Innovation

Articles on the process and importance of innovation as a growth driver for UK small businesses. Organisations that prioritise innovation will better adapt to changing customer preferences, address emerging challenges, and stay ahead of competitors.

Business Ideas & Planning

What’s your favourite innovation – a VC’s advice to founders

Matthew Cushen, co-founder at Worth Capital, discusses his favourite innovation and his advice to small business founders

News

Digital transformation: Innovation and talent management

The speed in which a business adopts digital technology can reveal how it manages its staff, according to new research.

Business management

Horizontal innovation: What is it and how can it boost the SME community?

Horizontal innovation offers SMEs an untapped growth opportunity, states Kieron Salter, managing director of high performance engineering consultancy KWSP.

Business management

The power of start-ups in driving digital innovation

Here, 'Justin Cross, head of BLINK at MediaCom, discusses how digital innovation can boost a start-up to success.

Business Technology

Three ways to improve your company’s innovation performance

Here, Ultimaker chief technology officer and co-founder, Siert Wijnia, outlines exactly how businesses can improve their innovation performance.

News

Lack of time is the single biggest barrier to innovation

Teams working at full capacity lack the time and miss the opportunity to try new, different and better ways of innovation in their business.

Business Ideas & Planning

What makes a great brainstorming session?

Nick Pollitt of DBI furniture solutions put together the best way to have an affective brainstorming session in your business.

News

British Small Business Awards 2017: Disruptor of the Year shortlist

Here, we reveal the British Small Business Awards finalists in the talent-laden category of Disruptor of the Year.

Business management

Four ways to overcome lack of innovation in business

Here, Nick Thompson poses the question: How can we improve the internal processes which sometimes stifle creative input?

Blog

5 innovative companies from around the world

This year marks the 10th edition of the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies and while the top 10 winners are a pretty exceptional bunch, including the likes of Amazon, Google, Uber, Facebook and Netflix, there are many innovative companies that didn’t make this year’s list, or have ever made the list and deserve to.

Business management