t100 creatività apr2010
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Presentazione del minicorso “Creatività nelle PR: optional o necessità?”, parte dei Venerdì della Comunicazione di Text 100, che si è tenuto il 23 aprile 2010.TRANSCRIPT
Creative and lateral thinking in action
Milano, 23 aprile 2010
What feeds my creativity?
Is this a picture of an old woman or a young one?
Is this the face of an honest person or a liar?
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Fill in the ?s
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Clue
Lateral thinking
What is creativity? New ideas; inspiration; positivity; energy; passion;
bringing opportunity to life; life force; seeing potential not limitations…
Adds most value when it aligns with business strategy and brand
Creativity…motivates people
ensures constant improvement
makes you competitive
pays
makes you efficient and effective
Breaking a pattern: four practical techniques
1. Different perspective
2. Block, escape, drop
3. Broaden parameters
4. FutureShock
#1 Different perspectivesDifferent hats
What would Walt Disney, Richard Branson, Nelson Mandela, Bill Gates do?
Different corporate cultures
What would Nike do? Coca-Cola? McDonalds? L’Oreal?
Different sectors
How would/do the manufacturing industry approach this problem? The financial services industry? The healthcare industry?
Different disciplines
What would advertising/direct mail/research disciplines do?
#2 Block Escape Drop
Change current methods, escape from dominating idea,
drop altogether
For example:
What if we can’t write a press release about this?
What if we had to market this handset without mentioning music?
What if we had no demo handsets?
#3 Broaden parameters
Remove natural limits to thinking by broadening parameters
$ million
30 people full time
CEO visit
Double it! impact, longevity, size
#4 Future Shock
Create fantasy scenario to push thinking
Apple launches identical handset the week before
Sony Ericsson and Samsung merge
Legislation bans listening to music while walking outdoors (for safety reasons)
The Six Thinking Hats
What information do we have?
What information is missing?
What information would we like to have?
How are we going to get the information?
The White Hat = Information
The Red Hat = Feelings
Feelings
Feelings
Feelings
Feelings
Feelings
Feelings
Feelings
The Black Hat = Caution
Rules
Regulations
Limitations
The Yellow Hat = Benefits
Optimism
Feasibility
Benefits
Deliberate searching
The Green Hat = Creativity
Creative thinking
New ideas
Additional alternatives
Possibilities
Hypotheses
The Blue Hat = Managing the thinking
Process control
Agenda
Next steps
Other hats
Summaries
Conclusions
Commentary on thinking used
Decisions
A game of hatsYou Tube Video
Pass the hat please
Creativity killers
Obstacles to creativity
• Habit and routines
• Fear of making mistakes
• Beliefs
• Status quo
• Certainty
• Boredom
• Self-doubt and self criticism
• Stress
• Rational thought
• Politeness
• Fear of looking silly
• Lack of time
• Local culture (Italian vs. English vs…..)
Summary
We are all capable
Creativity is a process
Maintain a healthy mix of pragmatism and free-thinking - ideas that don’t work don’t sell…
There are few new ideas but many more twists on an old idea
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves…
(La creazione di qualcosa di nuovo non viene compiuta dall’intelletto, ma dall’istinto al gioco che viene mosso da una necessità interiore.
La mente creativa gioca con gli oggetti che ama...)
C. G. Jung
A few examples of creativity in action
“LG Mobile Italiancup” Texting Championshipthe first Italian SMS texting competition
In order to support and promote the launch of the LG mobile phones with a “Qwerty keyboard” –targeted to the teens in particular -, and convey the message that “LG Mobile has been the first to bringthe Qwerty keyboard to the masses” in order to make the “Life of Y Generation Good” (“Life’s Good” isLG’s strapline), Text 100 Italy recommended to organize an Italian “SMS texting Championship” toaward the quickest texter on the Qwerty keyboard of an LG mobile phone.
More than 9,000 people, mainly youngsters and teens, participated in the competition.The “LG Mobile Italiancup” started on October 31st and in four stop-overs it covered allItalian regions, from North to South. Four of the main CE retail chains collaborated with LGand hosted the competition stops. The participation was promoted only through word-of-mouth and PR activities – including bloggers engagement).
