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One thing that the top performing Silicon Valley companies have in common

I was lucky enough to spend the first week of November on Inventium’s Silicon Valley Tour, visiting some of the world’s most innovative organisations in and around San Francisco. There was a huge range of amazing takeaways from the week, but one that really stuck with me was…

Imogen Aitken • 13 February 2019

What leaders of the world’s most innovative companies do differently

Have you ever noticed how some organisational leaders thrive in the face of change and disruption, while others somehow manage to lead their company into an abyss of irrelevance? (Did someone say ‘Kodak’?). There’s a whole lot of factors that can contribute…

Zoe Aitken • 26 October 2018

It’s time to celebrate failure

I have always had an issue with celebrating “failure”. It doesn’t feel right. Heart failure, structural failure – the term often implies catastrophic and permanent results. We definitely shouldn’t be celebrating those. To take a step back, my background is in chemical…

Nick Johnston • 26 October 2018

The journey to becoming a “creative-type”

Creativity is an important part of innovation. The more creative ideas we can come up with, the more likely we are to find a new way to solve a customer problem, and therefore, to be innovative. Given creativity is important for innovation, have you ever thought how “creative”…

Dr. Linda Sands • 26 October 2018

Do instant messaging applications kill creativity?

I’ve been doing a lot of keynote speaking of late on the topic of creating the perfect workday. I discuss things such as how to get focused work done in the age of digital distraction, how to free up time for innovation, how to best structure your day to remain…

Dr. Amantha Imber • 26 October 2018

‘Think differently!’ How to make sure it’s not a phrase filling airspace

‘Think differently’, says the poster of values as you come out of the lifts and into the office. And while that’s great advice, and the brain is capable of many amazing feats, thinking differently because you’re told to ‘think differently’ is perhaps not one of them. So how do…

Lucy Zucker • 10 September 2018

How to be like Facebook (but in the best possible way)

I have just finished reading an excellent book called “The Four” which charts the world domination of Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google. It’s filled with a huge number of interesting insights, too many to cover here. It is only one sentence of 10,000 buried deep in the Facebook chapter…

Imogen Aitken • 10 September 2018

Why you need to challenge the status quo

  “…because that’s the way we’ve always done it.”  This has to be my most despised reason for keeping things the way they are. Early in my career, I worked in a number of jobs where management was very protective of the status quo. They were taught that way, so…

• 19 July 2018

How to get rich customer insights in three simple steps

Businesses live and die by the decisions that their customers (or non-customers) make each and every day. Ultimately, it’s our customers that decide whether or not our innovations are a huge success or a whopping failure. So it makes sense that when we want to identify our next big innovation…

Nick Johnston • 12 July 2018