Biomimetics
The use of ambient light to create displays
A commercial display business shows how lessons from light refraction and reflection in nature can be used to create vivid colours using ambient light. Find out more at the San Diego Zoo Blog Thanks to Dena Emmerson is a biomimicry research assistant at the San Diego Zoo
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 ‘outside-the-box’ [...]
Getting and keeping golden customers
How golden are your customers. This was the topic discussed when I met interim marketing director Nicki Holmes at the Royal Society of Arts yesterday. Her unique approach to marketing which has achieved fantastic results for a wide range of businesses from NatWest to Help the Aged has a secret ingredient. The secret is a [...]
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 [...]
UK Innovation consulting firm leads the way in the application of nature to leadership and management at international conference held in Berlin
Phil Richardson, chief executive of innovation and management consultancy firm Thoughtcrew, took the lead in the organisation design and management development working group at the Biokon International conference in Berlin this week. Based on his research in biomimetics at the University of Bath, the working group will focus on specific industry challenges such as growth, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
OTIS the black lab Guide Dog Puppy
I’ve just sponsored Otis who is the latest puppy to strat Guide Dogs training. Another way of bringing biomimetics into business……. If you feel motivated to do the same things let me know!
