Ten essentials for an innovator’s Christmas list… Christmas, as my 6 year old never tires of reminding me, is coming. Never mind that...

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...

The surprising innovation stories behind that sunny afternoon delight.... Season of mists, mellow fruitfulness — and those rare but...

Image: @thidarat.suteeratat on Freepik Have you ever felt the urge to kick the photocopier? Or worse? That time when you desperately...

Another innovation song....this time about open innovation. Written as part of the celebrations for Henry Chesbrough's retirement, you...

Image: @samodelkin20 on Freepik Multiple independent invention is surprisingly common — there have been many research studies...

Innovation fails — sometimes spectacularly so. It’s hard enough when that failure comes early on during the start-up phase — that...

How innovation management is changing and why we still need strategy Image: Freepik ‘Now the chips are down…..’ ‘The robots are coming….’...

Image: @macrovector on Freepik One of the huge cast of characters created by the wonderful humorous writer P. G. Wodehouse was Wilmot...

Image: @chaded on Freepik Innovation is all about knowledge spaghetti. Just like a plate of pasta innovation involves many different...

Why healthcare innovation is increasingly going to depend on the insights of patients... These days there are very few certainties but...

The suggestion box sounds like a very old approach to the challenge of high involvement innovation - how to engage the majority of...

Image: Vectorpouch on Freepik Innovation is all about uncertainty - no-one knows quite what's around the corner. So there's a limit to...

The great management writer W. Edwards Deming had a powerful introduction to his talks on quality management. Pulling out a dollar bill...

Why letting go is sometimes the hardest part of innovation History is full of examples of innovations which, despite their promise, have...

Here’s a challenge. Close your eyes and try to visualise an entrepreneur. There’s a good chance that what you’ve come up with will be...

What kinds of skills are going to be needed in organizations as they move towards an increasingly ‘phygital’ (= hybrid physical and...

The challenge of digital innovation is everywhere. It’s hard to escape the talk of ‘revolutionary impact’ or ‘digital disruption’ or the...

This is the story of the development of porcelain, a series of innovations which enabled the creation of beautiful artefacts and a global...

The development of skills and capabilities to work with innovation is becoming essential — they are no longer the province of...