Awareness & Authentic Leadership (and Innovation)
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 [...]
Innovation: Past, Present, Future – Insight From A 30 Year Journey
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 [...]
Some insights from the Innov8rs Connect event on Climate & SDGs
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)?
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
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 [...]
The Future is Yours (or is it?)
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 [...]
Year End Reflections on Contribution and Gratitude
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 [...]
Insights from the 2021 Brave New World Conference
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
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. [...]
The Purpose of Purpose?
“Purpose – the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.” Oxford Lexicon It is really fascinating … when I first drafted this article – back [...]
🦠 COVID & Innovation 💭
Reflections on innovation in the times of COVID Back in 2011 I was invited to write a White Paper on ‘Innovation and New Ways of Working’, which of course referred primarily to remote [...]
VUCA and CORONA, what are implications for innovation?
It’s my pleasure to share an edited transcript of an interview I gave with Eugene Hoeven May 2021 with whom shared some thoughts on innovation in a VUCA world in general, and a Corona world in [...]