I've interviewed many people from different walks of life in my career, but this is the first time I've ever interviewed a bona fide, guitar toting ROCKSTAR!! James Dodkins used to play in a multi-award winning heavy metal rock band and he now brings t...

Dr Anette Broløs is a highly qualified consultant, researcher, public speaker, moderator and published author but perhaps most relevant of all to this topic is that she has a PhD in Collaborative Innovation - meaning she has encountered her fair share ...

The Monsters and Myths series kicks off with Customer Experience Professional Roland Naidoo I met Roland in 2017 at a Customer Experience event in South Africa where he delivered a superb keynote about "raising" an AI (Artificial Intelligence) and sinc...

Innovation is a blend of Art and Science and it takes place in a broad and messy ecosystem that has far more in common with making moonshine that you might think :-)

Everyone focuses on the obvious benefits of innovation activities - but there are many more implications to being known as an innovative organisation that will have an impact across your company.

The fear of failure is one of the most common reasons why people don't want to be associated with anything to do with innovation. In this episode, I share some of the activities that have helped me overcome the inherent fear of the unknown that many pe...

Measuring the impact of your innovation initiatives is crucial to maintaining momentum and funding within your organisation - but innovation measurement is also a controversial and hotly contested topic - I don't have all the answers,

Innovation takes place in an eco-system and that there are multiple process that contribute towards making an organisation more innovative - (just) having an "innovation funnel" doesn't cut it!

In recent years, the media has hyped the role of a “futurist” as “someone that predicts the future”. Most people don’t consider themselves capable of envisioning the kinds of futures posited by leading futurists and they stand in awe or are bewildered ...

Analyst group Gartner considers Corporate Culture to be the biggest threat / impediment to innovation and I agree! The goal should not be to “do” innovation but rather for the entire organisation to “be” more innovative in everything they do.