of joy along the way). Every creative...
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