Mckinsey Creates Design Thinkers Index
As design thinking nears its half century birthday, it seems it is big news still for some large corporates. While the core of the innovation and creative world have been busy […]
What Imogen Heap has to teach us about Innovation
Imogen Heap is known for her experimental approach in the creative arts, so in many ways it comes as little surprise she is a big fan of the opportunities ‘Blockchain’ […]
Will a robot take your job ?
Interesting debate with some students we are teaching about innovation this week. We have been discussing AI, Robotics, Machine Learning,The SIngularity and all these exciting tech-driven futures. They suddenly got […]
Open Innovation What Next
Open Innovation is a theory of innovation coined by Henry Chesbrough in his 2003 book ‘Open Innovation’. He talked about innovation that is not vertically integrated, but that happens as […]
Nooglers and Googlers
Imagine loving your job enough to wear a hat like this during your induction ? The Ideas Machine went to Google HQ at Mountain View and we saw some pretty […]
300 year old theory challenges today's innovators
At The Ideas Machine, we love stuff like this… some Cambridge boffins have been looking into extreme innovation ( talking our language). They have explored some ideas by Francis Bacon […]
Future of retail: Tech enhances real world experiences
Great article from the ever reliable blog PSFK, Ray Velez of Razorfish on the ways retailers are using digtial tech to enhance real world shopping experiences. We at The Ideas Machine […]
Happy Anniversary
One year in, The Ideas Machine is still getting great teams together to work on challenging, ground-breaking projects. Founder Victoria Harrison-Mirauer is working as Faculty in the Innovation and Strategy […]
Funding Circle Ad Goes Live
The Ideas Machine is delighted to have been a part of creating this fantastic ad. We’ve been working with Media partners Squadron Venture London and client Funding Circle to deliver […]
Make the Impossible Possible
Bill Strickland’s book titled Make the Impossible Possible is the story of how a projects drop out ended up lecturing at Harvard and transforming the lives of thousands. Bill’s belief that […]
Disrupt or be Disrupted
The New Yorker’s Jill Lepore writes eloquently about the impact of the ‘cult like’ followers of Clayton Christensen’s theory ‘Disruptive Innovation’ an answer to the question why do organisations fail […]
Amazing story of the two thousand year old computer
History has masses of lessons for innovators, and The Ideas Machine team love this one…. hail the Antikythera. Acknowledged as a work of genius, it is a effectively an ‘analog’ […]