As part of our role in the Growth Agenda Network the Foundation has contributed to Growth Champion the recently published book by the Growth Agenda.

Growth Champions provides a distinct, informed perspective on how leading companies have been able to …

Having discussed the importance of visualisation for visual ideas – see an example of how we have done this before in a short video made by our friends at Matthew Fairweather Design.  Visual thinking needs Visualisation hosted ont eh Foundation’s very own Vimeo Page …

One of our Partners, Charlie, has reviewed a new book, The Wide Lens, by Ron Adner, for Management Today.  You can read his thoughts on the book and the subject of innovation ecosystems here.

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We were pleased to see that a report we co-authored, This Human Business, was featured in the Sunday Times last weekend.

The report was written in collaboration with Bondy Consulting, and argues that it is time to put the human …

We recently collaborated with real estate provider Cushman & Wakefield on a Thought Leadership event on Innovation and the Real Estate Services Industry, aimed at corporate occupiers.

James Alexander, one of our Partners, led the session which provoked interesting …

We’re excited to announce that we have contributed to a new book, Growth Champions, which is out now. The book provides a distinct, informed perspective on how leading companies have been able to create, build and sustain growth to win the innovation …

Would you like to work for a company that acts as a close and trusted advisor to senior business leaders across a wide range of industries? Helping senior management solve complex challenges, making big things happen and doing it with …

Last year we worked on a pro-bono project for Action for M.E. (the UK’s largest charity for people with M.E.) 

One of the results that emerged from our collaborative workshops with their leadership team was that they should focus on leading a …

We are very proud to have been asked by Management Today to contribute to their How To? Issue published this February, specifically on the subject of How to have good ideas.  You can read the interview with our Founding Partner …

We at The Foundation are proud of our network and are always keen to help people we know connect to other folk we know, be it through parallels, our Forum events or just to help people achieve the outcomes they are …

Answer:  They all feature in an article written by City journalist and Foundation Advisory Board member Anthony Hilton.  You can find out more and read Anthony’s article in the Independent here  http://virou.gr/xykRgm…

Download the report here This Human Business – The new bottom line is social

Written by Anthony Painter and commissioned in partnership with award winning communications agency Bondy Consulting, This Human Business - the new bottom line is social  presents the case that …

• What’s most likely to be sustained by the companies that are leading in this area?
• What are the most useful lessons for companies that haven’t been as bold yet?
• And what’s actually going to make the most useful difference to

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Happy new year all! We’ve had a great start to 2012 with a new Senior Consultant, Natasja, joining the team last week. Please take a look at her of her full bio here and have a read of her fun …

In early October we held a thought provoking and exciting event on innovation in big companies – is it a waste of time, and if not, how do you do it?  From the points of view of Tim Sefton, Director …

Spirited.

A few weeks ago we had a team trip to Leander boat club where Olympic Champion Steve Williams helped us apply some principles he learnt training for the Olympics into business teamwork. It was a fantastic two days which …

We had a brilliant turnout at our forum event last week where the subject for discussion was ‘social innovation’. Our three speakers (Cliff Prior, Chief Executive of UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, Alison Hutchinson, Chief Executive of the electronic …

While Coca Cola is usually at the top of most brand studies, it comes way down the list when asking people whether brands contribute to their “quality of life”. Those at the top of the recently released ‘Meaningful Brand Index’…

James Alexander, one of our partners and also founder of Zopa (the marketplace where people lend and borrow money) talks about the financial and social reward of being part of a peer to peer money market.

View the clip on TEDX here…

The Foundation is now part of a new global network. It’s called the Growth Agenda, at www.growthagenda.com, and we think it is an exciting addition to our approach and the skills we can easily access.  Our membership of this network is nothing to do with …

Some exciting news that one of The Foundation’s partners, James Alexander (also ex-Strategy Director at Egg and previous founder of Zopa), will be speaking at two events this Autumn. The first is an Oracle event about ’Banking on IT’ and the second is at the …

However much the financial sector abused risk, business must not play safe. Instead, Management Today’s round table, featuring Foundation Partner James Alexander, says that companies should focus on opportunities with a limited downside – and have a balanced team.

To follow the discussion …

Today is founding partner Charlie Dawson’s birthday and the news has travelled far. You can read more about how his age has baffled scientists by clicking on this link http://www.newsbiscuit.com/1967/09/07/north-london-man-suddenly-very-old/…

Dr Abhay Bang could knock many an insight team into a cocked hat, so atuned is he to the needs of his customers (who, in this case, happen to be newborn babies and their mothers in one of India’s most deprived …

We enjoyed reading Anthony Hilton’s (Financial Editor of the Evening Standard and one of our Advisory Board members) perspective about the stock market turmoil last week: ‘Markets have lost faith in the politicians’…

On the 26 May we put to the Foundation Forum an argument that trust in organisations is seriously threatened and may be irrecoverable, at least until they are set up so their purpose more closely matches the interests of those …

Mark Ritson’s article  in Marketing Week makes a powerful comment on how an unrelenting focus on core competencies tends to underpin business success.

His subject is Tesco and its foray into developing standalone brands, which he’s betting will fail. A …

This article appears in full in The Financial Times 09.06.11. An extract from this article about Ian Thwaites one of our Senior Consultants appears below or read the full article (pdf). Ian is soon to be joining Decode as their UK …

Ed Smith, previously Global COO and Strategy Chairman of PWC, wrote an excellent report for the Work Foundation which looked especially at the effect of rules and regulation on the relationship between businesses and society, arguing that perversely, more rules …

Should business be more human? Or  does that make a large organisation too complicated to manage? Is success down to the people – John Lewis for example? Or are people the problem – bankers and bonuses for example?

In line with …

Fashion retailer New Look is embarking on a significant marketing drive aimed at raising the brand’s profile and creating greater engagement with consumers. This move by the retailer was championed by The Foundation who helped New Look to build their …

Broadband and online shopping top The Foundation’s inaugural Innovation Index

• Britons rank home broadband as the innovation that has contributed the most to their lives over the past decade
• Online shopping follows in second place
• Functionality and …

Please click on the following link  ‘Doing the right thing’ to see an article by Anthony Hilton covering our most recent Forum discussion: ‘There is no such thing as an ethical business’.

Anthony Hilton is Financial Editor of the London Evening Standard and a …

HSBC has an internal team responsible for customer experience around the world.  50 people have to change the way 330,000 people work, improving things for more than 100 million customers.  A first priority in 2009 was to look innovatively at …