How can you build resilience through innovation? Resilience isn’t about bouncing back. It’s about launching forward—stronger, smarter, and more strategically aligned. When disruption hits; pandemic, war, inflation, AI shocks, supply chain breakdown, it exposes what a business really runs on. Is it inertia, or intent? Flexibility, or fear? Strategy, or scrambling? The past few years … Read more
Economics
Reflections on IfM’s Rethinking Innovation Conference 2025
I attended the Institute for Manufacturing’s Rethinking Innovation Conference on a sunlit spring day in Cambridge – and I have to say, it was an enlightening experience. The serene, walled enclave provided a temporary respite from all the chaos that seems to be happening in the world right now. These events not only provide an … Read more
Why the UK keeps getting Industrial Policy all wrong
The UK Industrial Policy must be a ‘system’ not a project They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. If that’s true, UK industrial policy might just be a textbook case. In the last 50 years, I’ve watched the UK launch industrial strategy after industrial strategy – … Read more
What is Disruptive Innovation?
Disruptive Innovation: A true story of disruption What do you think you know about the Kodak story? It’s a commonly told tale that Kodak was disrupted BECAUSE it failed to spot the rise of digital camera technology, failed to invest and, the rest is history… Expect that story, that myth is wrong. Kodak engineers were … Read more
Global Innovation Index 2023: Highlights and Commentary
Reading Time 14 minutes About: The findings from the Global Innovation Index for 2023 have been released. The GII was first published in 2007 but is now produced by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). I’ve read it so you don’t have to and have summarised it here. It makes for intriguing findings and several … Read more
Innovation is (mostly) a losing game: How to fail well not fast
IMAGE: theblowup at Unsplash Reading Time 9 minutes About innovation, failure comes with the territory, a bit of fun about the Museum of Failure and how companies create psychologically safe innovation environments for Good failure. Value: Understanding how to create a better working approach to failure that serves us all well. Innovation Failure: Why … Read more