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. …
Innovation 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…
Innovation Accounting: The Failure of The Business Case
Co-Written by Future Shapers Tristan Kromer and Elijah Eilert. In times of uncertainty, we strive for predictability. The relentless pace of change dr…
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 …
Designing unique workshops is hard work
Finding opportunities for innovation and growth is hard work. The value of having good, interactive, highly participative workshops breaks much of thos…
In search of novelty – The use of deliberate metaphors
“The difficulty [in creating novel ideas] lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” -John Maynard Keynes Now, more than…
Human centred design – The secret sauce to business success
How to create products & services for your target audience If there’s a secret sauce to successful product development, it’s human-centered design…
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 creativ…
Get the most out of Zoom for virtual facilitation
Planning a virtual workshop? I’m sharing my top tips to help you run it successfully! Voltage Control has been hosting multiple virtual workshops a w…
5 Effective Strategies for Virtual Meetings
For the vast majority of the world, all work and meetings are now virtual. If you’re worried about what this means for productivity and meaningful meet…
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…
Gamifying your next moonshot
Over the last couple of months, we have been consulting for one of the largest conglomerates in the Philippines. My team has been working to chart out …
Idea Validation: Steps and Tools for Testing Your Idea
Sometimes even the most bizarre ideas can turn out great. Think of AirBnb and Uber, classic examples of successful business ideas that people were scep…
4 Reasons Why Digital Natives may be your Best Innovation Tool
Too often in the media we see thought pieces that lambaste an entire generation as entitled and worthless. I get it. No one wants to be replaced by “th…
Celebrating the Integrators
As her blond curls bounced down the stairs, she vaulted her words out ahead of her, “I’ve got an idea!” These words always came from our daughter’s mou…
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 …
Long live the pioneers, rebels and mutineers, go forth and have no fear.
What is the link between singer-songwriter David Bowie, and Marillion the neo-progressive rock band of the 1980s? How does this relate to The Future Sh…
From the Rock Market to the Stock Market
Those from a certain generation will know the backstory to the title. ‘From the rock market to the stock market’ was the ad slogan of a famous televisi…
Let’s co-create, Mr Client!
We need to stop creating solutions and only getting good at selling them; we need to co-create solutions with our clients. At Wazoku, we work with top …
Can Innovation Be Commoditized?
In the course of my work I read a lot of academic research, business books and professional case studies. Whether it’s Kim’s blue ocean strategy, Chri…