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Anthony Impey MBE is CEO of SME support network Be the Business, and he wants to change the world. Today he slips off his super-hero cloak and joins Professor Neil Maiden to delve into the UK’s productivity problems and discuss what can be done to solve them.     Be The Business has supported an increase in SME productivity to the tune of £462 million in the UK, and in this wide ranging conversation we discuss the current challenges facing business owners; why we are now in the “Age of the Entrepreneur”; how uncertainty creates opportunities for business; and the generative AI tools that will support productivity.      Produced by Emilia Rolewicz  Executive Producer Sam Steele   Theme music generated by AI @ www.dsoundraw.io  Links  Be the Business website https://www.bethebusiness.com/   Anthony Impey Twitter @Impmister  Anthony Impey LinkedIn    CebAI: twitter LinkedIn Website email    Business-Sparks  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alice Frost, Director of Knowledge Exchange at Research England, discusses the UK’s knowledge economy and the dark art of getting innovative ideas out of higher education to create real-world impact.    How well is the UK doing in this field? Alice explains her obsession with evidence, avoiding “wifty wafty” stakeholder engagement, and how the UK’s academic research and development achievements translate into £billions of pounds for the UK economy. If you are interested in the current debate on the wholesale reform of how universities think about their spin out and licencing strategies, this podcast is for you.    Produced by Emilia Rolewicz  Executive Producer Sam Steele   Theme music generated by AI @ www.dsoundraw.io  Links  UK Research England website UK Research England (UKRI)    Alice Frost LinkedIn    CebAI: twitter LinkedIn Website email    DesignSparks    SportSparks    Business-Sparks  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How can businesses of every size learn to embrace curiosity and creativity?  Andy Wilkins, business consultant; Honorary Visiting Fellow at Bayes Business School; and co-founder of consultancy Perspectiv, discusses creativity in business with Professor Neil Maiden.  The conversation covers a wide range of issues and considers how ten years ago, industrial focus was on process improvements, which has now given way to the leadership of complexity, establishing cultures, and the delusion of self-awareness. The current business environment is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) and this podcast offers insights from two experienced guides in business and creativity.    Produced by Emilia Rolewicz  Executive Producer Sam Steele   Theme music generated by AI @ www.dsoundraw.io  Links  Perspectiv website https://www.perspectiv.co.uk/  Andy Wilkins Twitter @AndrewNWilkins  Andy Wilkins LinkedIn Andy Wilkins  Course Masters in Innovation Creativity & Leadership   Book Breaking the Code of Change  Amy Edmondson Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Today’s Leaders Must Learn To Think Like Scientists  Professor Ruth Noller Creativity Equation  Paper: The Creativity Crisis  CebAI: twitter LinkedIn Website email    DesignSparks    SportSparks    Business-Sparks  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anna Whitelock is Executive Dean of the School of Communication & Creativity, at City University of London. She also just happens to be an expert in the history of the UK Monarchy and had a few things to say about the recent coronation of King Charles III.  The School of Communication and Creativity was opened in the Autumn of 2022 and Anna explains what it’s all about and how their ambition is to break the mould of performing arts schools and be more accessible to a wider range of students with a focus on diversity and inclusivity and an ambition to change the creative industries.  This wide-ranging conversation takes in the need to support creativity in business, defines creative intelligence and examines the fundamental differences between human creativity and AI-generated content.    Produced by Emilia Rolewicz  Executive Producer Sam Steele   Theme music generated by AI @ www.dsoundraw.io  Links  Anna Whitelock Twitter @annawhitelock  School of Communication and Creativity Twitter @CityUniSCC  Anna Whitelock  LinkedIn   Website: School of Creativity and Communication   Courses: Masters in Innovation Creativity & Leadership    CebAI: twitter LinkedIn Website email    DesignSparks    SportSparks    Business-Sparks    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s CreAtIve Tech podcast is a sports roundtable. Professor Neil Maiden is joined by Stuart Armstrong, Strategic Lead for Workforce Transformation at Sport England, and Alex Wolf, Sports Consultant and founder of Strength and Conditioning Academy.  Stuart and Alex consider the culture of curiosity and creativity that sports coaching must support for successful outcomes; the importance of psychological safety in training; and the effects of power dynamics on coaches and athletes.  Join the debate on the difference between good and bad sports coaching, re-appraising coaching behaviour, and why being tough and mean is antithetical to high performance.    Produced by Emilia Rolewicz  Executive Producer Sam Steele   Theme music generated by AI @ www.dsoundraw.io  Links  Strength and Conditioning Academy https://strengthconditioning.academy/   Play Their Way website https://www.playtheirway.org/   Alex Wolf Twitter @AlexpWolf  Alex Wolf LinkedIn   Stuart Armstrong LinkedIn  Stuart Armstrong podcast Talent Equation podcast  CebAI: twitter LinkedIn Website email    SportSparks  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hamish McAlpine is a Director at international innovation consultancy company, Oxentia. In September 2023, CebAI and Oxentia won funding to develop a co-creative AI tool to accelerate high-growth companies.  To kick off series 3 of the Creative Tech podcast, Professor Neil Maiden and Hamish McAlpine discuss the aims of the project, AI tech strategies for business consultancies, working with global innovators, the future of AI, and the most important questions of the day – Barbie or Oppenheimer? and how Douglas Adams’ was 50 years ahead of his time…  Produced by Sam Steele   Theme music generated by AI @ www.dsoundraw.io  Links  Oxentia website https://www.oxentia.com/   Hamish McAlpine Twitter @hamish_mcalpine  Hamish McAlpine LinkedIn Hamish McAlpine   UK Research England (UKRI)      CebAI: twitter LinkedIn Website email    DesignSparks    SportSparks    Business-Sparks  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who controls technology? How is it developed? Who benefits from AI? How do we change things for the best? Cultural curator Irini Papadimitriou, Creative Director at innovation lab and cultural agency, Future Everything, on challenging norms, queering datasets, and inherent bias in artificial intelligence. From the LAPD and deadly robots to the National Trust, Irini champions inclusivity in technology using art and collaborating with a wide array of innovative artists from around the world.   