The IPA Strategy Group represents and works primarily for those in strategy and account planning. The main IPA contact, responsible for the administration of the Strategy Group's affairs is Emma Blackmore, Communities Assistant.
Chairman: Amelia Torode (VCCP)
"This group is the meeting of the industry's finest strategic minds, helping keep strategy a lively, potent and critical tool for brand success."
Number of vacancies on the group: 0
To apply for membership of the group or to leave a message for the Chairman, e-mail .
Remit:
The IPA Strategy Group represents and works primarily for those in strategy and account planning. Its remit is to develop and champion best practice in strategic thinking, liaise with other IPA Groups when there is a common interest, and to form alliances with appropriate external bodies with whom joint ventures or projects can be developed.
Meetings:
•Wednesday April 6th
•Wednesday May 4th
•Wednesday June 8th
•Wednesday July 6th
•Monday September 12th
•Wednesday October 5th
•Wednesday November 9th
•Wednesday December 7th
Recent achievements:
• "Game changers: Strategy - Creativity - Technology" on 13th May, 2009. Speakers included Dan Hon, co-founder of Six to Start, the award-winning entertainment production company behind the "We Tell Stories" project for Penguin Books, founder and Executive Director of digital consulting company Made by Many and Giles Andrews, co-founder of Zopa, a marketplace where people can lend and borrow money to and from each, sidestepping banks.
• "Game changers: Free" on 14th July, 2009. Speakers included Ian Clark, Managing Director of thelondonpaper, Marc Allera, Sales and Marketing Director at 3, Matt Knight, a Creative Technologist at Wieden and Kennedy and Clive Dickens, COO of Absolute Radio.
Future activities: • Development of the Fast Strategy iPhone application
• Strategy Group blog which can be found on posterous.com
• Collaboration with the Future Foundation
Every quarter, all the IPA's Committees report to
Council on their activities during the previous three months. (NB For reasons of confidentiality, commercially sensitive areas have been excluded from this website version of the original document). Consolidated, annual reports on key activities can be downloaded as Related Content from this page.