Innovation - a question of balance
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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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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...
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...