The pulse oximeter is one of the most quietly successful medical devices ever made. Clip it to a finger, and it tells you how much oxygen is in someone's blood. Cheap, fast, non-invasive. During the pandemic it was the instrument that decided who got escalated to oxygen and who was sent home. There was one problem. It works by shining light through the skin and melanin absorbs light. On patients with darker skin, readings drift high, sometimes by several percentage points. In a decision where...

Everyone wants to be more innovative. But most people are looking in the wrong place. They run brainstorming sessions. They set up idea boxes. They hire consultants to run workshops that generate colourful sticky notes and ambitious flip-chart diagrams. And then... not much happens. The ideas were fine. So why didn't anything change? Because innovation doesn't fail at the idea stage. It fails long before that. The Idea Myth There's a stubborn belief in business that the hard part of...

The Race to Adopt New Technology Is Accelerating, But Capability Is Not Across industries, organisations are investing heavily in artificial intelligence, automation and digital transformation. Boards are approving new technology budgets. Governments are funding innovation programmes. Investors are backing companies that promise to scale through advanced tools and platforms. Yet despite this surge in spending, many organisations are discovering a difficult reality. Technology is moving faster...