collaboration

Back in the mid-80s my first foray into interactive multimedia was as assistant to a charismatic maverick called Patrick D. Martin, who’d bought a group of multi-skilled people together as QNet to develop new systems to realise the Roboshow. I’d mentioned this involvement in the early days of interactive and video art to Mike Stubbs, [...]

A recent article by Dr Paul Marsden in Contagious Magazine positions crowdsourcing as a recession proof strategy. The basic theory is that you get better informed product development and product enhancement with crowdsourcing, as well as better aligned supply and demand through online customer collaboration. The promise being that you can introduce your brand to [...]

One of the areas we looked at in our research into collaborative innovation with Dr Alain Samson at the London School of Economics on behalf of NESTA was the difficulties surrounding the more ‘intangible’ aspects of managing innovation e.g. where accountancy doesn’t prove to be particularly useful. Many large organisations claim to have excellent and [...]

As part of our extended research for NESTA last year we’ve briefly looked into strategic management innovation. It was one of the horizontal categories of their Connect arm’s Corporate Open Innovation (COI) Framework. One school of thought represented by the likes of London Business School’s Management Innovation Lab has focused on strategic management innovation from [...]

Last year we carried out a pilot research project on behalf of NESTA. The project was prefaced by the following quote from General Patton: If everyone is thinking the same thing, someone is not thinking! Our point being that there’s a danger of getting caught up in a vortex of self-affirming opinion when developing a [...]