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…

5 things I learnt to avoid hitting ‘The Wall’

My name is Amber Marriott and I’m an Innovation Engineer in RoomY, the John…

Tomorrow’s World: 2030

“What does tomorrow look like?” a question I frequently get asked. Admittedly this is a very tough question to answer, especially if you approach it with a conservative mindset. To help me better answer this question, I decided to step back and think differently. Rather than looking at…

Fear

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond…

Resilience

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noun
1. the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.
“the often remarkable…

Born Innovators

As children, we are born with a natural curiosity and incessantly ask, ‘why?’. It is a sign of our intense fascination with the world around us as we try to unearth the mysticism which shrouds Mother Earth in all her head-scratching complexity and jaw-dropping beauty. As we mature and enter…

10 things I’ve learnt as a software developer from innovation

That time of the year

We are approaching that time of the year when we start to look back and reflect on the things we have done, both at work…

Customers of the Future

Digital technology and ever changing consumer habits are reshaping the retail landscape at a rate which will leave…