Cooking up some innovation magic
How to manage innovation spaces for impact Once upon a time there was a Brazilian entrepreneur, Antonio Jacob Renner. Who in 1912 founded...
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John Bessant
- Apr 25
- 1 min
Underground innovation
We know today that smart companies who care about innovation invest in the capacity for innovation — R&D and market research, future ...
John Bessant
- Apr 12
- 8 min
Making an IMPACT
Building values-based innovation cultures for sustainable business impact Sustainability matters - of course. You'd have to be living in...
John Bessant
- Mar 22
- 2 min
A flop is not a failure
Why innovation thrives on being able to reframe Mexico City, Olympic Games, 1968. The stadium is packed, the wider world looks on via TV...
John Bessant
- Mar 13
- 1 min
Innovation - we've got it taped!
Why the old ones are (sometimes) still the good ones Close your eyes and imagine for a moment a computer room in the early days of the...
John Bessant
- Feb 20
- 2 min
An innovation love story
Another innovation song, inspired by an article in the Journal of Product Innovation Management by Frank Piller and colleagues, in...
John Bessant
- Feb 2
- 1 min
Innovating innovation
How machine learning is transforming the innovation game Machine learning has its roots back in experiments with ‘artificial ...
John Bessant
- Jan 9
- 1 min
Delivering innovation
How the history of mail order can help us think about managing innovation at scale Image: @buravleva_stock on Freepik 2022 was a record...
John Bessant
- Nov 28, 2022
- 2 min
A letter to Innovation Santa
Ten essentials for an innovator’s Christmas list… Christmas, as my 6 year old never tires of reminding me, is coming. Never mind that...
John Bessant
- Oct 20, 2022
- 2 min
Playing the innovation game
Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it….. Well, I’m not sure about the last one but someone somewhere has probably done...
John Bessant
- Oct 3, 2022
- 1 min
ice cream dreams
The surprising innovation stories behind that sunny afternoon delight.... Season of mists, mellow fruitfulness — and those rare but...
John Bessant
- Sep 14, 2022
- 2 min
Don't kick the copier...
Image: @thidarat.suteeratat on Freepik Have you ever felt the urge to kick the photocopier? Or worse? That time when you desperately...
John Bessant
- Aug 10, 2022
- 2 min
Open innovation - the musical...!
Another innovation song....this time about open innovation. Written as part of the celebrations for Henry Chesbrough's retirement, you...
John Bessant
- Jul 28, 2022
- 1 min
Two timing innovation
Image: @samodelkin20 on Freepik Multiple independent invention is surprisingly common — there have been many research studies...
John Bessant
- Jul 11, 2022
- 1 min
Scaling innovation
Innovation fails — sometimes spectacularly so. It’s hard enough when that failure comes early on during the start-up phase — that...
John Bessant
- Jun 20, 2022
- 2 min
Digital is different...
How innovation management is changing and why we still need strategy Image: Freepik ‘Now the chips are down…..’ ‘The robots are coming….’...
John Bessant
- May 17, 2022
- 1 min
Why nodding is bad for your brain...
Image: @macrovector on Freepik One of the huge cast of characters created by the wonderful humorous writer P. G. Wodehouse was Wilmot...
John Bessant
- Apr 22, 2022
- 2 min
Managing knowledge spaghetti
Image: @chaded on Freepik Innovation is all about knowledge spaghetti. Just like a plate of pasta innovation involves many different...
John Bessant
- Apr 6, 2022
- 1 min
Releasing the power of users
Why healthcare innovation is increasingly going to depend on the insights of patients... These days there are very few certainties but...
John Bessant
- Mar 17, 2022
- 1 min
The suggestion box strikes back
The suggestion box sounds like a very old approach to the challenge of high involvement innovation - how to engage the majority of...
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