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It’s the time of year when letters are getting hastily scribbled and sent to the old gentleman in Lapland expressing preferences for possible presents. This is a sample from a somewhat frustrated but ever hopeful innovation manager…. ⁠You can find the lyrics and a rich assortment of other innovation resources - songs, cases, videos, podcasts, tools, etc. - at my website here www.johnbessant.org

But we've had these kinds of predictions before srTechnological revolutions don't happen every day. But there is a pattern to them and we can learn from studying previous examples, such as the IT/microelectronics revolution of forty years ago. This podcast/video tries to capture some key lessons for the future from looking at those patterns. Right now the AI story is everywhere. We're surrounde...

What we can learn from the past to help navigate the AI storm This podcast looks back at the experience of earlier technological revolutions to find some clues about how we might deal with this one You can find a transcript of this podcast here (open.substack.com/pub/johnbessant/p/ai-through-the-rear-view-mirror?r=hosnt&showWelcomeOnShare=true) And check out my website here (johnbessant.org) fo...

The ISO recently launched its 56000 series of standards related to management of innovation. This video podcast explores what they contain and what the implications are for how we organize and manage innvation.

An interview with Luis Carlos Pinto describing the creation and operation of the Pacto Alegre, an innovation ecosystem in southern Brazil which brings together key universities, companies, public sector and city agencies to regenerate economic growth and imporve social stability and living standards.

How having an innovation management standard can help - and why it might get in the way (you can find a transcript for this podcast at the 'Managing innovation' website, (johnbessant.org) together with many other useful resources - please check it out) A standard is an old word for a flag. Back in the days of sailing ships you could see a forest of them fluttering at the stern of ships of all s...

Wandering around Chicago in 1912 William Klann was a man on a mission. He was part of a team set up to explore ways in which they could reduce the costs of manufacturing a car to fulfil Henry Ford’s vision of ‘a motor car for the great multitude’. They had already developed many of the ideas behind mass production - standardized and interchangeable parts, short task cycle work, specialist machi...

This is module 10 of the short online course on Effective entrepreneurship. See www.johnbessant.org for more information about this and other courses under thew 'Learn with me' tab

An interview with Helle Vibeke Carstensen, Innovation Manager with the Danish Ministry of Taxation

Why high involvement innovation matters more than ever - and how to make it happen We’ve always known that employees could be a source of ideas, especially in terms of improving the processes in which they work. Suggestion schemes have been around in some form or other back in the mists of time. Elements of the approach can be found in the medieval guild system where it was used to help develop...

⁠You can find a transcript together with many other innovation-related resources at my website here⁠ (What these stories have in common is that they are working on the same problem, just in a different context. This is a powerful resource in innovation - answers don’t always have to be new to the world, they can also be adapted from different contexts. Recombinant innovation.)

Responsible innovation (masquerading under many different labels over time) is now highly visible in conversations around innovation. Whether we’re looking at AI or genetic engineering or geo-engineering we can see the issues being widely debated and discussed. Organizations, public and private, are increasingly measured on their commitment to thinking and acting responsibly in terms of key the...

Why innovation isn't always a good thing - and what we can do to manage that. You can find a transcript, together with many other resources - video, audio, cases, tools, activities, etc - to help explore innovation management at my website here. (johnbessant.org)

How one man's innovation helped trigger a revolution in agricultural productivity. Harry Ferguson is not a name which instantly springs to mind when thinking of entrepreneurs who changed the course of history. Yet his contribution to the world of agriculture was on a level with that of Steve Jobs in terms of providing the enabling platform which allowed the full impact of a technology - in his ...

Hitching a ride to higher productivity

Cartography matters! - the importance of maps in navigating the uncertain journey of innovation

Cartography matters! - the importance of maps in navigating the uncertain journey of innovation

Meeting the sustainability challenge through impact intrapreneurship

Impact intrepreneurship - leveraging the power of organizations for social innovation

In the (innovation) soup....

In the innovation soup

AI is a no-brainer...

AI is a no brainer....

Irrelevant innovation - why change isn't always a good thing

Irrelevant innovation

It's not (only) what you know! Using value networks to scale innovation

It's not (only) what you know...

Beating the scaling innovation blues

Beating the scaling innovation blues