futures

Helen King interview transcript

Posted on December 3rd, 2014 by John Bessant

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  

Activity – Futures for innovation

Posted on October 21st, 2014 by John Bessant

Innovation futures  This activity offers an opportunity to explore the challenges in different scenarios for the future of innovation.

Activity – Forces for innovation

Posted on October 21st, 2014 by John Bessant

Forces for innovation This activity explores some of the forces shaping innovation and how they play out over time.

Using the 4Ps approach to explore innovation space

Posted on October 5th, 2014 by John Bessant

This is an activity designed to help explore using the 4Ps framework. There is also an interactive quiz based on this approach – click here For more information on the 4Ps tool click here    

Search strategies for peripheral vision

Posted on June 23rd, 2014 by Sarah Booth

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

The innovation challenge of cybercrime

Posted on June 23rd, 2014 by Sarah Booth

This report, by Howard Rush and Puay Tang of CENTRIM, looks at the innovation race in the shadowy world of online crime.  

Helen King – Futures thinking

Posted on June 23rd, 2014 by Sarah Booth

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

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Futures toolkit

Posted on June 23rd, 2014 by Sarah Booth

Futures toolkit