I like to listen to interesting speakers do their thing – you can really learn from their wisdom. As Steven Covey would advise – sharpen your saw… So I was thrilled to listen to Gerry Johnson at Lancaster University Management School yesterday evening. If you don’t know, he’s the one of Johnson and Scholes fame
For those who know, Open Innovation has become a mainstay of current innovation management thinking. Collaboration with other companies, academia, research organizations and consultancies is king because increasingly that is where deep expertise resides – a connecting experts leads to better innovation outcomes. Companies must now bring the outside world, In – to speed up
Today, System Growth Consulting completed our registration as business coaches to SMEs seeking innovation through the Horizon 2020 dedicated SME instument. We are a dedicated technology and innovation management consultancy ideally suited to high-growth companies who see the value of science and technology to develop their new products processes and services. For those of you
Leadership is one a 5 key elements of our Growth Engine Model. Leadership custom and practice has been found to play a critical role in creating the environment and incentives for enabling the shift from good-to-great innovation performance. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Companies and economies are constantly looking for ways to boost their financial returns. Today, innovation
The EU is paying a lot of attention to creating growth by helping businesses exploit and commercialise new ideas. Horizon 2020 is the European Union’s Euro 80 billion innovation stimulous package. And we have access to help SMEs benefit from that funding. It works like this. SMEs who have an innovative product development idea can
In creative thinking, there as a technique known as The Reversal. It is used to break thinking down by doing the exact opposite of what our professional and social programming tells us to do. By Reversing the approach to a problem, new and creative and potentially valuable ideas are generated. This posting comes out of
There is lots of buzz around – George is in town for the Topping Out ceremony £61m National Graphene Institute in Manchester. I attended one of the four technology project consortium building events in Manchester this month aimed at winning funding for feasibility studies to find our what it will take to win in the
Today I was fortunate to be invited to MOSI in Manchester for the big launch for the Northwest Business Leadership Team’s latest thought leadership report on Science, Technology and Innovation. Could there be a more appropriate location for such an event sitting next to the machine that in 1948 Alan Turing made possible? In the
Browsing the innovation reports this week, I noticed the EUs Innovation Scorecard 2014. I’m interested in panning for gold, so bring these insights to you so you don’t have to read the 100 page report. Some of the findings also corroborate with other reports. The recent article in The Guardian reminds us of the following
I was privileged to be invited to HQ of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in London to review and comment on their latest Technical Strategy “Chemical Engineering Matters”. IChemE represents 40000 ChemEngrs worldwide so is significant. But significant also the contribution it aims to project. But an interesting and I think crucial point came up