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John Bessant
Sep 14, 20219 min read
Sustainability-led innovation
The sustainability challenge. Maybe you’re a pessimist, seeing dire threats in global warming, worrying about the rate at which we’re...
John Bessant
Sep 2, 20216 min read
Flying high with great ideas...
How psychological safety can help foster innovation Try this. Get hold of a group of people, mostly strangers, and have them gather at...
John Bessant
Aug 12, 20211 min read
Old kids on the innovation block
Image: @pisarovski on Freepik It’s sometimes easy to forget that even the world’s largest companies were once start-ups. And a key ...
John Bessant
Aug 4, 20211 min read
Innovation courses...
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...
John Bessant
Jul 31, 202114 min read
Learning to manage innovation - a glimpse into the future
(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...
John Bessant
Jul 14, 20213 min read
Crisis innovation - another song.....
This formed part of my keynote session with Tim Minshall at the R&D Management conference last week. Their title was 'Innovation in an...
John Bessant
Jun 28, 20215 min read
Transacting innovation ideas...
There’s a lot to like about Berlin - a city swollen with culture (anywhere that devotes a whole island to museums and galleries must...
John Bessant
Jun 18, 20211 min read
Innovating with diversity
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...
John Bessant
Jun 6, 20216 min read
Mastering the craft of innovation
There’s a wonderful computer game, originally developed back in the 1980s called ‘Elite’ – you can still find versions of it today. It...
John Bessant
May 28, 20211 min read
Collaborative innovation
‘With every pair of hands you get a free brain!’ This flash of the blindingly obvious underpins the growing awareness in organizations of...
John Bessant
May 17, 20218 min read
Metacognition...
(you can find the podcast version of this post here...) Metacognition. Sounds a good word and it's certainly an important one. The...
John Bessant
May 3, 20211 min read
Diving deep for innovation...
For many years Gavin McClafferty was Innovation Manager with Subsea 7, a major player in the highly specialised world of deep-sea...
John Bessant
Apr 22, 20211 min read
Managing humanitarian innovation
An interview with Abi Taylor, Innovation manager with ELRHA’s Humanitarian Innovation Fund https://lnkd.in/eyQNbBG (Podcast version here:...
John Bessant
Apr 15, 20218 min read
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...
John Bessant
Apr 14, 20211 min read
Welcome to our new site!
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...
John Bessant
Apr 9, 20218 min read
Innovation - a question of balance
Imagine the scene. Crowds looking up, craning their necks to see against the blinding sunlight glistening in the spray. The roar of...
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
Mar 4, 20218 min read
A curious blend of innovation….
The kitchen blender has a lot to answer for. These days there are plenty of experiments with what you can cram into the jug and then...
John Bessant
Feb 24, 20211 min read
Sources of innovation – another song…
Where do innovations come from? Research suggest that there are many different sources, some working to create opportunities (‘knowledge...
John Bessant
Feb 16, 20211 min read
Connect the dots…
Connect the dots – an interview with Catharina van Delden, founder and CEO of Innosabi talking about collaborative ecosystems Podcast...
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