Creative Tech Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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  

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Links 

Be the Business website https://www.bethebusiness.com/  

Anthony Impey Twitter @Impmister 

Anthony Impey LinkedIn 

CebAI: twitter LinkedIn Website email 

Business-Sparks 

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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 

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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 

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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.

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Executive Producer and Presenter Sam Steele

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Connect with the National Centre for Creativity enabled by AI www.linktr.ee/CebAI

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Dr Jones is a pioneer in the field of interdisciplinary creativity. A lecturer in Creative Interactive System Design at Bayes Business School, and the Director of the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice, Sara has been instrumental in developing international collaborations and post grad business courses that focus on injecting creativity and innovation into business and MBA-level students.

In this podcast she discusses her work collaborating with businesses and academics across the world, the role of education in engendering innovation skills in students, how technology can play a part in that process, and, the one single thing that she would get rid of to make humans more creative!

Links

Dr Sara Jones

Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice

Masters, Innovation Creativity and Leadership (MICL)

Bayes Business School

Centre for Creativity Enabled by AI (CebAI)

Twitter

LinkedIn

Email

City, University of London

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Ernest Edmonds distinguished career spans nearly 60 years. He is an exhibited artist in his own right and an international expert on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), specialising in creative technologies.

Professor Neil Maiden interviews this computer art pioneer, discussing how art, computer science and cognitive psychology have converged since the 1980s and have changed the HCI journey, from the "ease of use" 80s and 90s to today's desire to "enhance creativity". They discuss the problem with Machine Learning and the trouble with artists and the one thing un today's world that Ernest would happily see disappear.

Links

Ernest Edmonds

CebAI: twitter LinkedIn Website email

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Margaret Heffernan is a hugely successful CEO, award-winning author and has given no less than four Ted Talks. With direct and incisive insights, she effortlessly explodes myths and mysteries around how businesses succeed and what type of behaviour is required to build teams that are innovative.

In this podcast Margaret talks to Professor Neil Maiden about what she considers to be the biggest communication failure of her lifetime, the one thing that she loathes with a passion above all else, and why vertically integrated projects are the way forward.

Links

Margaret Heffernan

CebAI: twitter LinkedIn Website email

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Professor Neil Maiden is talking to author and behavioural psychologist Richard Chataway. Richard heads up an international business consultancy called BVA Nudge Unit whose job is to help businesses and governments to become more successful. He uses his understanding of human behavioural psychology to come up with processes that compel positive change and successful business adaption.

Richard discusses his philosophy on how to be an effective communicator. Stay tuned to the end to learn how you can get an exclusive 25% discount off his book 'The Behaviour Business: How to Apply Behavioural Science for Business Success'

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Scott Isaksen, author of the set-text “Creative Approaches to Problem Solving: A framework for innovation and change”; founder and CEO of international business consultancy CPSB Group, and a Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour in conversation with Professor Neil Maiden.

Scott discusses the need for deeper diversity of thought in business and how the Covid 19 pandemic has had a positive effect on business innovation. He also explains where the literal origins of the phrase "to debug your computer" comes from...

Links

Scott Isaksen:

CPSB Group

CebAI:

twitter

LinkedIn

Website

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Ben Shneiderman is the father of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). He created much that we take for granted in our digital world - clickable highlighted web-links, and touchscreen keyboards on mobile devices for starters. Here he talks to Professor Neil Maiden of the UK's National Centre for Creativity enabled by AI (CebAI) about the subject of creativity and technology and why our apps need to evolve to enable users to have greater control of the creative activities they are using digital tools for.

In this podcast he talks to Professor Neil Maiden of the UK's National Centre for Creativity enabled by AI (CebAI) about why apps need to evolve to enable users more control of their creative activities. He explains why metaphors like "social robots" and “intelligent computers" are unhelpful, and describes how AI can be a fundamental part of the process for developing creative self belief.

Links

Ben Shneiderman:

groups.google.com/g/human-centered-ai

twitter.com/HumanCentredAI

CebAI:

twitter.com/CebAICentre

www.linkedin.com/company/national…ty-enabled-by-ai

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