Produced by Diana Squires Edited by Emilia Rolewicz Executive Producer Sam Steele Theme music generated by AI @ www.soundraw.io Links   You and AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens National Trust at Quarry Bank: Unintended Consequences The Normalising Machine Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Bill Balaskas Forensic Architecture Adam Harvey: V-Frame Jake Elwes: Zizi - Queering the Dataset Creative Comm 21 Future Everything CebAI: twitter LinkedIn Website email   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this free and frank exchange of views we look inside life at the very top of elite coaching with Nigel Redman, former Team GB Olympic swimming coach, now England Rugby’s 'Kingmaker' and Head of Team Performance. And Chris McLeod who looks after the UK's top tennis talent in his role as lead strength and conditioning coach at the Lawn Tennis Association. Together with host, Professor Neil Maiden, the panel discuss the importance of getting out of your comfort zone and listening to people with more diverse experiences and points of view; the difference between boundaries and barriers; how important the environment is to supporting or suppressing creativity; and the dead weight of tradition in sports coaching that impedes new and more creative ways of working.   Produced by Diana Squires Executive Producer Sam Steele Theme music generated by AI @ www.soundraw.io Links   England Rugby Lawn Tennis Association Masters in Creativity, Innovation & Leadership CebAI: twitter LinkedIn Website email Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is your body part of the interface? Do you track your health and fitness on your smart phone? Are you quantifying yourself to the point of modification? Do you realise how much money corporations can make from the personal data you upload to the web?   Ghislaine Boddington is an award-winning Creative Director, Presenter and Researcher. She is a Cofounder of body>data>space (fka shinkansen), an interactive design collective based in East London who have advocated for the living body to be at the heart of the digital debate since the early 1990s. She is a Reader in Digital Immersion at the School of Design, University of Greenwich where she researches the future of collective embodiment under her theme “The Internet of Bodies”.   In this episode, Ghislaine speaks with Professor Neil Maiden about why technology should enhance not just the brain but the body, the blurred virtual and physical world the pandemic created, and reveals the single most important thing she needs in order to be creative Produced by Diana Squires Edited by Emilia Rolewicz Executive Producer Sam Steele Theme music generated by AI @ www.dsoundraw.io   Links Ghislaine Boddington The Internet of Bodies website. Ghislaine Boddington biog Ghislaine Boddington twitter CebAI: twitter LinkedIn Website email Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How do self-defence classes make you a better negotiator? What do F1 crews and KPMG consultants have in common? Parenting, innovation and being a leader at Microsoft, all covered in this conversation with high-roller Bunmi Durowoju, Senior Strategic Business Development Manager at Microsoft. Professor Neil Maiden and Bunmi discuss what stops leaders from being creative, how to nurture creative self-belief, and why ensuring diverse voices creates the most innovative solutions. Bunmi is brilliantly pragmatic on EDI issues, an advocate for inclusive, sustainable, humanistic leadership within Microsoft, and heads up the Underrepresented Ethnic Group (UEG, BAME) initiatives for Women@Microsoft UK.   Produced by Diana Squires Edited by Emilia Rolewicz Executive Producer Sam Steele Theme music generated by AI @ www.soundraw.io Links Bunmi Durowoju CebAI: twitter LinkedIn Website email Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's it like working with Dominic Cummings? How can we innovate effectively in large organisations? How does a Japanese TV presenter fit in to all of this? In this wide-ranging chat, Neil Maiden catches up with Sir Professor Finkelstein, MBE, an old friend and former Chief Scientific Advisor for the British government. This conversation spans his distinguished career from software systems research, through innovation in government to his new role leading City, University of London. Prof Finkelstein discusses what he made of working with Dominic Cummings, the concept of creative destruction and what constrains creativity in institutional systems. He explains how strategic venture capital can be used to drive change in organisations; the importance of taking lessons from de-clutter queen Marie Kondo, and confesses to the one thing that he needs to be creative.  Produced by Diana Squires   Executive Producer Sam Steele   Theme music generated by AI @ www.soundraw.io  Links  Anthony Finkelstein website https://finkelstein.uk/  Anthony Finkelstein blog  Anthony Finkelstein Twitter @profserious  Marie Kondo https://konmari.com/  CebAI: twitter LinkedIn Website email    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who takes their inspiration from John Cleese? Who would bin education? And you would never guess who wants to ban robots.... We kick-off series two with some of the highlights from last season. Every week, we invite some of the world's smartest thinkers in creativity and technology to have a chat with Professor Neil Maiden, the director of the Centre for Creativity enabled by AI. At the end of every conversation we ask our guest the same three questions - What do they need be creative? What new app would they create? and What piece of tech would they bin if they had the chance? From the godfather of user centre computer design, Ben Shneiderman, to Ted Talker and business author Margaret Heffernan, behavioural psychologist Richard Chataway, renowned digital artist and pioneer Ernest Edmonds, creative problem solving guru Scott Isaksen, and innovation expert Dr Sara Jones, we have gathered up their responses to our regular three question feature. Produced by Diana Squires Executive Producer and Presenter Sam Steele Theme music generated by AI @ www.dsoundraw.io Connect with the National Centre for Creativity enabled by AI www.linktr.ee/CebAI Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.