Have you ever hit a brick wall, creatively speaking? Has your flame of inspiration dwindled, the creative heartbeat faded, or you’re simply not feeling up for the challenge? Well, we’re all human and this happens to the best of us (myself included). At Corporate Edge we refer to ourselves as ‘creative problem solvers’, so everyone, [...]

In celebration of Fast Companies’ recent guide to the most innovative companies 2013, we felt it a good moment to add the CorporateEdge top 10 to the list (in no particular order), to provide some context and perspective on which brands / businesses are making a difference to our lives right now. Kickstarter: Because starting is always [...]

Let’s do an experiment. Please watch this advert: You might be thinking something along the lines of “attractive people, vaguely satisfying product, bit of a conservation message and might save money but will very likely end up at the back of the cupboard next to my Slanket and Slap Chop.” Nothing to set the world [...]

28 Jan 13

Be Tech Free

As you may have heard, we’re trying something new at CorporateEdge to foster better communication between ourselves and with you – our clients and friends. To help us do this were switching off email every Tuesday. We call it our ‘working experiment’, and will continue to explore what (if any) impact there is in ceasing [...]

With the daily sales rate of iPhones zooming past the world’s daily birth rate, and smart device sales outstripping PC sales 4:1, it’s no surprise that the explosion of the mobile device market has changed our most basic life behaviors. There are over 650k Apple Apps (June 2012), over 430k Android Apps (April 2012) and [...]

Own a Toyota? Even if you don’t, chances are you will have heard the news that earlier this month, Toyota issued a recall for just over 7.4 million vehicles worldwide. The problem? A risk of fire when commercially available lubricant is applied to certain sticky electric window switches. It is one of the largest motor [...]

An increasingly frequent brief from clients after we complete a positioning exercise is “we just need to turn that into a Kitemark”. A quick note for readers outside the UK – the Kitemark is a product quality/standards  accreditation mark, which was originally developed in 1903 by the British Standards Institution (BSI). The Kitemark is now [...]

Waitrose, the UK’s upmarket supermarket chain, has recently announced as part of its continued roll out of its convenience store format that will adopt the ‘little Waitrose’ sub-brand name, which it has piloted at some of its initial sites. As well as Waitrose’s increasingly ambitious growth plans being eye-catching, we think that in its way [...]

As negotiations continue to agree a deal between BP and US federal and state governments, it seems appropriate to look briefly at crisis management. Rather than review the well documented challenges that BP faced in this regard during the 2010 oil spill, I want to touch on how a successfully executed crisis management strategy, driven [...]

I was recently reminiscing about my career and how things have changed since I started out 15 years ago. Back then, I was lucky to have a 14.4k modem that I could only afford to run for an hour or so a week. Now I’ve got a 40Meg permanent connection on which I can stream [...]