28th November, 2019
How I Did (Not) Create the Raspberry Pi
Ten years ago I was working for a company which developed low power multimedia processors. My role was to design and...
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18th November, 2019
Genetic Sequencing: Medical and Life Insurance
This is the third blog by Peter in his series ‘Disruptive Tech’. ...
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29th October, 2019
Harvest Innovation - Changes in Agriculture
On 6th November, the NEC in Birmingham will open its doors to the Farm...
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22nd October, 2019
What is Intuitive Design?
Companies often desire for a product or service to be ‘intuitive to use’ or incorporate...
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07th October, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Patents and Coca-Cola – Is It Always the Real Thing?
Coca-Cola’s recipe is one of the best kept trade secrets in the world. Developed by a pharmacist, it has been...
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19th September, 2019
Disruption Summit Europe 2019: Playing with Lego
‘Radical innovation is becoming normal’ was a recurring theme at this...
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12th September, 2019
Lab Grown: Meat to meet consumer demand
In this blog, Peter Debenham gives his opinion on the future of the meat industry, and its disruptive lab-grown...
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04th September, 2019
Ideas Are Not Enough
People often see idea creation as the most important aspect of innovation. We hear people lament, “if only I...
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22nd August, 2019
No Job Description Here. Create Your Own Future.
The classic quote goes: “hard skills get you the interview; soft skills get you the...
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14th August, 2019
How Electric Cars Will Change the World
Imagine this front page heading in your newspaper tomorrow morning: “Electric car sales reach 25%: All...
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30th July, 2019
Tomorrow's World: A.I. and Natural Language Speech Processing
In this blog series, resident IEX Senior Consultant, Peter Debenham, shares his predictions for how certain...
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12th July, 2019
Why innovation partnerships should be more like a physio and less like a doctor.
Several years ago I had needed to seek the advice of UK doctors and physiotherapists to try to treat a long-standing...
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25th June, 2019
Innovation learnings from a designer
The Front End Innovation (FEI) Europe conference was held last week in parallel with the larger ISPIM...
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21st June, 2019
A new way forward, proposing the IEX way
This is the final blog of our 5 part Ignite Innovation blog series from the Head of Ignite Exponential, Alan...
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19th June, 2019
An observation about innovation collaborations…
This is the fourth blog of our 5 part Ignite Innovation blog series from the Head of Ignite Exponential, Alan...
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12th June, 2019
How your process (might) get in the way of strategic innovation
This is the third blog of our 5 part ‘Ignite Innovation’ blog series from the Head of Ignite...
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06th June, 2019
Why is repeatable innovation so hard… (and what you can do about it)
This is the second blog of our 5 part "Ignite Innovation" series from the Head of Ignite Exponential,...
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04th June, 2019
What can we learn about innovation from water lilies?
This is the first blog of our 5 part "Ignite Innovation" series from the Head of Ignite Exponential,...
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30th May, 2019
Toronto's Innovation Explosion
I led a workshop in Toronto last week exploring the need for strategic innovation and some...
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20th May, 2019
5 things that inspired us at Boston Innovation Festival 2019
This year’s FEI Boston was one of the...
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14th May, 2019
Why Plextek created Ignite Exponential
Customers have been asking us to solve some of the hardest engineering problems for nearly thirty years. In...
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