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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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 

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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 

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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 

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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  

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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 

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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

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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

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