My 30 day challenges – Picture Gallery

So here are all the pictures from each day of the last 30 days. One of the eight challenges I did was to take a picture and do a blog everyday.

I know that Richard Eaton, #TheAppMan, of Appware read everyday. Richard is another person, who I initially connected with via Twitter, he has visited the hub, all the way from his native Yorkshire. He’s due another visit in November and I have promised him Yorkshire Tea (Gold).

Richard will be talking at the hub at the 4Networking event on 27th November you can book here.

Thanks for your following over the 30 days and I look forward to catching up of a decent tea!!

My 30 day challenges, day 30, THE END – by Philip Dodson

Yes all 8 challenges completed 100% for every day for 30 consecutive days – YES.

I didn’t climb Everest, I did swim the channel, I didn’t run a marathon. But I do feel a real sense of achievement and it proves that many small goals, taken day by day, will lead to big results.

I wanted my last blog to be a monumental one, but given I left home at 5:40am and I got home at 22:30 – I’ve simply run out of time.

I wanted to do a collage of all the photos that I took on each of the 30 days, but that will take time, so I’ll save that for the weekend.

Today’s picture is of Krusty aka Bernie Mitchell. We had a great workshop at the hub this evening on collaboration, service design and service proto-typing from Simon & Phillippa from Redfront.

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Essentially, in a team with Karl & Bernie, we picked a random card, ours was the 8 of clubs. From this we had to come up with a service inspired by this. Then design the customer, then how we’d attract them, finishing off with a service prototype.

We came up with the After 8 gambling club in Euston, a rather seedy throw back to the 1970’s, in a basement, wait….

Our customer was Krusty, a middle aged wine bar owner in north London, who drove an old jag, was a property agent by day and liked old style clubs.

We tempted him to our club with complimentary fizzy drinks, peanuts, dancing girls and a place to gamble. At the end we made an advert, which once I have a copy, I will share. It will either be a hit or a total flop!

However, the great thing to come out of the evening is, in just 2 hours, working in collaboration, we designed a service, customer journey, fleshed out the details of the marketing and delivery, even made an advert.

So if you’re prepared to focus and be creative, then anything is possible and a lot easier and quicker than you imagine.

A great way to end my 30 days of challenges.