What is your Blackpool Tower?

Imagine that I showed you photographs of the beach fronts at Brighton, Bognor Regis and Bournemouth and asked you which was which. Most people would find it difficult to tell them apart. 

Now suppose I added a photo of Blackpool. Nearly everyone would recognise it. Why? Because it has an enormous iron tower that is [...]

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Next Meeting of the Innovation Unit

Innovation in a competitive environment – BQF seminar kindly hosted by Glaxo Smith Kline at their Weybridge offices on 3 Nov.  Non-members are welcome http://ping.fm/O2Nt6   The speakers are from the consumer products division of GSK and include:

Simon Gunson, VP, New Product Development and Site Director

Alexis Roberts-Macintosh, VP, Aquafresh Future Team R&D

Peter Harding, VP,  Aquafresh [...]

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The Only We Can Exercise

I was speaking at a Vistage event last week and one of the delegates suggested something which I would recommend as a source of innovation thinking.  Gather some of your people together and write the following phrase at the top of a flipchart, ‘Only we can………’  Each member of the group then has to complete [...]

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Organising for Innovation

I am speaking on Organising for Innovation at an event for the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Construction Industry Group, on Jan 29th 2009.

http://www.cimcig.org/events.php?id=211

It starts at 6.30 at the Building Centre on Store Street, WC1.  Non-members are welcome though there is a small charge.  If you are free after work that evening why not [...]

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