I love the mix of short, inspiring or just plain engaging talks giving you a peep of other people’s lives and viewpoints. Just heard it is coming to Portsmouth on 2nd March, one of our client’s Sarah Fenwick told me about it – she’s giving one of the talks. We like to call her Sarah the fearless, a real life adrenaline junkie, paragliding gold medalist, wing walker, and psychologist she really walks the talk so we are really looking forward to hearing about her perspective.

The day’s about Developing Human Potential and we should be in for a treat with 10 fabulous confirmed speakers so far, see more details here

To celebrate the building’s recent renovation, we sprinkled some futurestech creativity to uplift their website as well as building in that all-important social networking platform….

One of the most inspiring things is to see artists at work, as a team, blending experience and passion to produce work that moves the soul. Creativity is the seed that often creates great business. Indeed, creativity is the driving force behind many of our clients success stories.

So, here is something to finish the week with. A group of artists jamming together live. The musicianship, experience and passion of Daryl Hall, Chromeo and band really does stand out. See if you can spot the difference.

So, as the weekend beckons, we shall reflect on what we can do to bring the same fire, energy and drive to help our clients succeed : )

That means we are on the look-out for great talent to join us. Right now, we want to hire a Campaign Manager to join us in our inspiring New Forest studio.

Think you may be up to the role? Curious on what futurestech could offer? Click here to download the job spec! Campaign Manager

Postscript: We have now hired a great Campaign Manager, welcome to the team DM! More info when she joins shortly, however, she will be an amazing addition to our team! Thanks to the huge number of people who applied…

On second thought, don’t read the newspaper.

It’s amazing – the newspapers would have it that financial catastrophe is just around the corner. Nicolas Sarkozy has been spreading the ‘good news’, quickly followed by Angela Merkel and David Cameron.

Well, we have chosen to unsubscribe : )

The first thing is that the economy will undoubtedly be challenging. How could it not be? The banks need more money and nations need to reduce debt. It is the ultimate noughties hangover. But does that mean our nation will implode?

Unlikely.

People forget that marginal recession is, whilst contraction, not the disaster that it is made out to be. It is indeed a problem for the Government, who depend on growth to finance the wopping debt they have created. But for us, it generally means a little less money in our pockets, a little tighter of the belt.

But life goes on. And indeed, for many companies, business has never been better. It seems we have a 2-speed economy. There is the Government (and the Civil Service), and there is the Private Sector. And one is doing a tad better than the other…

So, we will be starting 2012 having unsubscribed to the media hype.

But what does 2012 hold we wonder?

Well for futurestech, we will be busy. Super busy indeed. Our client list has grown by almost fourfold and so thus has our team. We are stretching our creative legs with projects that take us into the heavy world of technology. And social networking. And lots of creative stuff to help our clients stand out a little.

It’s a positive start to 2012. But more than work, we aim to stretch our minds a little. Here is a talk that challenges our thinking that we are in control of our decisions. Up to now, we thought so, but after watching this…

Having built a modern, flexible and significant manufacturing capaibility, the team wanted to refresh their web presence to reflect their increasing market presence.

A key element of the brief was to modernise the brand, yet also to ensure that it remained consistent with their heritage.

The //futurestech team created new images through on-site photography and developed the web-copy to reflect the brand identity. In particular, a number of themes were developed to highlight the key strengths of ENL.

The corporate logos were refined and the new website brought together with a modern open-source platform that integrated multi-language capability.

With over 19,000 amputees served over a twenty year period, the management team wanted to refresh their website to reflect the variety of clients they engage with.

In addition, the team wanted to integrate social networking within their marketing mix to allow a much simpler mechanism for clients and clinicians to share their often amazing stories.

The //futurestech team developed a brief that simplified their previous web presence, yet at the same time to engage modern tools such as open-source web platforms and visual tools such as jQuery using JavaScript Libraries. The new site was designed with a comprehensive search engine optimisation program integrated into the program.

The result was a clean, modern and engaging website that will evolve over coming months to integrate more new products and to allow greater visualisation of the social networking tools such as Twitter and Facebook.

Type A believes: -

…in hiring a ‘steady pairs of hands’.
…that one should look for a steady, incremental career progression.
…that a good degree and university is the foundation for a solid blue-chip career.
…that steady loyalty is more important than dynamism…
…that people are replaceable. It is the organisation that matters, not the individual.

Type B believes: -

…that talent is the bedrock of innovation.
…that it is talent that makes the difference between stellar organisations and mediocrity.
…that talent rocks!
…that individuals make a (massive) difference.

Here is an article by one of the Harvard Business Review contributors that nicely sums up our thoughts. That talent. Matters.

Whilst your enjoying the read, here’s some inter-stellar talent of a different kind.

Check out the moves!