Serious play
Innovation and entrepreneurship have become the new ‘in’ things. Fads par excellence. Some suggest they may be the prime source of future competitive a…
Next Generation Organisation
The need for three distinct ecosystems within any business design
There is a real need for three distinct Ecosystems within any Business Design. I believe ecosystems are the new organism of the business world to innov…
Nothing is more powerful than an idea that’s time has come
Speaking to Andrew Keen in 2016 for his book How to Fix the Future. Brewster Kahle, the Internet Archive founder, believed the time was right for a rad…
Service vs Buy vs Build
When was the last time you spent real notes and coins or spoke to a customer service agent without going through an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) sy…
Creating an innovation strategy is a team effort!
An inclusive and consensual approach to developing bold innovation strategies is needed. Why, you ask? Historically speaking, strategy formulation was …
The 9 Mistakes Venture Boards Make
Although in principle everyone agrees that corporations need to get better at mimicking the venture capital world when it comes to taking investment de…
The fool on the hill
The Fool on the Hill is a song by the Beatles which appeared on their 1967 album Magical Mystery Tour. The words describe the titular "fool" - a solita…
Fanning the flames of post-pandemic fictions
Recently I was captivated by an interview Anton Roux at ADC conducted with Martin Wolf – the Associate Editor and chief economics commentator at the Fi…
Time for a new C-suite officer?
I am only half jesting! We have seen the rise of the Innovation officer, The Chief Digital Officer and the Chief Data Officer. We have heads of sustain…
The great unravelling
In case you hadn’t noticed, although I am not at all sure how you could miss it, many of our most life-critical systems are rapidly unravelling. The cu…
Measuring Ethics
Today all industries go through changes, making an understanding of the factors that influence purchase decisions highly important. With every firm att…
A legacy of innovation
How many of us conduct our lives by simply replicating what we did yesterday. If we want things to change we need to act differently and focus where it…
Policies for the Digital Age
If the digital economy age seemed to be an idea of a distant future some years ago, today it's becoming a living reality. With the changes brought abou…
The physical environment, innovation & cultural DNA
I have started watching a new series on Amazon TV - Swamp Thing. For those who haven’t seen it, and it can be gory in places, the basic plot line is al…
Whatever Next!
Our final piece in the series focusing on the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak this week considers what comes after the pandemic. Read the other thought p…
AI and Human Centricity – Resetting Our Power Dynamic
If we all believe a core benefit of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is to enable human value add capability, why are so few organisations or governments d…
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 Digital Transformation Canvas
Digital Transformation is probably one of the most used and abused concepts in the corporate world these days. As it happens with trendy words in the…
How do you eat the digital transformation elephant?
In 2015 the Siemen’s CEO gave a speech at an exclusive private dinner for the wealthy and powerful in Germany. In the Q&A, the CEO was asked about …
What people still don’t understand about culture and how to change it.
The world of organisational culture has changed in the last 10 years. It doesn't matter if you are a manufacturer, financial services provider, a FTSE …