Jo Coles is a a chartered scientist, working as a flood risk modelling and...
STEM Mentor: Spurring on ways to find new and engaging ways to talk about science
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Feature: Girls in STEM
STEM Mentor: Pushing the boundaries of the next generation of science and technology
Elaine Baxter is a Chemist and Director of Boutique Innovation People often ask me why I took on a career as a scientist and the honest answer is that for as long as I can remember, I have always been fascinated by science. From an early age I was interested in...
STEM Mentor: The Futurist Connecting Science, Art And Play
Yesim Kunter is a Play Expert, Futurist. Here she explains how play connects with science and art, bringing left brain thinking and right-brain thinking beautifully together. I’m a Play Futurist…. I love what I do! It is a fascinating role that involves range of...
STEM Mentor: The amazing woman behind Coders of Colour
Tolúlọpẹ́ Ògúnrẹ̀mý is the Founder of the award-winning organisation Coders of Colour. It's an organisation with the aim of getting under-represented people of colour into the technology industry and providing an opportunity for them to experiment with coding in a...
Inventing Emotional Innovation
In today’s world we know that brands will only be successful if they connect emotionally with their users. This is more straight forward for markets that create an obvious and close bond with consumers such as fashion or travel, but how often are we doing this...
Innovation Gym: A new way to improve your Innovation Skills
Innovation is all about seeking out new and better ways to do things. So when it came to creating our innovation training, we also looked for new and better ways….asking ourselves how we could help clients build innovation skills, even when they tell us that...
Rob Morgan Delves Into Academic Theories On Innovation
We were delighted for Rob Morgan, Sir Julian Hodge Chair and Professor of Marketing & Strategy, to join us on our recent Innovation Gym Webinar. His academic insight into the world of asset mining is fascinating. We've pulled together some of his best quotes from...
What’s New In Human Insight Methodologies?
The world moving online over the past year has necessitated innovation in market research methodologies. With digital techniques already prominent in every researcher's toolbox, there was a broader need to adopt and accelerate online methods that capture actual human...
Why Innovation Teams Should Untap Existing Assets To Enrich Future Projects.
Our recent Innovation Gym webinar explored the topic of Asset Mining with guest speakers Rob Morgan and Dr Youmna Mouhamad. Here at Untapped, we typically define Asset Mining as a process that takes teams back through existing knowledge-based assets before embarking...
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Partner at Untapped Innovations
Nicholas Fearn
Features Editor at XDA Developers
Iman Kassim
BSc IT apprentice with BMW Group
Quick Reads
OnTap Innovation Gym Webinar: Untapping Innovation Value From Your Existing Assets
Unlocking Innovation Value With Your Existing Assets Wednesday 12th May at 12 pm GMT Register Here Webinar Outline We firmly believe that every business, no matter how big or small, is sitting on riches or ‘assets’ that are lying dormant or underused. Before we...
Driving Sustainable Innovation in Packaging: How to navigate through the sustainable materials minefield.
Packaging expert and founder of Medoola, Neil Shackleton, highlights the struggles of large Consumer Product Groups when it comes to sustainable packaging innovation. Should they meet claims or create them? ‘How do we reduce or even eliminate packaging to save the...
RECAP: Human Vs. Tech Led Innovation – Who Will Win?
Gosh, Erin Baker, New Car Editorial Director at Auto Trader wrote this for us in 2018 and clearly had her finger on the pulse! At Untapped we’re always interested in how people see human vs. tech led innovation. This week the very fabulous Erin Baker has given us her...
Asset Mining – Seeking Untapped Insights To Inspire Big, New Ideas
What Is Asset Mining? We firmly believe that every business, no matter how big or small, is sitting on riches or ‘assets’ that are frequently lying dormant or underused. Before we commission research or develop new ideas, we spend time with all our clients up-front...
The best tech-for-good innovations of 2020
The world faces a range of enormous challenges in the 21st century, including climate change, extreme poverty, health pandemics and many other crises. But while finding solutions to these issues won’t be an easy task, technological advancements and deep user...
How Should Brands Untap All That Is Great In A Product?
Highly skilled engineers and scientists develop brilliant products all the time which are designed to solve a multitude of user needs. The familiar innovation methodology often starts with the user, defines what's needed, then connects this with what's possible....
Books and Podcasts we love
Simple Tips, Smart Ideas
by Erica Wolfe-Murray
Behavioral Insights (MIT Press Essential Knowledge)
by Michael Hallsworth
Yuval Noah Harari: What Makes Us Human?
Podcast by BBC2