The first thing they teach you in a microbiology lab is patience. I was a student then, years before anyone would call me an innovation strategist. My world was a bench, a flame, and glass dishes with life growing inside them. You did not rush. You labelled everything. You wrote down every step, even the…
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The Expertise Advantage Framework.
I came back from London Tech Week with one thing confirmed, and it was not a new trend. It’s one of my frameworks. I call it the Expertise Advantage, and the whole week kept handing me evidence for it. The conversations in those rooms circled the same excitement I have heard for some time now….
AI Didn’t Level the Playing Field. It Changed the Game Entirely.
I was sitting in a session at London Tech Week last week, and the energy in the room was unlike anything I have felt in a professional setting in a long time. Founders, government officials, product leads, and investors are all watching the same thing shift in real time. The conversation was not about whether…
Most Organisations Are Sitting on Their Best Innovation and Don’t Know It
A few months ago I was working through the architecture of the National Data Library, the platform that gives the public access to UK government data. One of the most significant national digital infrastructure projects the UK has built in years. At some point in that work, a thought stopped me cold. The data was…
Accessibility is not a feature. It is the product.
A few months ago I ran an accessibility audit on a UK government website. Not a quick scan but a proper audit. Screen reader testing, keyboard-only navigation, colour contrast checks, reading level. What the audit surfaces is not always catastrophic. But it is always honest: journeys built perfectly for the assumed user that break, quietly…
Why Most Businesses Get Innovation Wrong (And What It Actually Means)!
And I think that misunderstanding is quietly killing a lot of businesses. I see it everywhere. A founder comes up with something they have never seen before and calls it ‘innovation’. A business launches a new product and includes the word “innovative” in its press release. A team run a brainstorming session and leave feeling…