How do you define Innovation?
Innovation is a very bandied around term in the world of business today but when we strip it back to its origins, what does it really mean?
How to benchmark your organisations Innovation Maturity
Often it is necessary to motivate for budget for innovation programmes. One of the easiest ways to achieve this is to assess the current state of innovation maturity in the organisation.
Innovation borne out of a challenge
Running challenge led accelerator trials are highly effective in fostering a culture of innovation that can in turn generate growth.
Insights lead to innovation, but what is an insight?
An insight is something in (your) sight, that wasn’t, before now. It exists already, but not something that you’ve opened your eyes to before.
The Lloyd’s Register Safety Accelerator
Working together with Lloyd’s Register we have been setting up a Safety Accelerator, to accelerate the adoption of digital technology for safety.
How to successfully apply for grant funding
Its not only difficult for businesses to get traditional forms of investment, it can also be very time consuming and expensive. However the opportunity to receive public funds and resource support, if your solution fits the criteria for a government grant, is a powerful enabler.
The Smart City and it’s Forgotten Citizen
The benefits of finding out what people want, before making decisions based on the limitations of your technology.
Movement in a Smart City
How can a smart city ease our movement in our ever growing urban spaces? Ten years ago global urban populations had already outgrown their rural...
The Road Less Travelled: Exploring new possibilites in human-centered urban wayfinding with Trueform
Tenshi are excited to kick off a new Design Thinking project with Trueform to explore how to better connect communities and citizens on the go, to...
On your marks, get set, go! A Design-Thinking Running Project with Walk with Path
The Tenshi team are excited to launch a new design thinking project with Walk with Path, to explore how we can help prevent, treat and rehabilitate...
Event: Join us for “Creating Space for Innovation and Creativity”
If you’re interested in practical ways to embed and sustain innovation and creativity in your organisation, please join us for Creating Space for...
Apply for Design Foundations funding now!
If you’re looking to explore new markets or products for your customers then act fast as Innovate UK currently offer a brilliant funding opportunity...
Using technology to revitalise the shopping experience – part two
Last month on the blog we showcased how SMEs are developing technology to help retailers in physical stores to hold their own against online...
To Grant Or Not To Grant
The Government funding safety brief With so many UK Government and EU funding and grant options available to give your company a bit of a boost, it...
Innovation – a basket of snakes
Innovation is a little like the lid to a basket of snakes. Underneath the buzzword there seems to be a swirling mass of options and opportunities,...
The 6 Circles Of Hell of a Cross-Sectoral Startup
Tenshi's Seren Eilmann talks about her experience as the founder of cross-sectoral start-up Heelosophy. Building a company like Heelosophy that has...
Using technology to revitalise the shopping experience – part one
In recent years online shopping has risen dramatically to the level where it has begun to impact the performance of physical stores. Reports show a...
Falling Out of Fortune
The creative destruction of the Fortune 1000 In 2011 Forbes predicted that over 70% of Fortune 1000 companies will lose their rank within a decade...
Building links between academic and commercial innovation
When analysing innovation and new developments happening within their sector businesses often look to within their own research and development...
Competition as a motivational force
Competition is a consistent driving force in human behaviour and has inspired many of the greatest technological advances from the race between...
Government guarantee means now is a great time to apply for Horizon 2020 funding
Thousands of British organisations will be pleased to learn that the government has confirmed it will guarantee to fulfil funds due on any Horizon...