The final competition among the semi-finalists (who had won the local competitions in theretail shops around Italy) was organized in Milan, in a well known club called LimeLight, onDecember 10th. It was an amazing partynight for youngsters, where LG with the help of Text100 invited also partners, customers, employees and – of course – journalists. Two wellknown Italian DJs conducted the evening show, during which the finalists fought to becomethe “quickest texter in Italy”.
Coverage Results
Text 100 obtained great coverage results: 1 national TV program presented theinitiative at the end of October, and 5 TV channel participated in the finalcompetition event night and shot interviews with the finalists, putting also theLG mobile phones in the spotlight. Lots of dailies (national and local), bloggersand radio channels covered the news throughout the competition.
Total coverage: in 40 days, we obtained over 80 print and online articles, 8broadcast (TV and radio) airings and more than 40 blog posts
The objective of the campaign: highlight Xerox expertise in document management through a dedicated website –www.cliccalastoria.it - which showcased original documents from the Italian constitution including the first drawings of the Republic’s crest.
In collaboration with the Italian Parliament Text 100 created a web site (linked to Xerox and Parliament web sites) where people can have access and download copies of fundamental Republic acts, such as original version of Constitution. This service would be of particular interests for schools and universities.
"The Cliccalastoria project represents an example of how to position Xerox in a creative way as a provider forward-looking, value added services for businesses, but also for other audiences, including young people, who can look at Xerox as a true innovator".
Rogerio P. Fangueiro, General Manager, Xerox Southern Entity, Europe
Cliccalastoria.it - Historical documents archive of the Italian RepublicText 100 Italy, Winner SABRE Awards 2007, Mediterranean
Linking with the 45° anniversary of Xerox Italy, the website shows a chronology of the most important events of Italy’s history in parallel with Xerox.
30+ articles published in Tier 1, daily, business, broadcast and online media
The project won Text 100 Italy a Sabre Award in 2007
Intel Short Movie ContestEngaging social media to promote Intel’s consumer technologies
Intel Corporation Italia has been a main sponsor of Taormina FilmFest for the last 4 years. In 2008, in order to address the consumer audience and leverage Intel Centrino 2’s “entertainment and cinema” capabilities, Text 100 Italy created and developed two projects, strictly linked to one another:
1.“Intel Short Movie Contest”: an online competition open to all Internet users and would-be “digital film directors” who want to create a short movie/videoclip; the best videoclip was awarded a prize during the Taormina FilmFest. The theme of the competition was “What is in your opinion the most important ingredient for happiness?”, with a strong link to the “Intel ingredient relevance” message (“what is the most important ingredient in a good PC?” “the Intel processor”)A specific, creative mini-website www.intelshortmovie.com was designed where people were able to find all the information to compete, upload their short movies, and vote for their favorite short movie.
The Results
• In less than 2 months, as many as 33 short movies were uploaded in the mini-website, more than15,000 people visited the Intel short movie contest website to see the short movies uploaded.
• About a hundred fans joined the “Intel Short Movie Fan group” created in Facebook, to promote the initiative.
• More than 20 bloggers wrote about/posted on the Intel short movie contest and participated in the blogger contest.
• The winning blogger (www.nikoisdifferent.net) achieved more than 2,000 unique visitors with his daily report of the main news and events of the Taormina FilmFest and was able to enjoy a great week in Taormina.
2.“Bloggers contest prize draw”; that offered the opportunity to win a week’s holiday in Taormina and become the “official blogger correspondent” of Intel for the FilmFest. The only requirement –apart from a general interest in cinema and movies - was to post a banner to promote the “Intel Short Movie Contest”.
Launch: Disney.it is landing in Italy!• Disney characters “phisically”landing
at the Airport of Milan for the new Disney.it
launch event
• TV channel crews and photographers allowed
in to take pictures and videoshootings
On top, a press event organized
in a dedicated area of the airport
Teaser “media alert” sent in
advance, to generate buzz
around this happening
Thanks!