Wazoku Blog

One of the delights of a global crowd is the variety and diversity of the stories it throws up. Every day, somewhere in the world, people use their knowledge and lived experience to solve issues that companies are facing. In this blog series, we want to share some of the best and brightest stories with you.

Harvard Business Review recently published an article looking at the four types of innovators that a company needs to succeed. In this blog, we look at how Wazoku’s Challenge Driven Innovation® methodology helps support these different people across an organization.

Earlier this month, Fortune published an article that looked at ‘Irresponsible Innovation’ and the effect that this phenomenon is having on some of the world’s biggest companies. In this blog, we take a look at how – using Wazoku best practice – companies can begin to turn the tide towards more responsible paths to innovation.

Earlier this month, a team from Wazoku attended the Innovation Roundtable Summit in Copenhagen. Across three days they networked with, presented to, and held workshops with corporate innovation leaders. In this blog, Ella Scammell reflects on the event.

Malaria remains one of the world’s most prevalent infectious diseases, alongside tuberculosis and HIV. Hundreds of millions of people around the world are infected by the disease – carried by mosquitos – each year. In Kenya alone, 2020 saw 6.9 million recorded cases.

Every year, TIME magazine recognizes the 100 best inventions of the year, a tribute to humanity’s ability to innovate and adapt to problems facing society. In 2022, it chose to double the size of the list and celebrate 200 inventions that highlight the boom in innovation as a result of our rapidly changing world.

For 35 years, IdeasUK has brought innovation and idea management specialists together to reinvigorate and share their knowledge, each collaborating across corporate boundaries to gain new insights. Lisa Jackaman was part of the Wazoku team that attended IdeasUK’s 35^th International Conference in November 2022. In this blog, she reflects on the experience.

The term collective intelligence covers technology enabled processes in which large groups of individuals gather, share, or generate knowledge, data, and skills – as such it is a field that holds massive potential for the private and public sectors. However, collective intelligence is still an emerging field, and a large knowledge gap persists in academia as well as across the private and public sector.

Last year, ten of the world’s biggest airlines came together to launch the Aviation Climate Taskforce (ACT). Recognizing that the industry currently contributes nearly a billion metric tons of CO₂ annually, the group was set up to accelerate breakthroughs in innovation that will bring this figure down. The industry has set a target for net zero by 2050, but the growing electrification of carbon sources puts these plans under threat.

Earlier this month, Innov8rs hosted its first event ever in the United States. A team from Wazoku was in attendance at the summit, where presentations, networking, and conversations on innovation ran across two packed days. Here, Molly Cariker, one of Wazoku's representatives at the event, shares her thoughts on the team's time in Austin.

In a November 6^th 2022 article, the European Business Review explained how open innovation and crowdsourcing can be seen as a cure-all until the ideas become too unfamiliar, a mindset that can see many innovations being dropped before their success. In this blog, we relate how Oguz A. Acar suggests breaking down the biases that promote this kind of thinking.

Having enjoyed a great time at the Spring Innovation Roundtable event this year, Wazoku will return to Copenhagen next week as part of the Fall Innovation Roundtable. Our representatives will host workshops, co-present with customers, and network with attendees, showing how we can change the world, one idea at a time.