strategic innovation & design

Perspectives — value creation

Three Lenses to Understand and Demystify Innovation

culture & capability value creation

Three Lenses to Understand and Demystify Innovation

Innovation is a word in very broad usage, but it can be hard to pin down exactly what people mean when talking about it. When organisations don’t have a common language to talk about innovation, inevitably there are misunderstandings about goals, expectations and outcomes. Three lenses can help to demystify innovation 

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Evolving Design Thinking for Sustainability and Equitability

design insight shared value & ecosystems value creation

Evolving Design Thinking for Sustainability and Equitability

The great success of design thinking has been to instil, in corporate innovation teams and entrepreneurial start-ups alike, the need to consider the triumvirate of Desirability, Feasibility and Viability. But an additional focus on Equitability will be essential to succeeding in the operating environment of the future.

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Creativity, Invention and Innovation

culture & capability design insight value creation

Creativity, Invention and Innovation

If you can generate new ideas you are creative // If you can develop these ideas into new products, services or experiences you are inventive // If from these inventions you can create value for customers, stakeholders, society and for your organisation you are innovative

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Blockchain - Trust, Transparency & Shared Value in Global Networks

business models & platforms digital & 4IR technologies value creation

Blockchain - Trust, Transparency & Shared Value in Global Networks

In a digital, globalised world, with all the concomitant concerns of authenticity, biosecurity, financial security and money laundering, blockchain technologies are set to enable rapid, cost effective identity management, asset tracking, compliance and certainty of transaction completion.

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3D Printing - Empowering Sustainable, Distributed Manufacturing

digital & 4IR technologies value creation value propositions

3D Printing - Empowering Sustainable, Distributed Manufacturing

3D printing is ushering in a new atomic model for physical objects and a new era of pan-industrial competition. Any factory anywhere can potentially manufacture not just parts, but complete products for any number of industries, continually iterate and hyper-personalise these at low cost in response to market demand.

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