Exponential Thinking

Understanding the concept and applying it (or trying to!)

Me myself and my mental health

It was early 2012 and I was laying on the floor in one of my mother’s spare bedrooms. The room was being decorated at the time and there was no bed or furniture. I was covered in ash — I smoked heavily back then — and I was continuously crying, I didn’t really know why? What…

Digital Doll

For a while now my good friend John Vary, has been encouraging me to write a blog about my 18 month experience of setting up a digital…

Work in progress

Every Monday in school the headteacher would read out, during the weekly assembly, a list of students to recognise stand out…

Raising Daughters

Last week to celebrate International Women’s Day a number of panels were organised during the day at work discussing various…

Creating Room Y

My name is John Vary and I am Innovation Manager at the John Lewis Partnership. I became a Partner with the John Lewis Partnership on Monday 6 January 2014. I joined from Burberry where I was Innovation Architect (2008–2013). Day one in the Partnership was mostly an immersion, unlocking what it…

2020: The next decade

The most common question I get asked is from people wanting to know what a Futurologist does. I have never really given…

5 golden rules for innovation teams

My name is Gavin Jones and I’ve recently become the Innovation Manager for the John Lewis…

A letter to my 16 year old self

I was recently asked the question- what advice I would give to my 16 year old self? I loved this…

Earth’s next mass extinction

“In the last half-billion years, life on Earth has been nearly wiped out five times — by such things as…