The Innovation Diaries

In response to 50 Reasons Not To Change, based on a 16 year old handout.

As true believers in change, and as part of an ongoing experiment, we’re going to run a “Cynic Clinic”. Email us at cynicclinic@theinnovationdiaries.com or comment below with a valid argument you’re heard “not to change” and we’ll be back in touch [...]

Did you know that the average person laughs 7 times a day at work? For me, that is a gross underestimate - I get the giggles closer to 20-30 times every day! So I’ve been asking around, and it seems that the original number is pretty close, but, here’s the rub, for only those friends [...]

Make Way For Generation A
“They may earn only about £2,000 a year but they are 400 million-strong, scattered across the globe and have just bought themselves a fridge - meet Generation A, who soon could become the most important economic force on Earth.”
UK Shoppers Can Now Buy Milk In A Bag
“It is claimed that the [...]

Familiar territory to anyone who remembers Michael Douglas ordering a “sorry, miserable, squashed” Whammy Burger, it’s worth checking out one man’s continuing mission to divide fiction from reality in the world of fast food. It’s a simple concept really - buy something from your local McDonalds, Burger King, KFC or other fast food outlet, take [...]

I spent the day yesterday with the Soil Association at Highgrove. There was a mixed bag of guests, mostly Soil Association members. I was surprised at some of the products certified by the organisation, not just agricultural goods but toiletries and clothing too.
We spent the morning touring some of the 900 acres of [...]

We have 1,800 new hard working ?What If!ers! Our newly acquired wormery has got a new home on the patio at the Glassworks. It will take a month or so for the worms to settle down, so we’ve asked everyone to leave them alone for a bit. Soon we’ll be able to feed them.
They love [...]

The freshness of innovation often depends on how well you can break existing habits.
Drilling into this topic you can hit a genuine well of innovation energy: igniting the idea engine, sustaining you through the challenging parts and fuelling the process of making things happen. But the art of “unlearning” might not be as elusive as [...]

How impassioned student movements for social change can teach executives about innovation
“To transform the core, start at the edge. For many executives, when core business activities require fundamental change, the strong instinct is to embark on massive organizational changes. These organizational transformations rarely succeed. An alternative path is to start on the edge and move [...]