Innovation Blog
Thursday, November 12, 2009
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
recession,
awards,
National Business Awards,
online,
ASOS,
Nick Robertson,
Retail,
Mid-Cap Business of the year
Find out what Nick Robertson, CEO of ASOS plc, winner of Grant Thornton’s Mid-Cap Business of the Year Award, thinks about the UK’s ability to recover from recession and how innovation will help us ‘work our way out of this recession’. Filmed interview courtesy of The National Business Awards.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
Graham Kennedy of Alexoria discusses how our risk-averse culture and refusal to ‘fail successfully’ prevents the UK from leading on the innovation stage. Alexoria is an independent consultancy specialising in revenue generation for professional service firms and technology organisations, and improving IT in the public sector, in particular managing the IT implications of the Government’s Shared Services agenda.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Healthcare
| Tags: health,
john wilden,
global healthcare
“Global Healthcare Futures (GHF) is a UK company that is the brain child of John Wilden, a former specialist and consultant neurosurgeon. GHF is developing and promoting software products for “Time to Cure” and “Cost to Cure” Common Diseases based on the advances of molecular biology and other technologies which will underpin the fast looming world of curative global healthcare, thereby ushering in a new age of diminishing healthcare costs across the developed and developing world”.
Dr Tim Evans, Chairman of Global Health Futures
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Environment
| Tags: innovation,
government,
renewable energy,
national grid,
biogas
National Grid’s Head of Sustainable Gas Group, Janine Freeman, discusses their approach to innovation, including the opportunities and hurdles surrounding their quest to meet sustainable energy targets. In particular, she offers insight into the potential for injecting Biogas – the innovative renewable energy source – into National Grid pipelines. Compiled of the UK’s various waste streams, Biogas has the potential to simultaneously cut methane and carbon emissions, boost renewable energy capacity and provide a domestic replacement to waning North Sea gas reserves.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Media,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
media,
technology,
digital
Alex Johns, MD of iblink left his job with Siemens 3 years to start up iblink which filled the niche created by technologists who knew a lot about technology and less about marketing and marketeers who knew a lot about marketing but little about technology. Today iblink is an award winning digital marketing business with a number of blue chips clients such as Titan, Superdrug, Bluewater, P&G and Unilever.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
jackie hunter,
pharmaceutical
Jackie Hunter is the Senior-Vice President and Head of External Science Development at GlaxoSmithKline. Here she discusses how innovation is encouraged and challenges are overcome at the pharmaceutical, through its continuous evolution on both an internal and external level.
Appointed in 2008, within Dr. Hunter’s remit at GlaxosmithKline is the development of a more open and transparent global R&D architecture, which includes developing new ways of working with academia and publically funded bodies.
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Friday, April 24, 2009
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation
Marie Wold discusses the drivers of innovation at OnRelay, including the role of stakeholders, the financial gains, and ultimately the thrill of developing new technologies. Marie founded OnRelay, a software company specialising in fixed mobile convergence – an innovative technology integrating mobile phones into fixed telephony networks, 9 years ago.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Education,
Technology
David Gann, Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School, and joint Chair in Technology and Innovation at Imperial College, discusses the pioneering concept of 5D Innovation modelling, anticipated to impact decision making on a global level.
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation
“Are we really hiring the irritants? Because it’s the irritants that are the risk takers, and it’s the risk takers that contribute to the culture of innovation.” Jonathan Kestenbaum, CEO, NESTA
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
As President of Boeing UK, Sir Roger Bone is responsible for advising the main board on political and economic developments in the
UK, and also oversees Boeing’s UK outreach and philanthropic activities
“The excitement about innovation is the uncertainty and that’s why you’ve got to be brave….open minded….courageous and just go for it”
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation
Will King, CEO of KMI (King of Shaves) talks about the role innovation has played in his career, from studying Mechanical Engineering which gave him a grounding in design and manufacturing, to his views on innovation in the UK.
“What happens in a recession is that creativity and common sense comes to out-weigh cash. People can’t simply rely on getting the cash in to do the job, they’ve got to use their brain and be creative and challenge things…...the currency of common sense is coming to the fore rather than the currency of cash.”
What do you think?
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation
Don Elgie, Chief Executive Officer of Creston PLC gives his view on promoting innovation in the UK, what the obstacles are and how the economic downturn will affect the UK's position on the world stage.
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