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…
Innovation & Strategy
Posts that challenge how people think about innovation, what it is, what it isn’t, and how to actually do it. Example: “Why Most Businesses Get Innovation Wrong”
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….
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…
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…