sparks & kindling is a periodic digest of the things that have been fuelling our thinking over the last little while. Most are recent but we may drop in a few noteworthy classics.

 

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Issue 22: Should frugal innovation become the next big thing?
Issue 22: Should frugal innovation become the next big thing?
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Issue 21: our pick of the best tools to make collaborating digitally work brilliantly
Issue 21: our pick of the best tools to make collaborating digitally work brilliantly
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Issue 20: gazing into the crystal ball for 2020 and the decade ahead
Issue 20: gazing into the crystal ball for 2020 and the decade ahead
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Issue 19: the sustainability issue featuring some good news, algae, lunch options and even Man City
Issue 19: the sustainability issue featuring some good news, algae, lunch options and even Man City
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Issue 18: kicking robots, hacking brands, watching what we're blocking and more. It's an ethics feast for fall
Issue 18: kicking robots, hacking brands, watching what we're blocking and more. It's an ethics feast for fall
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Issue 17: Breaking through on strategy, voice control, future predictions, super-humans ...and fridges
Issue 17: Breaking through on strategy, voice control, future predictions, super-humans ...and fridges
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Issue 16: the creativity issue: how the pros do it, how to do it on your own, how brutal it can be and how AI could help
Issue 16: the creativity issue: how the pros do it, how to do it on your own, how brutal it can be and how AI could help
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Issue 15: the hard truths about innovation culture, a giant leap for packaging elimination, the pursuit of the perfect answer and when is a dog not a dog
Issue 15: the hard truths about innovation culture, a giant leap for packaging elimination, the pursuit of the perfect answer and when is a dog not a dog
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Issue 14: What was hot at CES this year; reinventing shopping in real life with Nike; checking out the future from 1904 & the Fab Five on the latest trends
Issue 14: What was hot at CES this year; reinventing shopping in real life with Nike; checking out the future from 1904 & the Fab Five on the latest trends
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Issue 13: Knocking price off top spot, cars with eyes that follow you across the road and the ultimate in human/chair interfaces
Issue 13: Knocking price off top spot, cars with eyes that follow you across the road and the ultimate in human/chair interfaces
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Issue 12: How parlour games and cake can get you to gold, the future of food production and some stimulus for building brilliant MVPs
Issue 12: How parlour games and cake can get you to gold, the future of food production and some stimulus for building brilliant MVPs
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Issue 11: Sharks, refugees and enabling innovation through diversity...it's the best of Web Summit 2017 and more
Issue 11: Sharks, refugees and enabling innovation through diversity...it's the best of Web Summit 2017 and more
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Issue 10: Dressing up as car seats, MVPs to inspire, auto-erecting robots and Cartman messing around with your Alexa
Issue 10: Dressing up as car seats, MVPs to inspire, auto-erecting robots and Cartman messing around with your Alexa
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Issue 9: The power of negativity, meet Woebot the chatbot therapist, bikes, more bikes and a stunning piece of innovation in insurance: trust
Issue 9: The power of negativity, meet Woebot the chatbot therapist, bikes, more bikes and a stunning piece of innovation in insurance: trust
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Issue 8: Focusing on the first time, every time; a beautiful response to data bullshit; breaking the rearview mirror conundrum & some fabulous fails
Issue 8: Focusing on the first time, every time; a beautiful response to data bullshit; breaking the rearview mirror conundrum & some fabulous fails
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Issue 7: Hope & joy from a fact-based expert, a useful manifesto for the brave new world of design with AI & the kids really are doing it for themselves
Issue 7: Hope & joy from a fact-based expert, a useful manifesto for the brave new world of design with AI & the kids really are doing it for themselves
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Issue 6: Changing the world with 5 new business models, streetwalk inspiration, paranoia & ruin in innovation plus some rather nice jumpers
Issue 6: Changing the world with 5 new business models, streetwalk inspiration, paranoia & ruin in innovation plus some rather nice jumpers
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Issue 5: Smartening up athletics, ditching the silver bullet, "artificial" waiting and some rather lovely tailoring...
Issue 5: Smartening up athletics, ditching the silver bullet, "artificial" waiting and some rather lovely tailoring...
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Issue 4: UX and bagels: exploring the science of choice; next generation blockchain and what’s really cool for teens in 2016…
Issue 4: UX and bagels: exploring the science of choice; next generation blockchain and what’s really cool for teens in 2016…
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Issue 3: A new bingo card for business meetings, are you jazz or classical in your mindset and a novel use for VR that is probably even less fun than it sounds...
Issue 3: A new bingo card for business meetings, are you jazz or classical in your mindset and a novel use for VR that is probably even less fun than it sounds...
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Issue 2: Leadership behaviour good & dishonest, a latter-day da Vinci & one risk of flying cracked by a 17 year old...
Issue 2: Leadership behaviour good & dishonest, a latter-day da Vinci & one risk of flying cracked by a 17 year old...
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Issue 1: The death of banks?, organising for innovation and the Babel Fish at last
Issue 1: The death of banks?, organising for innovation and the Babel Fish at last
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