Tag Archives: Innovation

Inconvenient Truths

Posted on October 5, 2022 by julianstodd

Just because something is easy to understand does not make it true, and, conversely, just because something is complex, incomplete, and distasteful to our current conception of the truth, that discomfort alone does not make it wrong. Whilst we enjoy … Continue reading →

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The Apple

Posted on October 3, 2022 by julianstodd

I was looking through a book with my three year old at the weekend, and he saw a medieval illustration depicting someone standing next to an apple tree. He asked me “why is that man putting apples in a tree?”. … Continue reading →

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Extending Capability

Posted on May 17, 2022 by julianstodd

I had dinner with a friend last night, a climber, who described how her group would use a drone to scout out new climbing routes. They would use the drone to extend their capability: after trekking through snow, through undergrowth, … Continue reading →

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Socially Dynamic Structure: #WorkingOutLoud on Organisational Design Ideas

Posted on April 21, 2022 by julianstodd

I’m revisiting work on the Socially Dynamic Organisation, which considers aspects of Organisational Design, formal and social structure, and mechanisms of collectivism, connection, productivity and effect. This is essentially a conversation about how we design, or redesign, our Organisations to … Continue reading →

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Shifts in Organisational Learning – The Nature of your Strength

Posted on November 15, 2021 by julianstodd

One of the innovations that allowed the Apollo spacecraft to journey to the moon was the development of a new generation of gyroscopes that formed part of the inertial navigation system. Essentially they formed part of a system that allowed … Continue reading →

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Innovation: Synthesis and Elemental

Posted on September 6, 2021 by julianstodd

This is the latest in a series of fragmentary pieces as i build vocabulary and ideas around Innovation. As such it is not intended as complete work, but rather the pieces which may inform later (and possibly complete!) work. Part … Continue reading →

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Innovation at the Edges

Posted on September 2, 2021 by julianstodd

Not everything happens at the centre, in those spaces that we know well, control fully, and feel comfortable within. Innovation may happen in the friction, through the cracks, at the edges. Synthesis, connection, discovery: application, iteration, evolution. The fracturing of … Continue reading →

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Reiterating Realms of Innovation

Posted on August 26, 2021 by julianstodd

Reworking the ideas from earlier this week, this framework illustration adapts the ‘Realms and Filters’ that i shared yesterday. Instead of showing them in two rings, i am representing them on one plane. This work is really just conceptual right … Continue reading →

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#WorkingOutLoud – Realms and Filters of Innovation

Posted on August 25, 2021 by julianstodd

Building out from the work i shared yesterday, this piece starts to consider further aspects of Innovation: ‘Realms’ and ‘Filters’. The outer ring illustrates four Realms: the ‘Known’, the ‘Mistaken’, the ‘Unknown’ and the ‘Unknowable’. The inner ring illustrates three … Continue reading →

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#WorkingOutLoud – Perspectives on #Innovation

Posted on August 24, 2021 by julianstodd

Some early stage thinking here around three perspectives on innovation: this is an abstraction really, but a way to look through three different lenses, to consider where, and how, we innovate. In some ways it may also allow us to … Continue reading →

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