In search of novelty – The use of deliberate metaphors
In the search for bold and novel ideas, most professionals get stuck. Metaphors help you to get unstuck by breaking the natural tendency to rely on o…
Innovation Strategy
The core blocker to corporate innovation isn’t what you think
In this piece Tim reflects on his experiences leading intrapreneurship at Barclays to establish that, somewhat counter to the literature, it is not c…
The drivers of innovation value
The importance of innovation to business longevity and the potential it holds for economic growth has never been disputed. Collaboration and connectedn…
Serious play
What are the secrets of investing in innovation? What does it take for creativity to become routine? What are the innovation drivers that make compan…
Making innovation better
Did you know that more than 90% of leaders are dissatisfied with their innovation performance? Innovation is not delivering the required impact. This i…
The price of ambiguity
You might have heard of the VUCA abbreviation, standing for volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. It is most often used to describe how the worl…
Strike first, throw second
Conventional product life cycle stages are market development, growth, maturity, and decline. Poor assumptions in the first stage result in exuberant c…
Creating an innovation strategy is a team effort!
It is time to recognise that top down strategy development is outdated in the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times we live in. An inclusive…
Why the fast not the big dominate the future
I spent three months meeting 78 Fortune 500 innovation teams. They came from dozens of industries, yet they all revealed one shared concern. “How do …
Is investing in innovation worth it?
Is investing in innovation worth it? As an innovator I suspect you are a little biased...What if we ask the academic experts, what will research show u…
5 Steps of the Design Thinking Process: A Step-by-Step Guide
The benefit of Design Thinking is that, through empathy for your customer, consumer, or client, you are able to create products and experiences that tr…
Create the future
The old adage saying of offence is better than defence might be true to some extent, but it is too black and white in most situations. We can use innov…
Strategy is about creating corporate memories of the future
Long term thinking is a lost art. It is necessary for leaders to align their thinking and experience to plan best they could for the future. Complex ch…
The elusive innovation strategy
Who would've thought that combining two vague terms would result in an even vaguer phrase? Fortunately, they are vague mostly due to ignorance and negl…
10 Things to remember before you launch your own Innovation Lab
So your business is thinking about introducing an innovation lab and you can’t wait to get started – but are you fully prepared? Pietro Marini’s essent…
The great unravelling
Right now our civilisation is on the brink of a physical, psychological and moral collapse – a punctuation point of momentous significance. For this po…
Doing and managing innovation
For a long time innovation – just like entrepreneurship – has been considered a matter of luck, something that magically happens when the right creat…
Welcome to the Age of Budget Innovation
The coronavirus pandemic is changing the way we live and work. and the rippling effect is crippling the economy. We have entered the era of low-cost, ‘…
Innovation. What, why and how?
Innovation has become an overused buzzword. It’s used and abused to talk about transformation, the launch of new products, customer experience, social …
Turbulent times are the best for innovation
In these challenging times, it is easy to let fear take control. Even if this is for sure a tough situation for most of us, we don’t have any other cho…