Category: Uncategorized

I am a “transition advocate” for innovation, ecosystems, energy, and sustainability. I explicitly focus on the industrial and energy systems that are radically changing our world, which provides me with a platform to understand, build, and recommend many dramatic changes taking place that are relevant across all business environments. Transformational insights are seen at the front end of the transitions that we are all undertaking where innovation drives these changes. These observations are providing the “fuel” to underpin my supportive … Continue reading “Transitions towards Innovation and Business Ecosystems”

Innovation has been central to my work in the past twenty years, in coaching, advisory, consulting, and mentoring roles building sustainability through evaluation, growth impact, and value creation alternatives. A depth in research and analysis, with a continued curiosity of change and exploring transitions, has built my understanding in thought leadership, and the recognition of the major shifts to ecosystem designs, to integrate into future business designs leading to focusing on how innovation impacts the Business Ecosystem in thinking and … Continue reading “Achieving Growth and Impact from Business Ecosystems”

In terms of reach and recognition, Agility’s client work has been broad and extensive across business and government sectors and globally.  Agility’s innovation work focuses on identifying today’s challenges and supporting the changes needed to build a sustainable future based on establishing a solid innovation core. Client work, the industry area and geographical focus We build frameworks that reflect today’s business needs and realities Sector consulting experience has included advising into: Electronic Contract Manufacturers, Telecommunications, Utility providers, E-business ventures, Restaurants … Continue reading “Agility’s extensive work in innovative framework-building”

I am a “transition advocate” for innovation, ecosystems, and sustainability specifically focusing on the industrial internet of things (IIoT) and energy systems that are radically changing our world My Innovation intent has been central to this period in consulting, mentoring, coaching and advising business entities, start-ups, not-for-profit and government agencies. This intent has progressively ‘funnelled down’ into recognizing the value of ecosystems as the business design for innovation in the future; to thrive and deliver more significant value creation, especially … Continue reading “Advocating for Change”

Place For Innovation Discoveries It does not matter what you want to achieve through workshops, seminars, training or innovation dialogues, we can provide the stimulating environment to bring these together. The workshop or dialogue itself, although important needs commitment and follow up. It has to have clear objectives.Here are some opening thoughts: How can we all broaden our perspectives? What gives us a safe space to think and develop? What allows us to ‘synthesize’ learning? What can be a stimulus for new … Continue reading “Finding Space for Discoveries”

Firstly we need to achieve Innovation Foresight It really is about knowing the needs, those that can be seen and articulated but also those that are the unmet needs, the jobs we are all struggling to complete but don’t have the ideal solutions to complete it without a lot of ‘spent’ energy and applying solutions designed for other issues. When we have foresight we need to look at both the external customer ones and to encourage the organizational ones that … Continue reading “Achieving Innovation Foresight and Seeing A New Core”

The Three Horizons can structure the mission and intent, it can frame the options, determine the resources and ‘paint’ the viewpoint of how to manage innovation across multiple horizons The workshop is introducing the multiple values and benefits this powerful methodology can offer for framing innovation. Why is it necessary? We so often struggle to articulate our innovation activity and then can’t seemingly project our plans into the future in consistent and coherent ways. We often lack the framing necessary. … Continue reading “The Value of the Three Horizon Workshop”

The Work Mat Approach This work mat approach illustrates our unique approach to ‘working out’ your solutions in novel ways. We need to ‘wrestle’ with the problems but in a creative way Getting a thorough any workout makes us all feel ‘fitter’. These can be brain storming, structured design or collectively working through a difficult problem.  We use our ‘work mat’ approach that helps you ‘wrestle to the ground’ your unique challenges. We can tackle different problems through this work mat … Continue reading “Wrestling with a work mat approach wins”

Designing Unique Workshops Finding opportunities for Innovation and Growth is hard work. We design our workshops to meet your needs, to push the thinking and to generate new returns in innovation understanding. Our workshop are designed to help you need to think through many areas of productive innovation opportunity. For example: 1. Understand the trends and drivers in your industry as well as explore alternative perspectives allows you to look at not just ‘best practice’ but leading and emerging practice. … Continue reading “Designing Unique Workshops just for you!”

We need a crisis, a shock! A priority shift is required for innovation– in leadership, responsibility, accountability, overcoming the reluctance to innovate. “Even though it is important and we want to do innovation, we believe that there are many more important things in an organization to be done……..” As a result we do these more important things and by the time we come to the just important ones we have run out of time and we never do it.” “Unfortunately, … Continue reading “Innovation thrives at times of crisis, or should do”