Six Lenses The Locus Research blog about creatvity, design, product development and innovation.
Innovation
/ August 19 2013
Early this year the Ministry of Primary Industries set the goal to double New Zealand export value by 2025. This would increase exports from 30 – 40% of the country’s GDP. With 71% of New Zealand’s... Read more
/ August 15 2013
On the 8th August I had the privilege to participate in judging the Young Innovator Awards (YIA) and then speak at the YIA Innovation Forum on the 9th August in Tauranga. Well, what an event, an... Read more
/ June 25 2013
Last week Tim and I attended the MTANZ New Zealand Healthcare Congress in Auckland. The two-day event brings together representatives from clinical, research providers, health technologies, sellers,... Read more
/ June 19 2013
Imagine a world without Google search. It's almost a basic human right to be able to Google these days. Well the data giants aren't all Adwords and fancy glasses - Google.org is the non-profit arm... Read more
/ June 12 2013
Recently I had the privilege to judge the ‘Launch New Zealand Agritech Innovation Awards’ at the Fieldays, the premier agriculture trade show in New Zealand.
Right here at the very heart of... Read more
/ June 5 2013
An absolute cracker.
I have just finished reading Imagine - The Science of Creativity by Jonah Lehrer (Text Publishing 2012). Tim read it a few weeks back and the book is going around the studio.... Read more
/ May 31 2013
After throwing a couple of Inspiration Sessions out we brought this one closer to home – physically and philosophically. The new Vagabond Café below the Locus Studio hosted Jake McLaren talking about... Read more
/ May 24 2013
When I first heard the name Nicola Bell, she was just a year into her position, featured on the cover of Her Magazine, which I was designing at the time. When the cover photos came through, her... Read more
/ April 23 2013
During a trip to the US Med Tech conference Advamed last October, Timothy Allan heard the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centre for Devices and Radiological Health (CRDH) discuss... Read more
/ April 5 2013
Recently we had great pleasure in having Sally Rosenberg join the Inspiration Sessions hall of fame to talk about her experienced corporate risk, crisis, and programme management background. Her... Read more
