(Some inspiration from a sparkly-eyed friend, Andrew Campnona.)

Today came across this interesting effort to encourage more creativity inside the UK Government. Really great to see creativity being taken this seriously, but doesn’t it also need to be… well, fun?
“The Creativity Lab encourages all participants to express their views freely as the facilitated process and technology allows all participants to preserve the anonymity [...]

One of my all-time favourite ads, and a blast from the (Apple advertising) past. Here’s to thinking ‘different’, as though it were far more than an adverb! It’s a simple but powerful message. Just discovered a fan-made remake of this featuring Madonna, Michael Moore and Derren Brown!

Nike tells us that corporate responsibility must evolve:

We know a better shoe sacrifices nothing, except what didn’t belong there to begin with. The same can be said for corporate responsibility. It shouldn’t be about business tradeoffs, managing problems and mitigating risks. It should be about harnessing innovation to create something new and better”
For me this [...]

Another first for the Middle East. Bahrain’s busy skyline now includes the world’s first building with integrated wind turbines! It is a twin sky-scraper complex that generates power from the on-shore Gulf breeze ‘funnelling’ through it (the wind has to come at it from the right direction, as the turbines don’t turn). There are three [...]

Silo-thinking is a big barrier to change today. Working with the best new ideas coming through right now requires a new level of visibility. My sense is that we are witnessing ever more cross-pollination and horizontal integration across previously disparate agendas. And while this is happening throughout society, we spot it in some places before [...]

Nothing helps us focus on the map better than knowing that there’s a pot of gold at the X. The X Prize Foundation is all about focusing our attention on innovation, and through high-profile competitions they’ve stimulated a huge wave of private enterprise in relation to space travel, genomics and automobility. It is [...]