Category Archives: innovation

iRobots

I’ve spent the last couple of days at Creative Innovation and I’ve really enjoyed the verbal fencing between Ray Kurzweil and Dan Dennett, but they both stopped short of delving into the meatiest part of the future. For this post I’m going to take as a given that the singularity is approaching fast and that

Rapid prototyping within Innovation

As we grow up we are all taught to create a finished piece of work which we then hand over for marking. This continues through school, higher education and into our work places. This is not, however, the optimal way of working. The theory behind Rapid Prototyping in Innovation is to create the simplest, cheapest

Thoughtless innovation

Where do ideas come from? It’s a good question as they seem to appear from nowhere. And that’s because they do. Ideas are created when the spaces between thoughts and knowledge are filled up. It’ s the chemical snap of the synapse that sparks the neurons and closes a gap in human understanding. So where

Just because you can

Doesn’t mean you should. Take the can of self heating coffee that tempts so … drink me, I’m warm and you’re not, I have caffeine … Now the problem with this innovation is not that the can is, impressively, self heating; no, that’s a great idea that has been tested, developed and succeeds. The problem is