Six Lenses The Locus Research blog about creatvity, design, product development and innovation.

Innovation

/ September 12 2014
The YIA Innovation Forum returned in 2014 after a hugely inspiring event in 2013, and brought another six great people into the Bay of Plenty to talk about their journeys over their careers. They... Read more
How Innovation Works - A Fieldays Resource
/ June 19 2014
As a part of our contribution to the Fieldays Innovations and for use in the LAB, we created a resource under the broad title of 'How Innovation Works' and the resource focussed specifically on... Read more
The Drivers of Value Creation
/ May 15 2014
Sean has worked with Locus Research both as a client and a collaborator. We have always appreciated his crystalline advice and thinking from a business perspective. So we asked him to write about it... Read more
/ April 23 2014
Over the course of 20 years using a myriad of tools to develop products, the toolset has not structurally changed since the mainstreaming of parametric modelling in the 90's. It has also not... Read more
/ March 13 2014
It’s hard to believe that the time has come again to launch the next year of the Young Innovator Awards – but perhaps that’s because we just finished off an internship with Harry Dobbs, winner of the... Read more
Photo by Linda Robertson. © Otago Daily Times, All Rights Reserved
/ January 7 2014
A self confessed technophobe? Surely not, but that's how Ian Taylor, inventor, entrepreneur, and CEO of Dunedin-based Animation Research, describes himself. I guess it's all relative. Ian's team at... Read more
/ November 7 2013
If I took one theme away from China it would be scale: the vast landmass, the thirst for construction, the booming economy. Look at China today and realise this is a nation where 30 million people... Read more
/ November 4 2013
BOOM! What a gig. October 22nd and 23rd I was privileged to attend this year’s Better by Design (BBD) CEO Summit at Villa Maria Auckland, themed Disrupt by Design. For those of you that attended I... Read more
/ November 1 2013
It was a beautiful sunny morning to talk social media at the Air New Zealand E.A.T Breakfast hosted by ExportNZ Bay of Plenty. Four professionals spoke on social media, and although they all claimed... Read more
Keynote speaker David Darling presents at the 2013 Innovation Forum
/ August 23 2013
When we invited six of NZ’s leading innovators to Tauranga to judge the Young Innovator Awards, opportunity knocked. What a great chance to get them to share their stories with the business community... Read more