The back story of the best selling Stoplock

The back story of the best selling Stoplock

Way back in 1990, I’d just started my business and was out looking for clients. At a trade show I got talking to a couple of guys selling car accessories like air fresheners and sunroofs, the kind where you had to cut a hole in the roof! They’d just come back from...
Lightbulb moments may be over rated.

Lightbulb moments may be over rated.

People often talk about ideas as if they just appear. The classic “lightbulb moment”, a flash of inspiration out of nowhere.In my experience, that’s not really how it works.Most good ideas come from working through a problem properly. Understanding how something...
Is a blank sheet truly blank?

Is a blank sheet truly blank?

How to uncover the hidden agendas. Nothing like starting with a blank sheet of paper – but is it really? Truly blank sheets are a rare find, often there’s something hiding on the other side or some devious invisible ink that will materialise half-way through the...
Logic not Magic

Logic not Magic

What was Archimedes thinking naked in the street? Logic or Magic? Are we in Lilliput or is that the world’s largest beer? Either way he’s using the laws of buoyancy to good effect and my question here is…. What was Archimedes up to? Legend has it that he...
Supply Chain

Supply Chain

How to design out your supply chain issues. Supply chain issues? 3 ways to help by design. Supply chain problems have been all over the news since Brexit and the pandemic. Challenges lurk everywhere but some of them can be mitigated through good design. Delays With...
Nothing new under the sun

Nothing new under the sun

What if someone else got to your idea first? A well know proverb which we’ve all coined from time to time and itself dates from about 2500 years ago when King Solomon was writing Ecclesiastes in his old age. But how can something not being new be good for business?...