Excellent podcast on innovation
Tweet Disruption is a word worn thin by overuse. “Verbal inflation”, Michael Raynor (a long-time collaborator of Clayton Christensen) calls the effe...
Tag: innovation
Big data in a historical context
Tweet Excellent stuff from Alan Patrick on his Broadstuff blog, talking about the 70s, 80s and 90s versions of big data – or “data”, they were...
More disruption, please
Tweet Large companies can innovate, but to do so they must consciously remain open to new actors or counterintuitively disrupt existing relationships to force t...
Team GB Cycling and the magic of marginal gains
Tweet Over the summer I developed a bit of an obsession with Team GB Cycling, like a lot of people. How did they become so successful? So successful that the ga...
Firestarters: Adil Abrar on “minimum viable technology”
Tweet At the Firestarters event at Google ton Wednesday, we got to hear three fascinating talks on entrepreneurship (a topic naturally very close to my heart, b...
Storytelling with sound, Paul Bennun and Nick Ryan – Notes from The Story Part 4
Tweet Another perspective on storytelling came from game designer Paul Bennun and sound designer and composer Nick Ryan, who collaborated most recently on the i...
Innovation in news: Al-Jazeera Labs
Tweet Fascinating to see how Arabic and English news service Al Jazeera is approaching the innovation imperative with its Al Jazeera Labs project. In the first ...
Strategy and innovation: Head for the edge
Tweet Business thinkers John Seely Brown and John Hagel are always worth listening to. Their perspectives on innovation and concepts like FAST Strategy have not...
Do Tanks
Tweet Sometimes I think I would like to work for a think tank. Sounds like my kind of thing, all that thinking. Imagine. Get into work, sit down and have a rud...