Bio

- Innovation leader and expert. Software founder and tech evangelist. - Expert contributor for The Future Shapers on topics including Innovation Software, Innovation Archetypes, Innovation Ecosytems and more. - TEDx speaker (Sept 2015) - Innovation Archetypes - Author, blogger & speaker on topics relating to Collaborative Innovation, Crowdsourcing, Co-Creation, Intrapreneurship and more. - Guardian SME Leader of the Year 2014. - Top 15 Influencer in Crowdsourcing 2013 & 2014 - Angel Investor - Advisor to several B2B & B2C early stage tech businesses Innovation is not the for the few, it should be an inclusive and collaborative exercise embedded within the culture of organisations, of how we interact with our customers and suppliers. Through true open and engaging approaches to innovation and ideas drive real benefits and offer a source of genuine competitive advantage for companies and government departments. At Wazoku we build specialist Idea and Innovation Management software. We believe passionately in the power of open cultures built on a premise that through true collaboration and a focus on ideas and innovation. Our software is helping global businesses to develop these communities, to embed the processes to help generate, capture, evaluate, process, distill, develop, prioritise and select the best ideas. We are proud to work with some of the world's most innovative companies to help deliver new products and services, unearth great ideas for cost savings and efficiencies and develop the approach to employee engagement and communications around this.