Forward Thinking

Predicting 2013: The 5 Most Influential ‘Events’ of the Next Year

Context is crucial to the success of any innovation, so to whet your appetite for our 2013 mega-trends (which we will share on Monday), here are the predictions from our expert 'crowd' on what will be...

2nd January 2013   |   3 minute read

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Why Innovators must be Pigs

There is an old riddle: In a bacon-and-egg sandwich, what's the difference between the Chicken and the Pig? Answer: The Chicken is involved, but the Pig is committed! This leads us to one of the ke...

24th December 2012   |   3 minute read

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It’s not big, but it is clever

Watching BBC Sports Personality of the Year left us pondering the great sporting achievements of 2012; not least how Bradley Wiggins – a mod from Kilburn – managed to lift the Tour de France and t...

19th December 2012   |   3 minute read

Speed Summaries

Imagine: How Creativity Works [Speed Summary]

Imagine: How Creativity Works Author: Jonah Lehrer Publisher: Houghton Publication: 2012 Here's how creativity works - you sweat a problem until you get frustrated, then a flash of insight (epiph...

10th December 2012   |   3 minute read

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Over 60’s Women: The Innovation Opportunity [Insight Video]

They are female, wealthy and active. And they are an expanding demographic with disposable income to burn. Already making up over 10% of the population, the cohort of Boomer women over 60 is set to g...

5th December 2012   |   3 minute read

Speed Summaries

How Brands Grow [Speed Summary]

How Brands Grow: What Marketers Don't Know Author: Byron Sharp Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication: 2011 How Brands Grow: What Marketers Don't Know (HBG) is one of those business bestse...

28th November 2012   |   3 minute read

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Less Creativity, More “Recreativity” Please…

You know what creativity is - producing something different that has impact - but what about recreativity? Today's post from WordSpy gives you the lowdown on recreativity: recreativity n. Repurpos...

21st November 2012   |   3 minute read

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Natural Inspiration for Innovation: Richard Hammond’s Miracles of Nature

At Brand Genetics, we believe in the awesome creative power of evolution; nature has spent 3.5 billion years producing ingenious answers to many of the innovation problems that our clients face tod...

19th November 2012   |   3 minute read

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A Co-Creation Primer from The Harvard Business Review

What is co-creation anyway? Depends who you ask.  For us it most often means adding the voice of the user into the innovation process, not as passive respondents, but as active participants.  Of cou...

13th November 2012   |   3 minute read

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Cool Co-Creation Examples: Heineken

Heineken Open Design Explorations Edition 1: The Club What does the future of clubbing look like?  Co-creation can give you an answer. Global brewer Heineken recruited a virtual team of 19 young eme...

12th November 2012   |   3 minute read

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20 Examples of Cool Innovative Packaging in FMCG

We do a lot of innovation work in the fmcg/cpg groceries category, and so we're big fans of the P&G-inspired "Moments of Truth" approach to innovation which puts a big premium on packaging and pac...

9th November 2012   |   3 minute read

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Don’t Innovate, Imitate!

We're re-reading one of our latest favourite business books in order to prepare a speed summary for clients, Obed Shenkar's; Copycats: How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge. We'...

6th November 2012   |   3 minute read