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Why is measuring innovation so difficult?

February 25, 2020
Proving the value of innovation isn’t easy. So we’re starting a conversation about getting better at measuring the work we all do. Read More

Testing innovative ideas to solve social problems

December 16, 2019
Jessie Wilde is Deputy Project Director at Bristol Housing Festival. Here Jessie shares what she’s learnt from leading the country’s first real life testing ground for housing innovation. Read More

Innovation experts solve your top innovation challenges

December 13, 2019
We asked you to tell us your top innovation challenges, then we asked four innovation experts for their solutions. Read on to find out what they said. Read More

Tackling innovation challenges in the city of Bristol

November 22, 2019
The Innovation Programme Manager for Bristol Energy shares his experiences of delivering innovation projects with the One City Plan and what blocks him from innovating better. While at Bristol City Council my role focused on continuous improvement. In practice this meant supporting departments to... Read More

What are OKRs and how do they work?

October 25, 2019
We take a brief look at 'the simple idea that drives 10x growth', which emerged from Intel in the 1950s and famously inspired the founders of a little startup called Google. Read More

How to measure end-to-end portfolio performance

September 27, 2019
In this fourth and final part in this series of guest posts, enterprise investment specialist Chris Potts, focuses on end-to-end portfolio management, concluding that – from ideas to outcomes – it’s all one portfolio. Read More

How to generate ideas – tools and techniques for ideation

September 23, 2019
You'll want to capture all the ideas that emerge from your organisation, as and when they arise, but here are nine ways to give the process a helping hand. Read More

Dynamic investment, flexible delivery

September 17, 2019
In this third instalment of his series of opinion pieces, enterprise investment specialist Chris Potts suggests that flexibility and speed-to-outcomes can drive momentum and help make better choices. Read More

What makes a good hypothesis?

September 05, 2019
A carefully chosen and well-written hypothesis makes it easy to design an experiment to test and learn from. So here are six steps to follow when crafting your prediction. Read More

Why some ideas work better than others

August 27, 2019
In the latest in his series of opinion pieces, enterprise investment specialist Chris Potts suggests the Airbus A380 is a case in point of how investing in change is about working with diverse probabilities of success. Read More
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