Platforms for social innovation
Platforms are not a new idea. Over a hundred years ago Messrs Sears and Roebuck pioneered a business to enable remote shopping, using...
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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
- Feb 24, 2021
- 1 min
Sources of innovation – another song…
Where do innovations come from? Research suggest that there are many different sources, some working to create opportunities (‘knowledge...
John Bessant
- Oct 18, 2020
- 8 min
Diversity matters…
Diversity matters in innovation. Particularly because it allows us to access a wide range of different viewpoints which can contribute...
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
- Apr 18, 2020
- 5 min
Platform innovation
Watch any group of kids playing with Lego and you’ll quickly get the idea behind platform thinking. A small number of standard modular...
John Bessant
- Apr 3, 2020
- 1 min
High involvement innovation
Right now we need all the creativity we can get. The good news is that organizations have huge innovation potential already available...
John Bessant
- Mar 26, 2020
- 10 min
Crisis-driven innovation
I first wrote this blog as the basis for a talk in the UK last year when the only thing worrying us was the ‘crisis’ of Brexit. Now...
John Bessant
- Feb 23, 2020
- 8 min
Value shifts as innovation drivers….
January is now well past and so too is an annual event. The CES (Consumer Electronics Show), one of the hottest tickets in town if you...
John Bessant
- Oct 31, 2019
- 7 min
Experience innovation
Right now there’s a bit of a struggle going on in the UK and it’s not about Brexit. There’s great concern in the arts world that a...
John Bessant
- Sep 20, 2019
- 8 min
Responsible innovation in healthcare
Meet a remarkable woman.  Lisa Crites, an American broadcast journalist was 42 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Following a...
John Bessant
- Jun 29, 2019
- 11 min
Creating innovation spaces
If you’re in the innovation game you probably ought to meet Madame de Geoffrin. Anyone working at the fuzzy front end or trying to find...
John Bessant
- Apr 15, 2019
- 1 min
Some further thoughts on building an innovation culture…
The second part of a blog piece about building innovation culture… Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to...
John Bessant
- Jan 2, 2019
- 1 min
Cultures of innovation
If we’re serious about wanting a culture of innovation its probably useful to start by exploring what that might involve…. Share this:...
John Bessant
- Nov 8, 2018
- 7 min
If at first you don’t succeed…….
What do Mickey Mouse, vacuum cleaners, air travel and light-bulbs have in common? More than you’d think , especially if you look to the...
John Bessant
- Sep 18, 2018
- 8 min
No man is an island…..
‘No man is an island….’ – networking matters! In his day job as Dean of St Pauls cathedral in 17th century London John Donne would have...
John Bessant
- Jul 10, 2018
- 6 min
Surprising innovation…..
Image- charlietanksley ‘Listen to the voice of the customer’ – pretty clear advice delivered in thousands of business classes all around...
John Bessant
- Jul 1, 2018
- 6 min
Getting fit for innovation….
Innovation practice makes perfect? I’ve just returned from the ISPIM conference in Stockholm where around 500 people spent several days...
John Bessant
- Jun 6, 2018
- 7 min
The power of problem exploration…..
‘Houston, we’ve had a problem here’. John Swigert’s famous words, delivered in a voice as calm and clear as the mountain air in his...
John Bessant
- May 24, 2018
- 1 min
Innovation Management Challenges: From fads to fundamentals
New paper reviewing current innovation management challenges… Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share...
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