Eight years ago I did some work with a chemicals company. One of their divisions made paint and wanted to invent a framework for innovation. One of the things we did was get into bed (not...

Some more thoughts from my mate Andrew at GIN... At times of financial turmoil the temptation is to metaphorically batten down the hatches and wait for the storm to pass. Cut costs, cut...

Somthing my friend Andrew Crosthwaite at Global Innovation Network just sent me. It reminds me of something about the '7 levels of why' that I had in my head for at least five years - but never...

It’s incredible what you can find on the Internet these days. I was cruising around cyberspace the other day without any specific sense of where I was going when I stumbled upon a paper on...

Seeing that my last post was about bath bubbles I thought I’d better get a bit more serious, so here’s a quick review of innovation models. First though I think it’s worth looking at...

There’s been a lot of talk about housing bubbles recently – allegedly caused by various low-cost financial innovations - but I’d like to start a discussion about another kind of bubble that...

You’d have to have been living on another planet not to notice that saving our planet is a pretty big trend these days and the trend for all things ‘green’ and sustainable is naturally...

According to Thomas Kuhn’s classic book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, youthful exuberance is a key driver of scientific discovery and change. This seems to square up with my own...

In recent years, education (and work) have tended to narrow. What do I mean by this? Simply that students are expected to develop particular specializations very early on and that this...

Do we need a commonsense revolution in education and elsewhere in society? I think we do and it needs to start now. If you ask someone old or middle-aged where...