Image: Kvalifik on Unsplash You don’t get to be 150 years old just by being lucky. German pump-maker Wilo is paused to celebrate its big...

Innovation matters — of course. It’s the driving force behind economic and social change and underpins our evolution as a civilised...

Image: Robert Collins on Unsplash I’ve just come back from a workshop held at the FlyingLab — a simulator/ lab/play space set up by the...

How great ideas sometimes come from following the natural flow of things….. Image: James Homans on Unsplash Sometimes it’s the simplest...

Image credit — Unsplash (This is the first in what will be a series of guest blog pieces, picking up on key themes in innovation...

The sustainability challenge. Maybe you’re a pessimist, seeing dire threats in global warming, worrying about the rate at which we’re...

How psychological safety can help foster innovation Try this. Get hold of a group of people, mostly strangers, and have them gather at...

Image: @pisarovski on Freepik It’s sometimes easy to forget that even the world’s largest companies were once start-ups. And a key ...

Innovation courses are a bit like London buses - you wait for ages and then two turn up at the same time! I’m launching my own integrated...

(Click the image to listen to the podcast) One of the few good things to come out of the current pandemic crisis has been the steady flow...

This formed part of my keynote session with Tim Minshall at the R&D Management conference last week. Their title was 'Innovation in an...

There’s a lot to like about Berlin - a city swollen with culture (anywhere that devotes a whole island to museums and galleries must...

An interview with Henry Rose Lee Variety is the spice of life - and diversity is the driver of innovation. There’s a great deal of...

There’s a wonderful computer game, originally developed back in the 1980s called ‘Elite’ – you can still find versions of it today. It...

‘With every pair of hands you get a free brain!’ This flash of the blindingly obvious underpins the growing awareness in organizations of...

(you can find the podcast version of this post here...) Metacognition. Sounds a good word and it's certainly an important one. The...

For many years Gavin McClafferty was Innovation Manager with Subsea 7, a major player in the highly specialised world of deep-sea...

An interview with Abi Taylor, Innovation manager with ELRHA’s Humanitarian Innovation Fund https://lnkd.in/eyQNbBG (Podcast version here:...

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

Or rather, the old site but looking very different. We hope you like the new layout and especially that you find the way we've tried to...