Jim Muttram

Three articles in this morning's Observer illustrate perfectly the paradoxes surrounding the climate change debate.  First we had this piece on England's wettest January for 250 years. The culprit is identified as global warming: Flooding has been identified as the most dangerous impact of climate change for the…

I am now on the fifth week of my Design Thinking course being run online by Dr Jeanne Liedtka. She summed up with some great advice for implementing design thinking: Pick the right challenge. Figure out who in the organisation cares about the problem you…

I've spent the past couple of hours going through my feed reader catching up on all the stories I've missed over the past week or so and I was struck by the enormous number and inventiveness of the new apps and hardware being reported on.

A man came to the door last night to try to sell me a framed photograph of my house taken from his light plane. Fifteen years ago, a couple of years after we moved in, the same thing happened. That time I was fascinated to…

Large organisations find it so hard to innovate, according to Dr. Jeanne M. Liedtka, because of the "physics of growth". Dr Liedtka, who is currently running an MOOC on Design Thinking which I am taking, says there are critical differences in the way VCs and large…