We passionately believe that all great innovation starts with the identification of a problem, a problem that's worth solving and a problem that you are best placed to solve. It's what we call your 'right to win'. We don't start coming up with ideas until we know where we are going to innovate
To us, innovation is a business discipline, not an art form. It's a critical business growth driver - we're creating ideas to grow your bottom line. We've been in your shoes. We've been real life innovators, with bottom line responsibility for the delivery of multiple innovation projects
We believe in working WITH our clients to find and implement solutions. We'll work with you to engage the various project stakeholders. It's important that we come up with, and help you implement, ideas that you can and want to implement'
I’ve often heard my fellow innovators say that coming up with ideas is the easy part of innovation. Coming up with good ideas is more difficult and coming up with great ideas, ideas that are Read more
Innovation is a risky business. Depending on whose numbers you believe, up to 90% of innovations fail. Improving your chance of innovation success isn’t easy and there is no one simple fix. However, experience suggests Read more
“Innovate or Die” used to be the mantra. Now its “Innovate Fast or Die”. If you are an in-company innovator, you’ll need to do some ‘groundwork’ to prepare your business to innovate at speed. If Read more
I was reading a McKinsey article* recently where Corning’s technology chief, Waguih Ishak, shared the lessons of his 40 years of innovation experience. It’s a good read, I recommend it. One of his lessons, ‘don’t Read more
Your suggestions box is a good barometer of how engaged employees are in their company’s innovation efforts. Is your suggestions box empty, gathering dust? If so, your fellow employees either think someone else is doing Read more
With the US elections imminent, the autumn statement on its way, Brexit negotiations just around the corner…… innovators need to be politicians too The thing I love about innovation is its ability to take me Read more
As innovators, we’re nothing without ideas. But where do those ideas come from? Can anyone come up with the big idea? Or is the eureka experience reserved for the Steve Jobs, Albert Einsteins and Thomas Edisons of this world? Read more
My last post about problem hunting prompted someone to point me in the direction of Peter Drucker’s classic article on ‘The Discipline of Innovation’ – suggesting that analysis first was the way forward. Whilst Mr. Drucker Read more
I recently wrote about the challenges of breaking into established purchasing behaviour. Of course, this all about the fundamental task of innovators – to develop products and services with a valued point of difference, a USP that delivers a solution to Read more
I recently came across a statistic about the average number of different meals Mums (and it does still seem to be mostly Mums) cook for their family. Apparently most households cycle just 9 different meals. Read more