Navigating the Realities of Self-Employment
A roundtable of experienced business owners and independent practitioners share their wisdom and experiences building their own consultancies. Learn how they did...
The Long View: Collective Wisdom on Where We’ve Been and How Ethnographic Practice Evolves to the Future
The pandemic, layoffs, AI, inflation/deflation, climate change…these days there is plenty of upheaval. In times like this, it’s important to bring long views...
The Challenged Role of Ethnographic Consulting in Startup Centric Innovation
PechaKucha Presentation From a position of external consultant on user insights for a German innovation lab, I reflect on a shift in the way corporate innovation...
Ethnography as Executive Exposure – Spectacle or Higher Education?
This paper reports and reflects on a perhaps new development: A rise of projects where the ethnographic experience of clients moves to the center. With these projects,...
Close Encounter: Finding a New Rhythm for Client-Consultant Collaboration
In the current economic uncertainty ethnographic consultants are asked to intensify their client focus and to demonstrate and improve the relevancy and impact...