The Benefit of Doing
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin! – Horace. This quote has resonated with me for some time since reading it back in university. B…
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin! – Horace. This quote has resonated with me for some time since reading it back in university. B…
Every day the business press is full of stories about digital transformation. Like rightsizing, outsourcing, lean and other management philosophies bef…
When we walk into most large, traditional corporate organisations, the one thing they all have in common is the inability and reluctance to change; to …
Innovation is supposed to be the end product of a long, deliberate and often very expensive process. It seems almost insulting to suggest it might occ…
Being a strong supporter of Lean Startup principles, I always try to apply them to problem-solving, especially in situations of extreme uncertainty. Le…
President Kennedy’s address to the joint session of the US Congress on May 25th 1961 can be viewed as the start of the space race: “... I believe that…
"Real artists ship" was an Apple battle cry from the earliest days. Steve Jobs used it to drive his teams to understand that the best inventions needed…
I live in the Mountain West of the United States. The sheer beauty of the Rocky Mountains, the Grand Canyon and countless other natural wonders is well…
In 2016, Fidelity International launched FIL Ideas - a global ideation platform to crowdsource, you guessed it, Ideas. Its popularity was immediate and…
Many of our readers will be aware that The Future Shapers is currently crowdfunding with Crowdcube. As part of the process we support investors and po…
What is the link between singer-songwriter David Bowie, and Marillion the neo-progressive rock band of the 1980s? How does this relate to The Future Sh…
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 …
Those from a certain generation will know the backstory to the title. ‘From the rock market to the stock market’ was the ad slogan of a famous televisi…
With new and emerging technologies developing at increasing speed, how do IT suppliers and system integrators best understand how to apply these new to…
In the course of my work I read a lot of academic research, business books and professional case studies. Whether it’s Kim’s blue ocean strategy, Chri…
The 2011 Moneyball movie starring Brad Pitt as coach Billy Beane of the Oakland Athletics is probably one of the most talked about movies in the lean s…
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death." John F. Kennedy Well, I am not saying JFK d…
The world seems to get more polarised every day. In all facets of life, collectively we focus on the extremes setting up an ‘Us v. Them’ battle that is…
Each year the European Commission release an analysis of the state of research and development in the EU. Their 2017 analysis found that firms based i…
The Apollo program has been called the greatest technological achievement in human history. Apollo stimulated many areas of technology, leading to over…