Biomimetics
Biology is the inspiration for leadership development, innovation and growth
Phil Richardson, Consulting Director of Thoughtcrew, a Bath based leadership consultancy was awarded his PhD in biomimetics at the University of Bath this week. Phil has been researching the application of biology to leadership and strategy as a part time student at the University. Initial applications of the research have helped leadership teams think [...]
Thoughtcrew launches three new business biomimetic services
Business biomimetic solutions
Thoughtcrew has developed three business biomimetic offers for leadership, change management and innovation. The following summary provides an overview of the offers and shows how these could work for your business.
Business biomimetics and introduction
This is a range of education and introduction to business biomimetics talks and workshops. Lasting from a one hour talk [...]
Self healing membranes
Plants have been used as the biomimetic inspiration of self healing membranes for tyres. Work done by Dr Olga Speck at the University of Freiburg shows that a new self healing membrane can quickly and effectively repair pneumatic structures such as tyres. For more
Horseshoe fungus biologized in Bath City Guide
Just had one of the biologize photo’s published in the City of Bath Guide.
Phil Richardson joins the PSL at The Lords for the launch of The Partner
Lord David Evans of Watford hosted the 20th anniversay of PSL at the House of Lords this week. Over 180 business leaders joined together to launch the latest edition of The Partner magazine. Phil Richardson, Thoughtcrew, authored the thought leadership chapter “Fit for the Future” exploring the use of evolution as a model for innovation. [...]
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 [...]
