by Gavin Heaton | Oct 25, 2021 | Digital Transformation, Innovation
The pandemic has been a time of unexpected innovation for many organisations. Without warning, the digital transformations that many of us have been championing found new pathways and momentum. Everything from enabling remote work to reimagining customer service was...
by Joanne Jacobs | Oct 4, 2021 | Innovation, Trends
Last week I presented at the Peter Vickers Business group event, on the invitation of Denise Archie from Coaching College. I was charged with preparing an overview of innovation trends and coming up with some tools to help build business resilience. Attending were...
by Gavin Heaton | Jun 29, 2020 | Collaboration, Digital Disruption, Future of Work, Innovation
There is no doubt that COVID19 has changed the business consulting landscape. Gone are the workshops, whiteboards and post-it notes. Gone are the design thinking group activities and team building exercises like our favourite marshmallow challenge. In their place are...
by Gavin Heaton | Mar 3, 2020 | Accelerator Programs, Blog Posts, Case Studies, Digital Disruption, Innovation, Social Impact, Social Innovation
One of the promises of a social impact and wellbeing focused technology accelerator like unboxd was the opportunity to not just change, but radically transform, lives. For the greater good. When we talk about technology and innovation, it can sometimes sound like...
by Joanne Jacobs | Jul 27, 2019 | Accelerator Programs, Case Studies, Innovation, Intrapreneurship
Social impact and wellbeing are hot topics at present. We are seeing increasing focus from corporates, not-for-profits, social enterprises and governments seeking to generate, deliver and measure social impact at scale, with downstream transformation of...
by Joanne Jacobs | May 14, 2019 | Innovation, Intrapreneurship
So you’ve heard of the ‘entrepreneurs’, but what about ‘intrapreneurs’? The term ‘intrapreneur’ was first coined in the 1980s when author Gifford Pinchot defined it in his book Intrapreneuring: Why You Don’t Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur, as...
