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proposals

A collection of 120 issues

Mapping in Circles

After eleven years, it's time to update my London Underground concentric-circles-and-spokes map. Completely redrawn from centre to edges, it's so much better than before, and more geographically accurate than the official map. pic.twitter.com/WMd8fkdphY — Tube Map Central (@TubeMapCentral) August 6, 2024 At inception an

Single Scale Continuum

We can on occasion conjure a fiendishly evocative 2x2 of the 4-box model school to summon up a unique slant on a prospect situation which helps them then frame their options chiefly in our terms. Indeed, such tool is often a bedrock of solution selling. Such as adapting the traditional

5 Lessons For Your Next Proposal Layout From UK Party General Election 2024 Manifesto Designs

The incumbent due a thrashing. Their 80-pager featured not a single photo, chart or image. Save, if qualifies, for repeated use of full-page section divider of a fluttering part-union jack. This is the last appearance. A different take of the other side comes in seven times before. A fan of

First Steps For Change

These are @Keir_Starmer’s first steps for change 👇 — The Labour Party (@UKLabour) May 16, 2024 Oh dear. Out of the frying pan, yet shortly into the fire. Can we note anything from the framing of prospective government policy to entice that cross in our box come voting day? With

Reseeding Marginalia

When last in Kiev (now Kyiv) I got highly frustrated at all the wonderful cafes and bars that had universally dispensed with physical menus. As a tech hub of some renown and ambition in those days, they'd pretty much adopted en masse solely the QR code accessed menu.

Bombproofing Your Proposal

This is a phrase I see coming to the fore as the UK General Election looms into view, sometime later this year. Each party traditionally publishes its manifesto. I realise not all democracies exhibit such practice. It's a documented array of the policies that, if elected, they aim

Pi Day Accuracy Reminder

Did you know? NASA only uses 15 digits of π for calculating interplanetary travel. At 40 digits, you could calculate the circumference of a circle the size of the visible universe with an accuracy that'd fall off by less than the diameter of a hydrogen atom.#piDay2024 pic.

Marshmallow Primed

I saw a fascinating couple of minutes discussing the impact in later life on children from parents lying to them. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's not good. It comes from strangely one of the most refreshing ideas out of rolling news telly for yonks. Get a trio of stand-up comics

Olympic Returns Decimation

Who doesn't love rummaging around a good business case? Well... One arena where we can take plenty of pointers from on how we draw such up and pitch them, comes from so called 'mega projects'. When such emerges in the form of the mega-event in Olympian

Scripting Prop Distinction

I often get asked to read a mail, doc or Prop, ripening prior sending prospectwards. I resist that most tempting of compulsion, so do not rush into the reeds of editing another's work. One recurrent theme, seems general acknowledgement that writing your most formal language is best advised.