So, what should you look for when picking an agency to build my website or app?
Recently, I had a conversation with a client who wanted to build an app, and was bamboozled by the options, didn’t know who to trust, who could do a good job, or knew what they were selling; or could...
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Thoughts & Notes to a future Multidisiplinary Innovation student
Since completing my Masters in Multidisciplinary Innovation at Northumbria University (link) back in 2018; I’ve been approached by prospective students asking me – What is the course like? And of...
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The difference between innovation and invention
Innovation and invention. From the outset, they look very similar; and often the words are used interchangability – but is there a difference? What is innovation? Innovation is great ideas realised....
View ArticleReview: Your Next Five Moves by Patrick Bet-David
This is an unsponsored review of the book “Your Next Five Moves” by Patrick Bet-David. Buy now on Amazon UK Patrick Bet-David (PBD) is an American business owner who is the host of the Youtube! channel...
View ArticleLatest Updates and what’s happening next
I haven’t written a blog article in many months, and I wanted to give some outline of what my latest update and changes will be happening this year. Goals I’ve been investigating various no code...
View ArticleReview: John Wick 4
I saw John Wick 4 about a month ago and hadn’t had a chance to do a review of the movie, but I thought I’d give my thoughts about the movie. Heralding the fourth in the series, John Wick 4 see’s the...
View ArticleWhy 2023 is the year of AI
It’s official. 2023 is the year of AI. ChatGPT, Bard, Autopilot, and others have changed the game of content, writing, coding, graphic artwork, research, and more; and is speculated to have an impact...
View Article7 ideas for making YouTube better
Over the past decade YouTube, the biggest video sharing website, has seen an explosion of content creators and regularly attracts millions, if not billions, of views across the world. For creators...
View ArticleA few days with Go
This week I have been dabbling into the foundations of the Go programming language. I’ve been hearing a lot about it, and decided that I wanted to do the absolute foundations, and not try to jump...
View ArticleMy favorite 3 board games of 2022
In 2022, I was able to play a number of designer, strategy games and I have selected the following three games as my favourites. 1. Findorff BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/360617/findorff...
View ArticleThoughts on Colonial: Europe’s Empires Overseas
Thoughts on how the game Colonial: Europe's Empires Overseas could be improved
View ArticleUser stories: Do users really care about signing in?
When crafting user stories to document what tasks or Jobs to be done a user might be doing in a process or website or app, typically you may see a story similar to this: As a {user} I want to sign in...
View ArticleExecution > Ideas
I get it. Execution trumps ideas. But without ideas, we cannot execute; you will execute blindly and without context. Set the context, generate a boat load of ideas, filter them, promote them, question...
View ArticleMy time as Innovation Coach
Last week marked the last day of my time as innovation coach for the University of Sunderland. Working with the Entrepreneurial Development Team, my role was to help create co-curricular and extra...
View ArticleBook review: Scale at speed
This is a review of the book “Scale at Speed” written by Felix Velarde. This review is unpaid, and has no affiliate links. This book isn’t for me. And I’ll explain why. Recently I was at my local...
View ArticleBook review: Ideaflow
This is a book review of IdeaFlow by Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn with a foreword by David Kelley. This review is unpaid and has no affiliate links. Innovation for many businesses can be hard. For...
View ArticleBook review: The 10X rule
This a review of the book “The 10X Rule” by Grant Cardone. This review is unpaid, and has no affiliate links. I was surprised to find that “The 10X Rule” was at my local library and skim read the...
View ArticleHire me: I’m Looking for work
Hi there, I’m currently looking for work and am open to remote, full-time positions. I can help you with: I have a number of case studies on my portfolio including: My goal is to publish 30 case...
View ArticleWhat makes an original idea? And does it matter?
I recently got asked “what is the most original idea you’ve got?” I found it quite hard to answer. Looking back, I wish I asked “can you please define original ideas”; or “what are the metrics we are...
View Article5 ways to frame the problem
What problem are we solving? In business, there’s no shortage of customer needs, customer problems to tackle. Startups may have it easier, they focus on a single problem; whereas bigger organisations...
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