Can Innovation get us out of the current mess?

By Martin Recke

Do we need more innovation? Do we need less, or slower innovation? Or do we need other kinds of innovation?

Stéphanie Mitrano: 5 takeaways from NEXT17

By Adam Tinworth

French innovation consultant Stéphanie Mitrano has blogged about the most important themes of NEXT17 for her.

David Li: Smart hardware from the street

By Adam Tinworth

Innovation in Shenzhen looks nothing like innovation in the rest of the world. And that’s why Shenzhen dominates the world of digital devices.

The lesson of the Museum of Failure is that innovation means risk

By Adam Tinworth

We should explore failure at least as much as we celebrate success. Why? Because it teaches us more.

Digital Sucks!

By Martin Recke

Can we be honest? Digital sucks … greatly! There is a nagging feeling that a lot of all digital stuff somehow goes terribly wrong. Oftentimes, digital products simply don’t live up to their promises, leaving users in a kind of limbo between overpromise and underdelivery.

Surface Studio: Microsoft’s beautiful bid for the creative market

By Adam Tinworth

Microsoft has just unveiled a beautiful, but incredibly niche, PC for the creative industries. Has it turned itself into an innovation powerhouse?

New tech “is a toy”

By Adam Tinworth

Why is it that so many people are keen to dismiss emergent technology?

Jumping the fashion forward innovation gap

By Adam Tinworth

Getting a new tech idea over the innovation gap can be hard. Compare a 3D printed dream, with a retail reality…

Tech conferences: a collective dream of the future

By Adam Tinworth

As the European tech scene gathers in Paris, it's worth remembering that tech conferences can be a greta way to dream the future into being

Apple and Marc Newson: when fashion and tech collide

By Adam Tinworth

Apple has hired fashion-forward industrial designer Marc Newson, and is inviting fashion bloggers to its event tomorrow. There's a pretty clear picture building…

Peter Hinssen: the network always wins

By Adam Tinworth

Our marketplaces are becoming networks, and so our companies need to become networks to survive, argues New Normal author Peter Hinssen

Satya Nadella: rebuilding Microsoft for the New Normal

By Adam Tinworth

Microsoft was the powerhouse of the last age of tech. Can its new CEO make it fit for the shifting landscape that is the New Normal?

NEXT14: Embrace ‘The New Normal’

By Ina Feistritzer

NEXT14 is your chance to explore the THE NEW NORMAL with great pioneers of our time. Join us to learn about new technologies that are currently making our jaws drop, but will become normal in no time.

Disruption is the new normal

By Adam Tinworth

Don't get too comfortable in your market niche. Disruption is inevitable - and unlikely to go away. We're living in a time of huge upheaval.

2013: tech tragedy or triumph?

By Adam Tinworth

How will history judge the tech world's efforts in 2013? Was this a great year, or a terrible one?

Education: out of date and ripe for disruption

By Adam Tinworth

Why are we persisting with an industrial-era education system in the information age? We have to reinvent this.

What we can learn about Apple from today’s event

By Adam Tinworth

Another month, another Apple event. However, this one told us a lot about how the company sees the future…

Ballmer’s exit: he was the wrong man, playing the wrong game

By Adam Tinworth

The inevitable has happened: Steve Ballmer is exiting Microsoft, which is a fading giant in the technology game. Has he poisoned the well for his successor?

It takes a village to build a tech hub

By Adam Tinworth

What is it that makes one city work as a tech hub, and another fail? It could be that you need a village atmosphere in an uban setting…