I delivered this session for 50 innovators from the Capital Enterprise network. Here is a list of times and topics to help you dip in & out: “Julia gave an incredible webinar for Capital Enterprise last week. I’ve been an Innovation Catalyst for decades (yeah, yeah, a know-it-all) and I still learned so much. And […]
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I spent the first 12 years of my career, post Law Degree, at a “startup” mobile operator called One2One. It was a joint venture between Cable & Wireless and US West and it became a pioneer in launching the first UK consumer-targeted mobile phone in 1993. It became T-Mobile and is now EE. During my […]
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Are you thinking about how to commercialise your research? Perhaps you wonder how to turn an idea into a commercial product or service? Fancy yourself as an innovator? Or just want a better understanding of business in practice? Perhaps you just want to make the world a better place? These teaser questions were posed to […]
Read More »It’s August and I just realised that I did not do my 2018 update – I guess a good sign – been busy! It was great to continue my relationships with some existing clients and to get involved with a new hub for new sports-related businesses. I ran more business-related workshops helping Physics PhDs at […]
Read More »My Practical Innovation workshop scored very well last week with Sepnet 2nd Year Physics PhDs, so I was asked to share more about what went on: Positioned for those who wanted to change the world through innovation; commercialise an idea or just find out more about business, participants told us this was a “…fun, engaging, […]
Read More »I have found myself being a little nostalgic over the past month, both as a result of going to a “25 years since launch” reunion of Mercury one2one (the first mass consumer mobile offering in the UK – which morphed to T-Mobile and then to EE) and through collaboration with Tristan Kromer of Kromatic. I […]
Read More »I spent the largest part of 2017 in corporate-land working with different levels of the organisation to embed the decision making structures, behaviours, processes and leadership required to enable teams on the ground to embed a more “lean” practice. It can be dangerous to coach teams on the ground to adopt lean innovation practice without […]
Read More »In 2016, as Product Doctor, I worked with an interesting and diverse range of clients: As a Product Coach at Pearson Education I continued to work with teams across the business to improve efficient and effective decision-making deploying best lean practice. Some call it the “Lean Enterprise”. It strikes me, having worked out of Hong […]
Read More »Synthesising what we learnt about real customers from practice research interviews held during our Customer Development Workshop. Reflections: How the team felt they could improve their own research skills – thanks to observers for both keeping quiet during the customer interviews and providing such great feedback back to the interviewers!
Read More »Please flick through this report that I put together to show the outcomes of this project – the bringing together of a very diverse group of people for real life business learning. I love how one thing leads to another; my specialist “Lean” Tutor on the academy brought me in as a Product Coach to […]
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