Disruptive Innovators Network

  • What To Do When You’ve Become A Legacy Organisation

    The outside world can push you into Day 2 if you won’t or can’t embrace powerful trends quickly. If you fight them, you’re probably fighting the future. Embrace them and you have a tailwind Jeff Bezos Highlight of my week… Continue reading

    What To Do When You’ve Become A Legacy Organisation
  • How To Make A Paradigm Shift

    Last week I was in Amsterdam with the Disruptive Innovators Network (you can read my daily updates, here, here, and here) and it got me thinking about how we make the shift from current behaviours and ways of operating. Travelling… Continue reading

    How To Make A Paradigm Shift
  • Strategic Foresight and Escaping the Tyranny of the Present

    Most of us struggle to imagine the future – even our future selves are complete strangers to us. Studies have shown that when we think about our own future we imagine ourselves as a wholly different person.  This week I… Continue reading

    Strategic Foresight and Escaping the Tyranny of the Present
  • Does Regulation Really Stifle Innovation?

    Last week I did a presentation to a group of managers when the issue of governance and regulation ‘getting in the way’ of innovation came up. People often think regulations stifle innovation, new business and services. They assume that regulators… Continue reading

    Does Regulation Really Stifle Innovation?
  • How To Kill Ideas

    We were asked a really good question last week with the visit to Bromford of the Disruptive Innovators Network. How long should you spend on an idea? In the early days of Bromford Lab we had a 12 WEEKS MAX rule.… Continue reading

    How To Kill Ideas
  • What We Can Learn From The Oldest Companies in The World

    Shigemitsu Kongo, a Japanese Buddhist temple builder, formed his construction company Kongo Gumi in in 578 AD. His company built relationships with their customers that lasted for 1,400 years, surviving through many wars and natural disasters,  just like their temples. It… Continue reading

    What We Can Learn From The Oldest Companies in The World
  • Lessons Learned From Five Years of Failure

    Sometimes the execution of the idea doesn’t need to be the best to succeed. In 1989 a video game designer called Gunpei Yokoi changed the world with the launch of the original Nintendo Game Boy. It took gaming out of… Continue reading

    Lessons Learned From Five Years of Failure