Crystallising the spirit of innovation
An interview with Hannes Erler, Strategic Director for Innovation Ecosystems, Swarovski You can listen to it here as a podcast Or watch...
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John Bessant
Jul 14, 20231 min read
Scaling innovation through value networks
There comes a time in innovation when you realise you might have taken on something a bit too big. No matter how hard you throw yourself...
John Bessant
Jun 28, 202316 min read
Cracking the innovation code
An interview with Robyn Bolton It's hard to disagree with the idea that innovation-led growth is of paramount importance, but how often...
John Bessant
Jun 13, 20232 min read
It's about time
Why keeping an eye on the clock matters in the world of innovation On 29th September 1707 a fleet of 21 ships under the command of...
John Bessant
May 20, 20232 min read
Cooking up some innovation magic
How to manage innovation spaces for impact Once upon a time there was a Brazilian entrepreneur, Antonio Jacob Renner. Who in 1912 founded...
John Bessant
Apr 25, 20231 min read
Underground innovation
We know today that smart companies who care about innovation invest in the capacity for innovation — R&D and market research, future ...
John Bessant
Apr 12, 20238 min read
Making an IMPACT
Building values-based innovation cultures for sustainable business impact Sustainability matters - of course. You'd have to be living in...
John Bessant
Mar 22, 20232 min read
A flop is not a failure
Why innovation thrives on being able to reframe Mexico City, Olympic Games, 1968. The stadium is packed, the wider world looks on via TV...
John Bessant
Mar 13, 20231 min read
Innovation - we've got it taped!
Why the old ones are (sometimes) still the good ones Close your eyes and imagine for a moment a computer room in the early days of the...
John Bessant
Feb 20, 20232 min read
An innovation love story
Another innovation song, inspired by an article in the Journal of Product Innovation Management by Frank Piller and colleagues, in...
John Bessant
Feb 2, 20231 min read
Innovating innovation
How machine learning is transforming the innovation game Machine learning has its roots back in experiments with ‘artificial ...
John Bessant
Jan 9, 20231 min read
Delivering innovation
How the history of mail order can help us think about managing innovation at scale Image: @buravleva_stock on Freepik 2022 was a record...
John Bessant
Nov 28, 20222 min read
A letter to Innovation Santa
Ten essentials for an innovator’s Christmas list… Christmas, as my 6 year old never tires of reminding me, is coming. Never mind that...
John Bessant
Oct 20, 20222 min read
Playing the innovation game
Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it….. Well, I’m not sure about the last one but someone somewhere has probably done...
John Bessant
Oct 3, 20221 min read
ice cream dreams
The surprising innovation stories behind that sunny afternoon delight.... Season of mists, mellow fruitfulness — and those rare but...
John Bessant
Sep 14, 20222 min read
Don't kick the copier...
Image: @thidarat.suteeratat on Freepik Have you ever felt the urge to kick the photocopier? Or worse? That time when you desperately...
John Bessant
Aug 10, 20222 min read
Open innovation - the musical...!
Another innovation song....this time about open innovation. Written as part of the celebrations for Henry Chesbrough's retirement, you...
John Bessant
Jul 28, 20221 min read
Two timing innovation
Image: @samodelkin20 on Freepik Multiple independent invention is surprisingly common — there have been many research studies...
John Bessant
Jul 11, 20221 min read
Scaling innovation
Innovation fails — sometimes spectacularly so. It’s hard enough when that failure comes early on during the start-up phase — that...
John Bessant
Jun 20, 20222 min read
Digital is different...
How innovation management is changing and why we still need strategy Image: Freepik ‘Now the chips are down…..’ ‘The robots are coming….’...
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