Unravelling the Skype saga Retirement is a strange thing. Sometimes there’s a big party, a celebration of a working life and the chance...

Why Zara has a lot to celebrate at its fiftieth birthday party May’s a good month for celebrating. Not least the arrival of spring here...

The surprising power of reframing as an innovation tool Neuroplasticity. Not some weird creation of a mad 3D sculptor intent on creating...

How to unlock the power of your ideas through the PR/FAQ framework   Innovation isn’t a solo act, it’s a multi-player game which depends...

How an entrepreneurial couple helped start a retail revolution Image: Canva A gold ingot about the size of an older generation smartphone...

Why absorptive capacity matters in our innovation strategy   We grow through what we know.  Put simply that’s at the heart of the...

How a concert fifty years ago can still provide insight and ideas to help manage innovation 24th January, 1975. Fifty years ago and a...

Why cutting back is sometimes the best innovation approach Every year about this time we move southwards. Like very late swallows....

A seasonal innovation song... Image: Dall-E via Chat GPT Dear Santa… A seasonal innovation song It’s the time of year when letters are...

What we can learn from the past to help navigate the AI storm… There’s a technology out there that’s coming for you. You can’t escape it,...

A standard is an old word for a flag. Back in the days of sailing ships you could see a forest of them fluttering at the stern of ships...

How to unlock the power of recombinant innovation Wandering around Chicago in 1912 William Klann was a man on a mission. He was part of a...

Why high involvement innovation matters more than ever — and how to make it happen Autumn. Season of mists, mellow fruitfulness — and...

Why we need to rethink the story around responsible innovation High on mountain above Oslo you can see the strange angular shape of...

How one man’s innovation provided the missing link for 20th century agricultural revolution There’s a lot of good stuff which comes out...

It’s easy to take maps for granted — but we’d be pretty stuck without them. Maps have been one of the most important human inventions for...

Leveraging the power of large organizations for social innovation We’ve got a huge challenge around social innovation. If we’re serious...

Long fuse, big bang. A great descriptor which Andrew Hargadon uses to describe the way some major innovations arrive and have impact. For...

How to navigate the long winding road to high impact innovation What do you get when you’ve successfully developed and launched your...

Why change isn't always a good thing.... We spend so much of our time thinking about important innovation but maybe we should spare a...