Leadership
Biologize your stakeholders
Change management is at the heart of delivering new strategy. Stakeholder engagement is becoming a real challenge for many organisations that face increasing complexity in their respective industries. This paper brings together traditional management approaches and blends them with the latest in business biomimetic thinking. This approach provides a way to incorporate the challenges of [...]
Product and packaging ideas inspired by nature
Faraday hosted the biomimetics conference for product and packaging at the sustainability conference centre in Doncaster yesterday. Attended by innovation specialists from the FMCG sector thesession was chaired by Dr Phil Richardson, chief executive of Thoughtcrew. Dr Cathy Barnes runs Faraday, which is part of the University of Leeds. Cathy and her team provide a [...]
Pimp my cause a great way to biologize your strategy and marketing experience
Here’s a great idea. Pimp my Cause is a new site that brokers offers from marketing and strategy professionals to charities that need the help. It’s a great way of building on your skills and expertise if you want to work with the charity sector. If you are a charity you can register and say [...]
Infinity Context Free Process for business biomimetics
Dr Phil Richardson of Thoughtcrew Limited has developed a new process for the translation between between business problems and biological systems. This, the Infinity Context Free Process, provides an approach for strategic thinking and can be used as a workshop process or can be embedded into the strategy process or the innovation process of a [...]
The principles of success – hear Professor Patrick Jordan on the 17th September
Hear Thoughtcrew friend Patrick Jordan share the principles of success at a seminar in the South West. He will cover:- Take Responsibility. Understand that we, and nobody else, are ultimately responsible for our actions, thoughts and attitudes. How our lives turn out is up to us and no-one else. Set Goals. Goals provide us with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 can [...]
