Platforms for social innovation
Platforms are not a new idea. Over a hundred years ago Messrs Sears and Roebuck pioneered a business to enable remote shopping, using...
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John Bessant
Mar 27, 20211 min read
Flirting with new ideas
Next time it starts to rain and you reach for your folding umbrella spare a thought for Slawa Duldig. She was the Viennese sculptress...
John Bessant
Jul 2, 20201 min read
Innovation in times of crisis….
Video of recent presentation and discussion….. Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook...
John Bessant
Jun 17, 20208 min read
Phoenix strategies for crisis innovation
When you’re in the middle of the swamp and the alligators are snapping at your legs you can be forgiven for not giving too much precious...
John Bessant
May 28, 20201 min read
Crisis-driven innovation
Fascinating conversation around this theme and how organizations might extend their innovation processes in the light of lessons learned...
John Bessant
Mar 26, 202010 min read
Crisis-driven innovation
I first wrote this blog as the basis for a talk in the UK last year when the only thing worrying us was the ‘crisis’ of Brexit. Now...
John Bessant
Feb 23, 20208 min read
Value shifts as innovation drivers….
January is now well past and so too is an annual event. The CES (Consumer Electronics Show), one of the hottest tickets in town if you...
John Bessant
Sep 20, 20198 min read
Responsible innovation in healthcare
Meet a remarkable woman. Lisa Crites, an American broadcast journalist was 42 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Following a...
John Bessant
Jun 29, 201911 min read
Creating innovation spaces
If you’re in the innovation game you probably ought to meet Madame de Geoffrin. Anyone working at the fuzzy front end or trying to find...
John Bessant
Sep 18, 20188 min read
No man is an island…..
‘No man is an island….’ – networking matters! In his day job as Dean of St Pauls cathedral in 17th century London John Donne would have...
John Bessant
Jul 10, 20186 min read
Surprising innovation…..
Image- charlietanksley ‘Listen to the voice of the customer’ – pretty clear advice delivered in thousands of business classes all around...
John Bessant
Jul 1, 20186 min read
Getting fit for innovation….
Innovation practice makes perfect? I’ve just returned from the ISPIM conference in Stockholm where around 500 people spent several days...
John Bessant
Jun 6, 20187 min read
The power of problem exploration…..
‘Houston, we’ve had a problem here’. John Swigert’s famous words, delivered in a voice as calm and clear as the mountain air in his...
John Bessant
May 24, 20181 min read
Innovation Management Challenges: From fads to fundamentals
New paper reviewing current innovation management challenges… Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share...
John Bessant
Mar 19, 20181 min read
Revisiting the ‘not invented here’ effect….
A closer look at one of the strange paradoxes in managing innovation…. Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click...
John Bessant
Jan 9, 20181 min read
Crowdsourcing solutions for humanitarian crises
When disaster strikes we need all the creativity we can get to find new ways of innovating out of the crisis. one area where there is a...
John Bessant
Nov 6, 20171 min read
Some lessons from the ‘hundred club’ ….
… organizations which have survived and grown through innovation for over a century Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new...
John Bessant
Oct 19, 20171 min read
Sweating the small stuff
…. the importance of incremental innovation Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens...
John Bessant
Aug 15, 20171 min read
Flirting with ideas…..
The power of user-led inspiration…. Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new...
John Bessant
Jul 17, 20171 min read
Working at the innovation frontier
Innovation matters – but so too does the way in which we approach organizing and managing it. For some kinds of innovation we can use...
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