How Not to Design a Financial ‘Super App’
Financial companies need to understand their customers, their social worlds, and their relationship to money to make “super apps” work in the long term.
Putting the ‘Social’ Back in ‘Social Science’ Research
In this EPIC blog, Mikkel Krenchel makes the case for businesses to see their communities and make sense of their social worlds.
Big, Small, & Connected Brands
It's common practice for brands to assess themselves against industry competitors. But what happens when a company asks consumers to assess their brand?
Covid-19: Now is the Time to Reinvent the Sales Model in Healthcare
The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to rip the band-aid off dysfunctional healthcare systems.
The Moonshot Tech Challenge of Our Era is Context
A ReD paper based on work conducted with Facebook Reality Labs offers reflections on why context matters and how to study abstract concepts in everyday life.
Phenomena Episode 3: On Collaboration
This podcast explores which problems require interdisciplinary collaboration and how teams with radically different world views can get it right.
Phenomena Episode 2: The Truth Is Out There
This podcast explores “selection bias” by interviewing a conspiracy theory debunker and a conspiracy theorist.
Phenomena Episode 1: What is a Generation, anyway?
How should companies understand cultural signifiers in order to capture the spirit of a generation?
‘As Much As I Can’: Bringing alive the lived experience of men with HIV/AIDS
A ReD research project with leading HIV-dedicated healthcare company, ViiV, helped identify opportunities for lifesaving care and prevention.
Tools For Ethnographic Teamwork
New Danish textbook out with contribution from ReD Associates on tools for doing fieldwork in teams.
FT Adviser: Lessons From The World Of Gaming To Improve Financial Literacy
Despite an influx of poor ‘gamification’ elements in financial products, video games can offer key lessons for improving financial literacy.
ReD Associates X Alastair Phillip Wiper: Illuminating Worlds
ReD Associates collaborated with renowned photographer, Alastair Wiper, exploring our clients’ industrial landscapes.
White Paper: Helping People Heal
ReD worked with Cognizant, taking an outside-in perspective to study the phenomenon of healing.
The Moment of Clarity: Conversation with Tim Sullivan, Harvard Business Review
Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel Rasmussen, authors of The Moment of Clarity, in conversation with Tim Sullivan, editorial director of Havard Business Review. Here, Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel Rasmussen discuss the need for the human sciences to help businesses innovate in contexts of great uncertainty.
The Moment of Clarity book launch, Copenhagen
In The Moment of Clarity, Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel Rasmussen examine the business world’s assumptions about human behavior and show how these assumptions can lead businesses off track. But the authors chart a way forward.
Unlocking the Everyday: In Conversation with Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, sits with Christian Madsbjerg to talk about the explanatory limits of scientism and the models that allow us to develop a substantive understanding of human behavior.
The Complexity Trap
ReD created a short video outlining some of the major findings from our projects with Edison Energy,