Life at Happen is nothing if not varied. One week, we’ll be in France and Spain talking to women about constipation. Another week, we'll be with a Church of England vicar in a rural parish where our job is to get conversations going with his ‘consumers’ about their faith.

Proud to announce that Happen was awarded 'preferred supplier' status for innovation programs at Reckitt Benckiser. It is a very short list to be on.

A big honour and the challenge is all ours!

Sharing our profound disliking of small furry rodents with the best possible partner, welcoming America's #1 Mouse Killer d-CON®! Another intriguing brand and equally challenging project.

Engadget.com nicely clarifies how revolutionary the technology this past decade has been, by revealing its expert opinion on the defining gadgets from 2000-2009. That said, the leaps in the decade before were even bigger. Much bigger actually. Are we slowing down, or just getting used to this? Read the article here.

Cadbury Japan has chosen to work with Happen, we are very proud to say. After having joined Cadbury US and Europe on some very challenging projects, we really excited about this new engagement. And that's about all we'll say right now. :-)

Like many other large corporations, McDonald's is 'downscaling' its corporate identity into something more friendly. Something you feel you can trust. Exit red, in comes the green. [via VIBE]

Back to the roots for me today - presenting a lecture on strategic product development & being an entrepreneur at the Technical University of Delft where I once graduated (what feels like a century ago). The world has changed beyond recognition since I left there: no email, the internet bubble hadn't even started and Beavis & Butthead still had new episodes coming out. For the undergraduates in front of me, the world will be equally different by the time they look back like I did today.

At Happen we value our links at Oxford, particularly with the Said Business School at Oxford University, the upcoming ‘Silicon Valley comes to Oxford’ forum and Oxford Entrepreneurs. So we were delighted when we got a call from the students running The OxPrentice to come lend a hand. The OxPrentice is a series of innovative workshops that are held by Oxford Entrepreneurs designed to test participants’ core entrepreneurial skills and to prove themselves to their friends and employers.