The aim of Culture 2025, The National Culture Policy, is “to put culture at the heart of our lives and develop a more collaborative approach across all sectors”. And so RIOT:Sligo has brought together Leading Thinkers and Practitioners in Economics, Planning, Arts, Community, Creative Industries, Finance and Funding, Community Wealth Building, Architecture, Climate, Identity, Policy…
Strategy starts from three basic principles: Effective strategy is created by those tasked with implementing it. Hefty strategy documents written by external experts tend to gather dust on shelves. The process of creating the strategy is more valuable than the final strategy The best strategies address very specific questions and are lean, flexible and are…
The greater part of the Culture and Creative Sector is an innovative, dynamic and commercial operation. It operates like every other business sector – just with access to less funding and fewer supports. I work with organisations to scale what they do, to pivot their business models, and to reposition them either within their industry…
Creative people in the creative industries are constantly reminded that they need to be “more businesslike , more creative and more innovative.” Usually the people doing the reminding are people with jobs who do not understand the specifics of the creative industries, have never taken a risk, and have never created anything of their own…
