Absorptive Capacity, Knowledge Management and Innovation
Let’s start with some defining statements. Innovation is totally dependent on becoming aware of external ideas and the knowledge that is needed, and th…
Intelligence
Fluidity – The Growing Need Of Organisations Today
Organisations are facing increasing a dilemma in how they organise and manage within their systems and structures. They are being forced to deal in …
Intelligence. Labour. Care giving.The Essence of Existence!
How can we distribute the importance of each of the three factors that is Intelligence, Labour and Care giving respectively? Is it possible that Intell…
The neuroscience of creativity
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of - vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us. – D…
Regulation of payment in the news media – fixing the negative externalities of disruptive innovation
Technology routinely outstrips society’s ability to deal with it. That’s partly because tech entrepreneurs are often casual about the legal and social…
Summits or Circuses?
Conferences, summits, seminars, conventions, international forums and more lately webinars and online events… It seems the events management scene th…
When life gives you crap, grow flowers
Back in 1979, the idea of not using phosphates in washing powder seemed pretty bananas. After seeing the damage to waterways and aquatic life caused …
Maslow’s Pyramid Applied to the Company
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow. It is comprised of a five-tier model of human needs, o…
The Indispensable Tool for Every Innovator
Every domain has its indispensable tools. What would astronomy be without the telescope and, conversely, how would a biologist get their work done with…
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…
Intrapreneurship in Action – Ashgate Hospicecare
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 …
5 Ways Leadership Can Plan For The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Across the world, you see the aftermath of rapid disruption technological disruption. A recent article in the ” The Guardian, examined the impact of au…
Why, Robot? The social, moral and cultural implications of AI
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…
Why it’s not about the oats: innovation requires foresight
Many innovative new products fail. I believe that too many innovation teams focus on their own innovation capabilities and neglect brand and culture. T…