Lifestyle hacking: The question is the answer

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For modern participation brands the answer could be anything. It might resemble a shift in culture, a new service or a product innovation. And if you're going to hack into a consumer’s life and offer a meaningful solution, you need to be clear about where the gaps are. So how do you find the gaps? How can data be used to find the next white space opportunity when our lives are already overloaded with brands? The new wave of data insights, from the quantified self to predictive analytics, shouldn’t simply help refine creative solutions and take us back to the safety of the middle ground. Data should be used to take us off the map, away from the centre to the creative edges where we can find original start-points that enable true creative leaps for agencies and innovators.

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Lifestyle Hacking. The question is the answer

@chrisbaylis @benessen

James Thurber New Yorker cartoonisT

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."

The edge.org

the world question centre

1971 Conceptual art installation by James Lee

Byars

"I can answer the question, but am I bright

enough to ask it?" James Lee Byars

!“My goal is to provoke people into thinking thoughts that they normally might not

have.” !

James Lee Byars !

!“Data provokes people

into thinking thoughts that they normally might not

have.” !!

data = !

better answers

which test won?

A!!

understand how content travels

understand how content travels

$200Mmore commercial colour schemes additional

revenue !

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150%harder working media more searches

!!!

better behavioural response ! 7 x

more effective !!!

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big data, big disruption !

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140 characters. 150 data points. !

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self tracking

mind reading data!!

mind reading data!!

increasingly perceptive media !

data overloaded with opportunity !

borrow some data!

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where’s your data?

human insights and creative

leaps

Sir John Hegarty !“I’ve spent my life dealing with people who’ve got all the data in the world and yet they can’t invent anything... !To those brands that say ‘I understand you’ I say ‘Fuck off, you don’t understand me, Mind your own business, I don’t want to be understood by you. I don’t understand myself sometimes… and it can be fun.”

New cokE !A Classic Mistake

!Data should be used to

inform your thinking, not your decisions.

Predictive analytics can figure out how to land on

Mars, but not who will buy a Mars bar.!

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!Data can be superhuman. But can it ever be human?!!

Data tells us what has or is happening

Creativity shapes what will happen

how to turn data into creativity?

1. ideas evolve the way we evolved. by breeding.!!

2. raw data is an

oxymoron!!

make new connections ask the right questions to flush out the ideas

data curators!

!

data scientists!!

data curators!!

juxtapose and colliide!!

data ethnography!!

“Noise allows neurons to have a little elbow room

to dream up new ideas” rusty miller

meet the creativity machine!

!

meet the creativity machine!

!

“Creativity cannot be derived in a logical way, in

a step-by-step fashion” stephen thaler

Creative leaps!

!

What is an idea? The combination of two previously unconnected things that produce a timely and

original answer to a problem.

Thing 1 + thing 2 = an idea !

!“A human Plus a computer

beats a human or a computer every time.”

David Rogers!!

Superhuman (data) + human (creativity) = an idea !

Superhuman (data) + human (creativity) = BA live Billboards !

Superhuman (data) + human (creativity) = Rip curl watch !

Superhuman (data) + human (creativity) = sound of honda !

Superhuman (data) + human (creativity) = hit the winner !

uncomfortable data!

!

Here be Dragons

Outlier Data

“ Discomfort is the only sure sign that you are really

exploring the foggy future that lies ahead”

!MAGNUS

LINDKVIST

forgetify

Conclusion: Embrace

Uncertainty

add a little noise

and keep asking those

questions

Questions?

@chrisbaylis @benessen

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