I’ve just come back from the IRM Innovation, Business Change and Technology conference, where Solverboard was exhibiting, and I am a broken woman. Three days of workshops, presentations, conversations, and networking in air conditioned rooms means my head is full of information, my bag is full of business cards, and I don’t feel like leaving the house again for a… Read more →
A grand monument to love. amira_a/Flickr, CC BY Tim Lomas, University of East London No emotion, surely, is as cherished and sought after as love. Yet on occasions such as Valentine’s day, we can often be misled into thinking that it consists solely in the swooning, star-crossed romance of falling deeply “in love”. But on reflection, love is far more… Read more →
Julian Birkinshaw is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. His particular field of interest is the challenges for large companies who want to work in more innovative and agile ways, which is a topic that comes up time and again in my work with Solverboard customers as well as in all the literature around innovation. I heard… Read more →
As part of my role as Solverboard’s Head of Innovation Practice, I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of work at Solverboard – and last week’s World Economic Forum reports provided a lot of food for that thought. The WEF’s Eight Futures of Work scenarios were particularly interesting, so I wrote a little something for the C Suite on… Read more →
I wrote this piece for Solverboard recently as part of a Times supplement on Enterprise Agility, and really enjoyed talking to Nick Price as part of the research. Fans of science fiction will know that in the future almost anything is possible. Whether it’s neural laces for human-to-computer communication, phasers set to stun or kill, sentient spaceships, depressed androids or interplanetary… Read more →
I joined the RSA a few years ago after I came across their work project on self-employment — as a recently self-employed professional, it made a big impact on my thinking about entrepreneurship, and I’ve followed the organisation’s work ever since. So it was a huge privilege to spend some time with Rowan and talk about her report on bringing about social… Read more →
Monday nights are often pretty dull, especially at this time of year – it’s dark and cold, and everyone is adjusting to being back in the daily grind of the week. So it was hugely refreshing and uplifting to spend my Monday evening in the company of the lovely people at 6Heads, as well as a large number of their… Read more →
I’ve been wanting to talk to Margaret ever since I saw her speak at the Vision conference in Bristol a few years ago, so I was incredibly happy to get the opportunity of speaking with her on the phone for this interview. At Vision, she gave a version of her superchickens TED talk, which I found inspiring and exciting in… Read more →
I met Luke at the FEI Innovation Europe Conference in June, where he gave a great presentation about the challenges of running an innovation programme in a large corporation. I was taken by his in-depth understanding not just of how to run successful innovation programmes, but how to navigate the politics and priorities of the organisation to maximise the chances… Read more →
The Museum of Innovation Failure enjoyed a lot of press coverage recently, which is how I first came across Samuel. But although I wanted to ask him about that, I was also interested to see that his academic work has been focused on creativity at work — a subject close to my heart. I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation about play and playful… Read more →
For this conversation, I spoke to Antony Beckett, the Undergraduate Programme Director and Dave Jarman, Postgraduate Programme Co-Director for University of Bristol’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Both are Teaching Fellows and responsible in part for designing the pioneering innovation degree programmes now being offered at the University. Talking to Antony and Dave was memorable for a number of reasons:… Read more →
A few years ago, I bought a water machine. It’s plumbed into the mains water and dispenses 98 degree hot water and chilled filtered water at the touch of a button, and I love it. When you work at home, constantly filling the kettle and waiting for it to boil is tedious and annoying, and given that the machine was… Read more →
