Cultivating Leadership – Becoming A Gardener
In organisations, connections often occur chaotically, and they multiply in profusion. In the plans of hierarchical organisations, connections typicall…
Ecosystem
A new innovative pathway built on ecosystems and platform management
Ecosystems and platforms are our pathways to a new innovation future. Ecosystems have suddenly become of age, as they can be formed around common con…
COVID-19 pivot
Unmasking Truths In many ways COVID-19 unmasked some painful truths about existing human organisational systems. Throughout the crisis people had to f…
Riding a transformational wave
My leadership learning experiences with change provided an opportunity to test and fully appreciate that there are several placements on which you can …
Innovators are rockstars, but they are people too!
“They don’t understand? After all this time, they say they don’t get it? We’ve been working on this for three years! What for have I written all those …
The ecosystem relationship of a rain forest is also how innovation interreacts and works effectively
Firstly I would argue that innovation, to be managed well, needs to operate like an ecosystem, the same as a tropical rainforest. For ecosystems to fl…
The First Step in Improving an Ecosystem
In 1878 Leo Tolstoy released what would become one of his most acclaimed works, the novel Anna Karenina. The book starts with a quote, that over the ce…
Corporate-startup collaboration checklist
With the increased need to diversify their innovation enabling vehicles, more and more corporations are drawn on the startup partnership path. Make no …
How Long O Lord Will You Forget Me?
From the age of eight, I was a church chorister. Although I turned to Buddhism at the age of thirteen, when it occurred to me that the Bible was a work…
The Wisdom of Generations
Did you know that at the equator, the Earth spins at a fixed rate of around 1,000 miles an hour? Probably not. The reason you cannot feel it turning is…
Innovation Car Boot Sales and Open Intellectual Property Exchanges
Pulling on the strands of decluttering, Open Source and Crowdsourcing this thought piece considers the challenge of creating an open market for an orga…
Personal, not digital…innovation matchmaking is about people, not just apps, algorithms or data matches
This thought piece is the follow up to Picking the right Innovation Races that looked at Horizon Scanning and the growing list of digital platforms tha…
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…
Picking the right innovation races
Which way do you pick your horse for the Grand National? Would you use your personal relationships to speak to someone in the horse and racing game or …
Power of the Global Crowd
Going it alone, maybe inside your business or working with the wider community? Closed or Open Innovation? In this hyper-connected world which one is g…
What Features Typify Innovative Research Networks?
It seems widely accepted that innovation today is a collaborative endeavor, with universities playing a significant part. For instance, a study publis…
Beyond Puzzles: Innovating in Complex Ecosystems
Have you ever been in an obstacle course that had multiple ways for you to proceed? What about reading a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book where at key …
The sense we are moving towards a new innovation movement?
Ecosystems in our business thinking have suddenly become of age, they can enable cross-cutting innovation to be delivered in highly collaborative and d…
New Report Highlights Growth In European R&D
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…
What makes a good idea great?
You need to solve a problem or have a novel concept. One starts by defining the “what” you are attempting to solve or accomplish. This should be comm…