Platforms are not a new idea. Over a hundred years ago Messrs Sears and Roebuck pioneered a business to enable remote shopping, using...

Next time it starts to rain and you reach for your folding umbrella spare a thought for Slawa Duldig. She was the Viennese sculptress...

Video of recent presentation and discussion….. Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook...

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...

Fascinating conversation around this theme and how organizations might extend their innovation processes in the light of lessons learned...

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...

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...

Meet a remarkable woman.   Lisa Crites, an American broadcast journalist was 42 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.  Following a...

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...

‘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...

Image- charlietanksley ‘Listen to the voice of the customer’ – pretty clear advice delivered in thousands of business classes all around...

Innovation practice makes perfect? I’ve just returned from the ISPIM conference in Stockholm where around 500 people spent several days...

‘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...

New paper reviewing current innovation management challenges… Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share...

A closer look at one of the strange paradoxes in managing innovation…. Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click...

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...

… organizations which have survived and grown through innovation for over a century Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new...

…. the importance of incremental innovation Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens...

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...

Innovation matters – but so too does the way in which we approach organizing and managing it.  For some kinds of innovation we can use...