Innovation - a question of balance
Imagine the scene. Crowds looking up, craning their necks to see against the blinding sunlight glistening in the spray. The roar of...
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John Bessant
- Mar 27, 2021
- 1 min
Flirting with new ideas
Next time it starts to rain and you reach for your folding umbrella spare a thought for Slawa Duldig. She was the Viennese sculptress...
John Bessant
- Mar 4, 2021
- 8 min
A curious blend of innovation….
The kitchen blender has a lot to answer for. These days there are plenty of experiments with what you can cram into the jug and then...
John Bessant
- Feb 4, 2021
- 11 min
Striking an innovation chord…
I don’t know about you but I’m spending a lot of time listening these days. As my physical room to move about contracts (thanks to...
John Bessant
- Jan 5, 2021
- 9 min
Bags of ideas
David Attenborough was on TV last night, another wonderful documentary called ‘ A perfect planet’. The core theme is how diverse forces...
John Bessant
- Nov 30, 2020
- 9 min
Partying with innovation
There haven’t been many winners during the Covid-19 pandemic. Businesses, particularly in travel and entertainment have been hit hard. ...
John Bessant
- Nov 7, 2020
- 7 min
Peanut-powered innovation
Tuskegee, Alabama. Not the world’s most attractive farming country. And certainly not in the view of a young man looking out of the...
John Bessant
- Oct 6, 2020
- 9 min
London Bridge isn’t falling down…
London bridge isn’t falling down…. London Bridge isn’t falling down. In fact it’s in excellent health considering it straddled the river...
John Bessant
- Aug 17, 2020
- 9 min
The birth of the internet …
No-one knows exactly but it’s a pretty fair guess that at any moment several hundred million people are communicating with each other,...
John Bessant
- Jul 31, 2020
- 8 min
An innovation birthday card…
(Video version here…) We’re cutting it fine but right at the end of July it’s still worth pausing for a moment to think some ‘Happy...
John Bessant
- Jul 20, 2020
- 10 min
Scaling innovation
Successful innovators make mistakes. Even though they’ve learned and built routines and capabilities they can still get it wrong....
John Bessant
- Jul 5, 2020
- 13 min
The birth of the bike…
Bicycles are big business. It’s hard to get an exact figure but estimates suggest there are around 2 billion bikes in the world today –...
John Bessant
- May 28, 2020
- 12 min
Sweeping the floor with innovation
When did you last use your Spangler? That’s a question designed to stop most people in their tracks and likely to be met by mystified...
John Bessant
- Mar 19, 2019
- 7 min
‘The best thing since sliced bread…..’
People often use this phrase when talking about an innovation and the impact they hope it will have. But what’s the story behind sliced...