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28 April 2011
| spiked review of books
One year on: learning the lessons of Deepwater Horizon BP became so obsessed with irrational management practices and petty health-and-safety measures that it overlooked the real safety of its workers
20 April 2011
| the next step, 15 July 1988
A year after the explosion at BP's Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, an earlier, much deadlier blast in British waters still has plenty of relevance
12 April 2011
| spiked
Yuri Gagarin’s brave, brilliant leap into the dark On the 50th anniversary of the first manned flight space, we need more of Gagarin’s old daring
30 March 2011
| spiked
Budgeting for a dismal no-growth future For all their talk of innovation, the Lib-Cons are more concerned with pinching pennies than investing
13 March 2011
| How To Run A Successful Design Business (Gower, 2011).
Management issues for design businesses To win through with clients, designers need to master future trends, communicate their ideas with the maximum clarity, do good research, and also closely follow developments in innovation and marketing
| How To Run A Successful Design Business (Gower, 2011)
In new products and services, an orientation to realism and to engineering in its broadest sense will ensure that design's answers are substantive, not superficial
21 February 2011
| spiked
Pfizer’s decision to close its UK research facility was born of an industry-wide angst about medical discovery
26 November 2010
| spiked review of books
Today, as Britain seeks to renew diplomatic links with India and Churchill is championed as a hero of multiculturalism, Madhusree Mukerjee’s shocking account of the exploits of the Empire is well worth reading
24 November 2010
| The Listener, 13 November 1986
IT is a wonderful thing – but in certain conditions, it can desensitise
| Design Week, 16 August 1991
Even in his late seventies, the late American graphics giant Paul Rand did working days at the most energetic pace. For creatives everywhere, he remains an example
7 October 2010
| spiked
A very conservative approach to innovation The Lib-Con coalition is more concerned with controlling behaviour than forging a brave, hi-tech future
24 September 2010
| spiked
Battle of Britain: empires at war On the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of Britain, Richard Overy’s account shoots down many a myth
21 September 2010
| White Paper for Brother UK
The UK if everything was nearly half as much bigger A UK that's 41 per cent more innovative will not be simple to construct, but will be a radically different kind of place
27 August 2010
| spiked review of books
‘Lifestyles will have to be redesigned' A Guardian journalist’s ranting about the ‘neglect, greed and human filth’ of modern China shows that new prejudices about a Green Peril have replaced old fears of the Yellow Peril
12 August 2010
| spiked
Don’t let the miserabilists clip humanity’s wings Flight is one of man’s greatest achievements. Let’s challenge the greens and officials who want to snuff it out  Previous Page |
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| The initiative for Innovation has passed from West to East. Obviously the West still brings out innovations; but the fear of the new is much greater in Europe and the USA than it is in Asia. The West would rather innovate in the realm of Brands, Design and Play than in the realms of Work, Construction or the Public Sector
The West finds cutting back hard, but it finds growth even harder. British officials in particular have largely lost the idea that fundamental, long-term research, as well as technological innovation, can create whole new industries and millions of jobs. There's plenty of rhetoric about innovation, but most of the excitement surrounds cutting back again - reducing Energy usage, waste and costs generally. For all the talk, too, of innovatory 'business models', or new ways of taking money off customers, a prominent and very familiar business model today is... cutting back budgets for research and development. We need a new spirit of critical enquiry - in science, and also when innovation is rhapsodised about, but not tenaciously pursued. We need to think big, take risks, build more prototypes and learn from their failures, and have faith that human ingenuity can triumph over seemingly impossible obstacles. It's time to get serious about innovation. |
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