by Joanne Jacobs | Apr 18, 2016 | Hackathons, HealthTech, Innovation, Startups
Every conversation, article and blog post about disruption or innovation carries with it a subtext. And that subtext is loaded with fear. Suspicion. Trepidation. All of us – from entrepreneurs and innovators, artists, creatives, small business owners to “captains of...
by Joanne Jacobs | Apr 6, 2016 | Digital Transformation, Employee Engagement, Enterprise Disruption, Future of Work, Hackathons, Innovation, Innovation Brand
Hackathons have proven to be a great model for technology companies continue their innovation agenda. By tapping into internal teams and external developer communities, the problem solving capacity of an organisation can increase exponentially. Held usually outside of...
by Joanne Jacobs | Jan 27, 2016 | Digital Transformation, Hackathons, Innovation
2015 could well have been called the “Year of the Hackathon”. It seemed like every second weekend there was a hackathon of some kind – focusing on fashion, technology, transport, publishing or even health – with the idea of unleashing innovation in a previously...
by Joanne Jacobs | Aug 19, 2015 | Innovation
In our latest Handbook, we explore how to foster innovation with what we call the Distributed Research and Development (‘Distributed R&D’) method. This differs from traditional enterprise oriented R&D, not just because it takes advantage of Lean...
by Joanne Jacobs | Jun 3, 2015 | Coders / Hackers, Enterprise Disruption, Innovation, Marketing-led Startups
For corporations wanting to dip their toe in the water of startup-style innovation, hackathons can be a great, low risk place to start. Hackathons, despite containing the work “hack”, are anything but an anarchic or dangerous form of innovation and are proving to be a...