Who am I?
I’m an Innovation Consultant with 8+ years experience. I originally came from an arts background, trained in the design process through visual communication, graphic design, Web technologies, UI/UX design and development. I gained an MSc in International Business & Management for Design and started my PhD in Innovation & Entrepreneurship; giving me broad skill-sets, tools and methodologies to apply at strategic, tactical and operational levels, coupled with hand-on industry experience new technology R&D.
What do I do?
I work at Board of Innovation and I help internal Fortune500 teams to innovate like start-ups, by applying my multi-disciplinary background across design, business and innovation management through hands-on consulting, training and facilitation of tailored innovation programmes. Ranging from bootcamps, corporate accelerator programs, hackathons, cultural change programs, Design Thinking, Design Sprints, Lean Start-up and AGILE methodologies to business model innovation, pitching and commercialisation in both B2B and B2C.
What makes me tick?
I’m naturally inquisitive; passionate about the near-possible; a critical design, business and innovation thinker who loves to uncover ‘why’ questions and is keen to learn from everywhere and anyone around me. I love all things digital including hacking technology, reading, writing, art, sliding down mountains, cycling all over, creating things and I have a keen interest in all that flies.
Research interests
I’m particularly interested in how firms can harness and capture value from their extreme users, creative consumers or hackers by proactively-facilitating and overtly-absorbing external generativity as a vital source of innovation and added-value. I have so far written on the topic at PhD level, carried-out research, authored papers and monograph.
Publications & Research
Research paper: External hacker communities and industry-wide innovation sources: The role of disruptive, autonomous end-users and consumers on internal R&D teams within device manufacturing firms Abstract In a qualitative study…
A summary of key takeaways from my Hacker Innovation Monograph. WRONG MEANING 1. The term ‘hacker’ has been popularised by the media in all the wrong ways. HACKING vs CRACKING...
If you prefer to read Hackers and Innovation: Redefinition and Examination of Outlaw Sources of Generativity for Future Product Development Strategies on your smartphone, tablet or your favourite desktop e-reader, you…
I've just released a work-in-progress monograph entitled: "Hackers and Innovation: Redefinition and Examination of Outlaw Sources of Generativity for Future Product Development Strategies (2014)" as a Wiki book. To start...
After completing my MSc Thesis (entitled "How will developments in digital technologies affect the Creative Industries"), I submitted shortened working paper abstracts to several conferences and journals in Europe and received...
Whilst partaking in innovation seminars at Imperial College London Business School, I wrote a paper relating the innovation literature to 'outlaw' sources of innovation outside firm boundaries and control. This is...
Innovation Research
Design Strategy
Design Thinking
Design Research
Design Industry Research & Reports
The benefits of using design in early stage innovation are well articulated and appreciated by Innovate UK. This latest KTN guide puts it into practice and sets out how businesses can…
New EU Commission research on the use of design and it’s impact on innovation and creativity. “EU survey shows strategic use of design linked to increased innovation and productivity” Companies…
The Luma Institute put together a useful design research methodology framework to help design researchers choose the appropriate tools for the varying stages of the innovation process with focus on...
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