Latest Posts
-
Bending The Rules To Drive Frugal Innovation
The frugal innovation revolution, by making the means to innovate more widely available, has the potential to speed up the innovation process – Jaideep Prabhu Jugaad is a Hindi word that roughly means ‘solution born from cleverness.’ It’s usually applied to… Continue reading
-
Resisting the Rush to Technology for Solutions
Is anyone else getting tired of the talk – and it is mainly talk – of digital transformation? The endless rounds of conferences, clubs and lists of so-called digital leaders – all promising a tech utopia. At a recent event I… Continue reading
-
To Boost Innovation We Need To Make Ourselves Obsolete
If you’re of a certain age you’ll sometimes find yourself reminiscing about an age where things were built to last. My own mother swears her first washing machine lasted for over 20 years. Today, Apple expects the lifecycle for an average… Continue reading
-
People Don’t Believe Our Organisations – Here’s Why
There’s not a week goes by – and I mean that quite literally – in which we don’t see a sector bemoan its image problem. The launch of some campaign or other to raise awareness of a ‘message’ and get… Continue reading
-
How To Kill Creativity (And How To Rebuild It)
Many of our organisations , without realising it , act as inhibitors of innovation. Rules and protocols are put in place — often for very good reasons — that preserve the status quo. Over time, organisations develop a set of social norms — ‘the way we do things… Continue reading
-
The Big Tech Trends For 2016 (and why you shouldn’t believe them)
In late 2010 my personal assistant Sarah-Jane conducted an experiment on me – without my permission or knowledge. Unknown to me at the time she took my effusive notes from a couple of “Future Service” conferences and sealed them… Continue reading
Paul Taylor 