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Biomimetics

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Feedback from HR directors highlights the importance of biomimetics as a technique in leadership and change management

HR Directors that attended the recent HR Forum in London to hear Phil Rchardson give his talk on leadership and change management and the use of biomimetics as a business tool provided some exciting feedback. If you are interested in finding out more visit Thoughtcrew or call Phil on +44 208 133 4728.
“Very passionate about [...]

Symbiosis as a tool to understand business partnerships

At the HR Forum in London today Phil Richardson presented biomimetics and how that can be used in helping understand busines relationships and growth driven change management. A summary can be found in Personnal Today

Biologize your HR strategy

Tap into the power of nature to design and deliver your HR strategy. Using Past Casting based on the biology of crabs it is possible to design everything from a future based competency interview to aligning the leadership team to the new growth strategy. Business biomimetics provides a way of challenging traditional thinking that [...]

Natural nationalism

The family is the basic unit of society acording to my good friend Guy. A collection of families are a village, town or city and a collection of these are a nation. Of course in nature there are examples of such systems in place and equally those that spread their subsequent generations far and wide. [...]

Man made evolution

Did you know that cabbage, broccoli, kohlrabi and sprouts are all man made vegetables? Wild mustard was used as the initial species and then engineered over time to artificially select certain attributes.
This artificial selection can also be seen in business strategy where people, processes and systems have been selected from the original. However they [...]

The next big thing in consulting

Biomimetics is the next big thing in consulting acording to a group of senior business leaders that attended the latest briefing by Phil Richardson of Thoughtcrew.
Exploring the application of the new models and theories developed by Phil on his PhD at the University of Bath the invited audience were enthusiastic about the application [...]

Naked Strategy wins award at The University of Bath

Phil Richardson’s poster Naked Strategy: using biomimetics to drive busines change won the poster award at the recent research collaboration conference sponsored by the University of Bath. Phil was presented with his award after being voted best poster by the other researchers at the conference.
http://www.bath.ac.uk/research/researchers/community/rsconfhome.html

Adhesives - a chat with Professor Julian Vincent

I have just come from an interesting meeting with Professor Julian Vincent where we were discussing glue. Julian is a biomimetics expert and has published 300 papers on the application of biology to engineering and in particular materials problems. Adhesives play a major role in the way we live our lives today. Julian points out [...]

Bring innovation to life

In the modern business world, creating and implementing innovative ideas is vital to developing strategies that deliver sustainable, competitive advantage. Here is a one day knowledge shop which provides the opportunity to get some hands on experience in applying biomimetics to a business problem. Thoughtcrew and Faraday are working in partnership to bring biomimetics and [...]

Business creation with biomimetics

“Business Biomimetics is the broadening out of the Biomimetics concept to include solving the problems associated with business strategy. We have developed a number of models and processes that allow business leaders to examine a business problem and identify aspects of biological systems that can help them think differently about their problem. It also helps [...]