I’ve been out and about a lot this month, attending workshops and design sprints so I’ve been exposed to some awesome new ice breakers...

The stereotypical image of start-up world is trendy young hipster types putting in the long hours and changing the world. Then a quick...

The Design Sprint methodology, developed by Jake Knapp at Google Ventures, brings together a cross-functional team for five days and...

The end of an intense innovation boot camp is normally heralded by the pitch panel – an opportunity to pitch your idea in five minutes to...

When I kept being told by well meaning folk in my network that I should start my own thing, I would look at them incredulously and ask...

While coaching on a global accelerator programme recently, one of the teams pitched to kill an idea they had been working on for the last...

We recently ran an open innovation experiment bringing together Baxi Boilers and Coventry University. It was to test to see if an online...

A slightly different, more personal blog post from me this time. I was asked recently to deliver a keynote at a conference and was given...

As discussed in my last blog post, everyone seems to be running Design Sprints right now as they are a super quick way to build and test...

We practice what we preach at Freestyle so we’re keen advocates of ‘finding the problem worth solving’. We typically do this to find the...

The finale of one of our recent ‘Innovation in a Box’ projects, was a Pitch Battle with five cross functional international teams,...

Before Design Thinking and Lean Start-Up became the bedrock for corporate innovation best practice, if teams wanted to test a new idea...

I recently found myself addressing a conference of small businesses where I had been given the Design Thinking slot. For various reasons...

This was the year I finally managed to realise a long held ambition and attend my first Canvas Conference in Birmingham – a conference...

A guest blog from Danielle at Purple Monster, part two of a series, as we start to explore how creativity and innovation can be...

A guest blog from Danielle at Purple Monster, part one of a series, as we start to explore the difference between creativity and...

So, you’ve developed an idea which you think is really great. What’s your next step ? Get out of the building to find out if anybody...

It’s probably one of the questions I get asked most often at Freestyle; how do you set up a Corporate Innovation Team ? So first, in true...

We happen to think idea generation is an art form. It's about setting a safe, creative space for people to feel like they can say...

The start of the New Year seems to have heralded the start of workshop season here at Freestyle. These have ranged from creative ideation...