This is a transcript of the interview with Helen King talking about the use of futures techniques for the Irish food industry. helen King Tobias Rooney interview You can find the interview here
8 Forecasting Emerging Opportunities for Innovation
Responsible innovation framework
Innovation is not always for the best and sometimes changes which seem positive at the time turn out to have hidden or unexpected consequences. Richard Owen and colleagues have been looking at this challenge and have developed a framework for thinking about ‘responsible innovation’. You can find a link to the (open access) core article
Search strategies for peripheral vision
This report looks at how a variety of companies and public sector organizations are exploring at the edges of their environment. It describes experiences with a wide range of search strategies to help identify and anticipate discontinuous innovation. Click here to access the report: Twelve searchstrategies
Helen King – Futures thinking
Futures thinking at Bord Bia This podcast is an interview with Helen King, who is Senior Business Analyst with Bord Bia , the body responsible for supporting the food and drink industry in Ireland; and Tobias Rooney, who’s a Principal with Innovaro, a major innovation consultancy. It particularly explores his experience with the use of
Futures toolkit
Futures toolkit
Benchmarking
Spot the ball
Click to access the resource: Spot the ball
Discontinuous innovation audit
This self-assessment framework is designed to help organizations reflect on how well placed they are to deal with the challenges of discontinuous innovation. How well do they search, select and implement? How do they handle the challenges of building linkages into new innovation space and reframing the approaches which they take to innovation? Do they
Philips Lighting – changing direction
Click here to view case study: Philips
The changing music industry
This case looks at the dramatic recent shifts in the music industry driven by technological and social innovation

Activities

Cases

Deeper Dives
- Sector Innovation Patterns
- Search strategies for peripheral vision
- Responsible innovation framework
- Policy Deployment Cases
- Intelligent design
- High involvement innovation – deep dive
- Deep dive: Frugal innovation
- Deep dive – Supply chain learning
- Deep dive – Servitization
- Deep dive – Open and user led innovation – OUI
