Broadening the church of Open Innovation
Open Innovation is about increasing the innovation potential of firms by opening them up to new ways of working with external organisations. Whether th…
Collaboration
Occupying Terra Incognita: How Governments can shape the Future
During the 16th Century when maps of the world moved from being symbolic representations based on Christian teachings to a record of discovered land ma…
Let’s co-create, Mr Client!
With new and emerging technologies developing at increasing speed, how do IT suppliers and system integrators best understand how to apply these new to…
Innovation Launchpads – the path to connection
The path to creation is through collaboration – that’s the yoga teacher in me speaking, but it’s true and most innovators will subscribe to this perspe…
Everyday Innovation: A Morning at Fidelity
I’ve known Simon Hill for a good few years now. Earlier last year, he said he would love to hold one of his ‘Everyday Innovation’ seminars at our Fidel…
Why Science Is A Collaborative Exercise
I've written a few times recently about the importance of a free flow of people and ideas to the scientific process. For instance, one study highlight…
How to make brainstorming work for you
If two heads are better than one, as the adage goes, would not three heads be better than two and so on? If you answered yes, then you are already a p…
Sharing in a world that’s closing down
Innovation is an increasingly open and expansive endeavor, with companies not only looking outside the walls of their office for new thinking, but also…
Innovation Ecosystems – Start at Home
The key to building a well-functioning innovation ecosystem, is, as with building anything, having a solid foundation. By definition, this is where yo…
The age of the creative workspace
A creative workspace is key to innovation, accelerated problem-solving, and fostering a work culture in which creativity and collaboration thrives. Thi…
Wisdom of the Crowd – Fact or fiction?
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…
Collaboration and the power of presence in the innovation ecosystem with a Canadian flavour
Collaborating with our innovation ecosystem of leading entrepreneurs, thinkers, practitioners, innovators, and investors we assist our followers and me…
I’m not a Human Resource, I’m a Human Being!
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…
When is technology bad for innovation?
Yes, the title ‘when is technology bad for innovation’ is deliberately provocative. As illogical as it may seem, technology without constraint harms ou…