Understanding Your Business Stakeholders
We all strive to do work that has strategic value and to communicate our insights in ways that gain traction and make an impact. To succeed, the first essential...
Research Portfolio Workshop
(This video has been edited to protect the privacy of participants in the original session.) In this session participants learned some best practices for effective...
Talking to Stakeholders
Presenting research is more than delivering analyzed data. The value of our work as ethnographers in industry is limited by whether or not clients and stakeholders...
Shopping as a Modern Quest
PechaKucha Presentation As Ethnographic Practitioners in Industry, shopping behavior is a frequent topic of our research. We take on the role of the consumer’s...
Translating Infrastructure to Technology
I spend a lot of time thinking about mail. Actually, I don’t just think about it—I interview and observe people sending things, and it is actually more interesting...
The EPIC2015 Conversation
Every year the EPIC Board opens the published conference proceedings with a Conversation—a reflection on key ideas and passions afire at the meeting and a...
Postal Poetry: The Significance of Stamps
Postage stamps, quickly receding in usage as we tweet our voices around the world, have for nearly 200 years been key enablers of a system that links humans by physical...
Satin Island: An Appreciation
I will admit that as soon as I heard there was a newly published novel about a corporate anthropologist, I took the bait and grabbed a copy (metaphorically, of course,...
The EPIC 2014 Conversation
Download PDF From September 7 through 10, EPIC convened in New York City at Fordham University’s Manhattan campus. This year’s conference was hosted by Fordham’s...
Accelerating Collaboration with Social Tools
As more and more corporate ethnographic work is crossing international borders, we are increasingly collaborating with teams that are spread across the globe. As...
The EPIC 2012 Conversation
When we offer something to another person, community, or organization, we create the conditions for some sort of value to be created. This proposition about value...
Renewing Our Practice: Preparing the Next Generation of Practitioners
A key aspect of renewal is disciplinary renewal though the addition of new practitioners, who can bring revitalization to our practice. To successfully land their...