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WHAT Join us at Responsible Business Europe 2024 as we outline how companies can embrace sustainability across the organisation, go beyond CSRD compliance, and deliver the increasingly critical [...]

I have decided to dig into the large fund of Meeting notes from running my Networking Group, Innovators Anonymous (2004-2016) and share some of them via my ‘regular irregular’ mailout [...]

We are always delighted to share a guest contribution, particularly when relevant to both innovation and sustainability :-).  This one, by Bash Sarmiento, has some suggestions for how to improve [...]

Innovation – Past, Present, Future Insight From A 30 Year Journey October last year I was invited to share my thoughts on innovation, past and future, at the Innovation Day 2021 of the AQS [...]

I had the great pleasure of moderating two sessions at the recent event by Innov8rs Connect on Climate & SDGs which took place online between 7th and 28th April, and thought the insights from [...]

What are major obstacles to moving towards sustainability (faster)?  Sustainability. If it was a pressing and important issue before, Corona, fires of unprecedented scale in Europe and America [...]

10 billion people to feed Where do we come from, where do we go? I had the great pleasure of opening the 6th Food 4.0 conference organised and hosted by Poznan University of Economics And [...]

I wrote the below when being invited to contribute to a white paper looking at  future scenario narratives imagining AI in 10 – 20 years… After several ‘early readers’ commented that [...]

We urgently need to move beyond our current understanding of sustainability, even circularity is no longer enough, given where we – or rather our planet – currently are. John [...]

Another year comes to an end, another year that we could never have imaged 24 months ago … The constant treacle of articles on ‘The Big Resignation’, a reflection on the fact that the somewhat [...]

Thoughts from Day 1 of the amazing, inspirational and thought-provoking conference in the small dutch town of Leiden: Brave new World which brings the worlds of culture, philosophy, science and [...]

Why succeeding with innovation is all about people I deeply believe that understanding people, and how we and our brains function, is key to understanding why innovation does or does not happen. [...]