I often get cross about what seems to me, anyway, to be pointless innovation. Those pregnancy tests that say the words ‘Pregnant’ or ‘Not Pregnant’ instead of using the standard two lines: what a waste of digital tech that will go straight to landfill, for no discernible benefit. Or yet another flavoured water drink, stuffed with either sugar or aspartame… Read more →
I made a film with Solverboard recently – drawing on my role as Head of Innovation Practice, I talk about some of the factors that can help make innovation programmes a success. If you like it, why not watch Solverboard’s other films? Read more →
Sometimes, you go to a conference and it turns out that almost all the speakers there are saying the same thing, in slightly different ways. That sounds like a bad thing (or a very boring conference), but in this case, it wasn’t. The conference in question was the Chief Innovation Officer Summit last week in London, and I was there… Read more →
Mark is an innovation consultant, founder of Ape Studios and the Do Lectures, a visiting fellow in sustainable design at University of Loughborough and visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, and the list goes on. I met Mark when he ran a Do session in Bristol during Social Media Week, and for this conversation interviewed him accidentally in… Read more →
Innovation is having a moment – everyone is frantically pursuing it, from governments who think innovation is the answer to the flagging economy (although interestingly Theresa May has taken innovation out of her new business-focused department’s title), to companies petrified of being Ubered out of existence by some upstart with a clever idea. The Internet is awash with articles about… Read more →
