http://thinking.grant-thornton.co.uk/innovation/index.php Innovation and strategic thinking en jonathan.pickles@bigcommunications.co.uk Copyright 2010 2010-06-04T09:48:14+00:00 http://thinking.grant-thornton.co.uk/innovation/index.php/article/twitter_founder_launches_iphone_credit_card_reader/ Brian Maguire http://thinking.grant-thornton.co.uk/innovation/index.php/member/profile/8/ http://thinking.grant-thornton.co.uk/innovation/index.php/gt_weblog/twitter_founder_launches_iphone_credit_card_reader/#When:09:48:14Z Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has launched a mobile payment solution that allows anyone with an iPhone to take plastic Media, Technology 2010-06-04T09:48:14+00:00 http://thinking.grant-thornton.co.uk/innovation/index.php/article/a_billion_clouds_per_second._gates_seas_tech_innovation_solution_to_global_/ Brian Maguire http://thinking.grant-thornton.co.uk/innovation/index.php/member/profile/8/ http://thinking.grant-thornton.co.uk/innovation/index.php/gt_weblog/a_billion_clouds_per_second._gates_seas_tech_innovation_solution_to_global_/#When:09:44:56Z In the marvelous playground that is the mind of Microsoft billionaire, Bill Gates, the world must look like a Mario Kart video game. Gates is funding research into machines to suck up ten tonnes of seawater every second and spray it upwards, seed vast banks of white clouds to reflect the Sun’s rays away from Earth. Environment, Technology 2010-06-04T09:44:56+00:00 http://thinking.grant-thornton.co.uk/innovation/index.php/article/digital_economy_bill_full_of_good_intentions_but_can_it_be_implemented/ Grant Thornton http://thinking.grant-thornton.co.uk/innovation/index.php/member/profile/7/ http://thinking.grant-thornton.co.uk/innovation/index.php/gt_weblog/digital_economy_bill_full_of_good_intentions_but_can_it_be_implemented/#When:08:17:46Z “The digital sector plays a vital role in the UK economy and the Government is attempting to acknowledge this via the Digital Economy Bill. The Bill may be full of good intentions, but questions still hang over the practicalities of its implementation and possible unintended consequences.” Mark Henshaw, Head of Media and Entertainment at Grant Thornton. New Business Models, Business, Media 2010-04-09T08:17:46+00:00 http://thinking.grant-thornton.co.uk/innovation/index.php/article/horizontal_innovation._why_innovators_need_to_break_down_those_silos/ Brian Maguire http://thinking.grant-thornton.co.uk/innovation/index.php/member/profile/8/ http://thinking.grant-thornton.co.uk/innovation/index.php/gt_weblog/horizontal_innovation._why_innovators_need_to_break_down_those_silos/#When:07:31:22Z Saul Kaplan explains why the most effective way to achieve meaningful change in business is to enable collaborative innovation across cubicles and industries. For those of you who heard Gordon Brown disclose that Downing Street is an open plan office, you can judge by your gut response whether you think Kaplan is right. Business 2010-03-31T07:31:22+00:00 http://thinking.grant-thornton.co.uk/innovation/index.php/article/nathan_myhrvolds_opens_the_gates_to_invention_capital/ Grant Thornton http://thinking.grant-thornton.co.uk/innovation/index.php/member/profile/7/ http://thinking.grant-thornton.co.uk/innovation/index.php/gt_weblog/nathan_myhrvolds_opens_the_gates_to_invention_capital/#When:11:59:49Z The Economist online runs a profile of formidable innovators involved in a phenomenal project. Environment, Technology 2010-03-26T11:59:49+00:00