Hive Health

Right the first blog of the year for me. Time for a warming up of WordPress and the usual NY thoughts.

I have promised myself that I will find something academic to write about, but it’s sunny outside, and I have diary chunks all over the day. I feel I need some inspiration.

Those resolutions to date are;

1. Continue to fuel the agencies future growth. Slot an entire vertical into Account services. Thus far the implementations pretty much perfect. This quarter finds us slot individual talent into the team a few weeks apart allowing us to transform these newbies into New-bees with thoroughness and get this capacity up and buzzing. For us at Hive, it’s a growth focused way to start the year; people in place prior to the sales curve – a great way to stably grow the biz into 2012 and beyond whilst maintaining our focus on the awesome set of clients we are delivering with already.
2. Get on those Q1 pitches! Ian’s juggling Prezi, Powerpoint and MS Word today alone, and the new biz leaderboard is brimming with invites, chemistry meetings and requests for proposals across the management team. those deals need closing!
3. Finalise the 2012 development plans. Seriously long writing tasks for me this week. Bullets points, individual tasks, a training programme and people stuff all cover my desk currently. I need a list.
4. Diversify hivehealth.com’s blog contributors list. Encourage the great, good and bold to deliver views on us, healthcare, communications and the agency. It’s a plan; in a mice and men way!
5. Find bigger offices. Staying in Soho we kick off the task of hunting down big spaces for us all to beapart in.
6. Buy Werthers Original to share with all those wearing progressive knitwear today. Paul Smith is topping the list today and the Granddad look dominating the offices. Cardigans and cable-knit hand in hand with innovation and cool? Really?
7. Formulate a service design toolkit. It’s an area I have written about lots, done a few workshops and now its time to consolidate the learnings and structure this offer. Its out of lab stuff and into the marketplace time.
8. Get to grips with the current W1 bubble tea craze. I means what’s it all about, it’s beyond odd on a cold January afternoon.

I think that’s it for this week. I shall now hit my iCloud To Do List of blogs/ideas/rants then come back with some higher end content. To make our first week back more Open University than Fresher’s week.