Why quarterly capitalism slows innovation down
Why quarterly capitalism exists Usually, there is a natural conflict of interest between investors, founders, employees and executives. Far more often…
Next Generation Organisation
Digital Discovery: How To Create a Digital Experience – That Is Built For The Real World…
The real challenge at the heart of digital transformation is with visualising the future - and building networks that can cope with a huge range of use…
Rediscovering sustainable competitive advantage
Sustainable competitive advantage? Seriously? In our time? Most business leaders I talk to agree that the days of sustainable competitive advantage ar…
The Hospitality Industry and its quest for innovation
Innovation is at the top of mind of most senior management executives across industries- be it healthcare, banking, insurance or retail. While it is vo…
Move over Silicon Valley; Asia roars when it comes to Innovation
Throughout the course of my career, I have been extremely fortunate to manage and lead innovation initiatives with companies in different parts of the …
A new cycle of innovation design
We really do have this compelling need to have a new cycle of innovation design. A more integrated solution that takes our understanding of innovation …
The Future of Work – Can ideas become pervasive?
When we walk into most large, traditional corporate organisations, the one thing they all have in common is the inability and reluctance to change; to …
Real Artists Ship
"Real artists ship" was an Apple battle cry from the earliest days. Steve Jobs used it to drive his teams to understand that the best inventions needed…
Delivering the next generation
Many of our readers will be aware that The Future Shapers is currently crowdfunding with Crowdcube. As part of the process we support investors and po…
3 Words that Should Come to Mind when You Hear “Millennial”
3 Words that Should Come to Mind When You Hear “Millennial” When asked to speak on the topic of Millennials, I warm up the audience with a simple ques…
Applying the Three Horizon Thinking to a Fresh Perspective of Innovation Design
There is huge value in applying the three-horizon framework into your thinking. It is as useful a framework that you can get, to help decide where you …
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…
Future of Work Scenarios - and the capacities that will make you thrive
March 1 marked the annual World Future Day. Organized by futurist organizations like the Millennium Project, the Association Of Professional Futurists,…
Millennials and Entrepreneurship
Most of the people I know who work in the idea management and/or innovation space are in their thirties and beyond. We may employ the younger generati…