Why decentralising ideation processes supports innovation
A systematic approach to innovation is extremely important when you want to get real results out of it. Just like it is for any business function. …
Tools
How The Right Tools Can Help You Shape a More Innovative Culture
For a large organisation, culture change is incredibly difficult. As such, it probably doesn’t come as a surprise that we constantly hear managers stru…
Hybrid Workshops
The hybrid landscape is a new frontier for event facilitators and attendees alike; therefore, putting on a hybrid workshop will require a different app…
Innovation Accounting: The Failure of The Business Case
Change driven by rapid technological advancement has made companies more and more paranoid. Ignoring that risk and reward go hand in hand, corporations…
A new innovative pathway built on ecosystems and platform management
We are integrating into new ways the increasing needs and capacities of people, to capitalise on a myriad of choices with technology options and findin…
Freeing your data up to support the employee journey
In this blog post, I look at data silos, how they emerged and the problems they can cause within an organisation. I consider this challenge through …
8 steps to face a VUCA environment with Design Thinking
Regardless of your industry, you must find new ways to create certainty for your business, and Design Thinking is one of the best allies when applying …
A game changing invention disclosure form for your patent pipeline
One surprising source of friction in your patent pipeline could be your Invention Disclosure Form (IDF). Long and tedious IDF’s can cost your organisat…
A Future Shaper Investigation: Response: All that glitters is not gold
The UK Government created the UK R&D Tax Credit scheme in 2000. The government at the time recognised the UK was lagging in various innovation ranking…
Why innovate energy?
We believe there is a real gap in the need to build a robust innovation capability, capacity and competency to help accelerate the Energy Transition jo…
Killers of Innovation Part 4 – The Environment
Rapid market shifts, crises, or regulations always affect innovation. While they can create various opportunities, there is a lot of evidence of a stro…
There is such a thing as a bad idea! 10 Mistakes to avoid when brainstorming
While it can be fun to brainstorm at a round table strewn with multi-coloured markers, oddly-shaped sticky note pads, scattered candy, and Rubik’s Cube…
Making sense of innovation pipelines, funnels, and portfolios
If you have heard of the innovation pipeline, innovation funnel, and innovation portfolio, you might have wondered—what is the difference? And more imp…
Designing unique workshops is hard work
Understanding innovation requires a deep awareness- through a variety of tailored or purpose-designed workshops, dialogues or discovery trips you can…
Managing ideas at scale: Key principles
Corporate innovation needs a strong supply of high-quality ideas that feed into a fast and effective ‘innovation opportunity discovery’ process. Esta…
Curious clues for the future
We all wish we could see over the horizon at trends that are emerging, and a proper foresights process invites us to explore faint signals of the futur…
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…
Designing our Innovation Ecosystems needs Five Considerations
To facilitate the innovation ecosystem, we should consider 1) Stakeholder considerations, 2) Strategic considerations, 3) Value design building conside…
The ecosystem relationship of a rain forest is also how innovation interreacts and works effectively
Rain forests can be dense and impenetrable, so can innovation Understanding all that makes up innovation is like a dense tropical rainforest. When you …
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…