OpenForIdeas

This year I’ve been on something of a strange and alarming journey. I’ve remarked time and again that the world seems to have stopped…

In 2010 IBM’s annual study of CEOs reported that the skill they sought most was creativity. Not organisation or timeliness or the ability…

Most organisations nowadays have an ambition to be more creative but, despite what they say most are not prepared to do what it takes…

(Or what a failed newspaper can teach us about the importance of truly understanding what your customers want)

Many great ideas have died a death from being badly presented to the people that matter. To make sure you don’t fall at that last hurdle…

When you’ve been working in an organisation for some time, it’s often hard to think beyond the politics, assumptions and perceived…

The tech sector is spending an awful lot of energy and resources developing Artificial Intelligence and the media are lapping up this brave…

When I started off in the advertising industry of the early 90s, I caught the tail end of the decadent era. Those stories about fancy cars…

Many of us struggle to listen effectively at least some of the time. The odd thing is that we can listen. It’s just that we often don’t in…