Turbulent times are the best for innovation
The world is going through a huge crisis at the moment that impacts all of us. About 3 billion people are under lockdown around the globe. The Corona v…
The world is going through a huge crisis at the moment that impacts all of us. About 3 billion people are under lockdown around the globe. The Corona v…
The last couple of weeks have been quite eventful around the world. There’s a lot of uncertainty and even panic regarding the coronavirus, its current …
I was at an event the other day when two things happened that really spoiled my day. The first twinge of aggravation came in the big plenary session. O…
Managing innovation and transformation is hard. In the established organisation it often requires a great amount of foresight and a lot of strategic in…
In our line of work, we get to talk with hundreds of leaders around the globe, and from virtually every industry. Most of them seem to intuitively und…
My Facebook feed is filled with sponsorship asks and birthday fundraisers. I turn on the TV and there’s another telethon – I knew it was coming because…
The Personal Computer and the Internet have, without a doubt, revolutionised business in the last 25 years. For most of us, it’s now impossible to thi…
Nowhere is prioritization as important a skill as for the people at the very top of an organization. Most good executives are very conscious of how the…
What will tomorrow bring? I am a fan of Peter Hinssen. His “The network always wins” is brilliant. The key message from that book is clock speed. In h…
Getting the best out of your idea management system (IMS) requires some planning and know-how, and a well thought through approach will definitely yiel…
Innovation seems to be one of those few evergreen words. It has never gone out of fashion as it is so intertwined with humankind’s development. So in t…
Sometimes even the most bizarre ideas can turn out great. Think of AirBnb and Uber, classic examples of successful business ideas that people were scep…
When I was first considering to become an entrepreneur some six years ago, I had lots of different business ideas. However, none of them just felt righ…
Some meetings go better than others, as we all know. Some time ago, I was presenting the results of a research project for a client, and was talking ab…
Get innovation rolling: discover your Wheel Inbetween In brief… The problem Everyone knows that innovation is vital, and there is lots of great publ…
In this current global market, large corporate companies have seen first-hand their industries disrupted by innovative startups. Startups that bring ne…
This article is based on a talk I gave at Bristech in December 2018: ‘Talking Tech: the Art and Science of Communicating Complex Ideas’. By all accoun…
If you hang out with dreamers and innovators for any length of time, you hear about Edison’s 1000 failures. There are countless anecdotes about the yea…
We really do have this compelling need to have a new cycle of innovation design. A more integrated solution that takes our understanding of innovation …
Years ago, I remember reading a short story in which a barrister (I think it was Rumpole of the Bailey) successfully defended a driver charged with dan…