Anne Miller

The low carbon transition can stimulate innovation

By rnd-admin
on 15 November, 2017

Thinking creatively about the low carbon transition can stimulate new thinking and motivate staff to innovate; bringing big benefits to the bottom line, both now and in the immediate future.

Kids deserve creativity – and so do employers

By rnd-admin
on 30 August, 2017

Without creativity, how are young people to participate in the exciting world of innovation and development that those of us involved in RADMA find so satisfying and profitable? Anne Miller puts the case for creativity on the curriculum.

Ideation and creativity in R&D

By rnd-admin
on 11 May, 2017

Creativity can seem quite a messy discipline, but I find it useful to categorise it into 4 aspects: process, people, product and place, based on work by the pioneering US creativity researcher, Mel Rhodes.

Innovation can help when obstacles seem overwhelming

Brexit as an innovation challenge

By rnd-admin
on 31 March, 2017

Many R&D managers will recognise the feeling of being asked to achieve a complex multifaceted project with an apparently impossible timescale and distracting internal politics, while being under-resourced and under huge pressure to "just get on with it". However...

How to increase your creative success rate by a factor of 10

By rnd-admin
on 10 January, 2017

The great thing about having a genuine variety of ideas, is that it very substantially reduces the risk of R&D. This is because variety stimulates creativity and having a genuine choice allows good quality decisions.