How to Think Like a Disruptive Innovator
How to Think Like a Disruptive Innovator: Surviving the Exercise in Masochism So here is the dirty little secret about being a disruptive innovator: i…
How to Think Like a Disruptive Innovator: Surviving the Exercise in Masochism So here is the dirty little secret about being a disruptive innovator: i…
When we talk of innovation, there's a common perception that people aren't particularly fond of change. They'll strive to protect the status quo as muc…
For those of us who run ideas programmes within organisations, the decision ‘to reward or not to reward’ can be a tough one. Financial reward can be a …
Background I became aware of Ashgate Hospicecare through a chance meeting with Matt Corbishley their Director of H.R. at a conference in London. Matt …
Whilst I wouldn’t want to bet my house on Peter Drucker actually saying that “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” the quote attributed to him by form…
As the large October pumpkin coloured sun gently falls to earth over the rolling Yorkshire Wolds I sit and watch in awe as a dynamic, dramatic dance pl…
Google’s recent Pixel 2 event may have been focused primarily on new product, on smartphones and laptops, but the real story was the blanket pervasiven…
Both my grandparents and in-laws grew up behind the iron curtain, and so I would regularly hear stories of the alternate reality they would be forced t…
The business literature is awash with tales of organizations (and leaders) that struggle to adapt to change. If you boil this down to its very essence…
Innovation and change is something we’re told is a good, nay even an inevitable fact of modern life. What’s more, the pace of change is said to be qui…
In general, people are terrible at forecasting. Each day we forecast a wide range of things and we get most of them wrong. In particular, companies and…
I was recently invited to speak at the HR Minds conference in Berlin. At first glimpse this didn’t seem to be a natural fit for my usual speaking topic…
One of my favorite current buzzwords is “innovation.” It’s everywhere these days: innovation sessions, innovation movements, cultures of innovation – F…
Except it’s not really is it? Where there’s innovation, there’s a cost. There’s an opportunity, sure but there’s time, people, materials, trials, man…
The pace of change in the modern world is something that has been widely reported on in recent years. Patent records reveal that the majority of innov…
The power of people energy drives employee engagement. If you were to research companies you'd find a lot of evidence about how well they perform as a…