About the Contributors

James Alexander

James is a Partner at The Foundation – a consultancy that helps businesses grow more quickly into new areas, or to fend off threats to their top line. He is also a trustee of GreenThing and the RSPB, and was previously Co-founder of ZOPA, the leading peer-to-peer landing company. Prior to this he was Strategy Director at Egg and an LEK consultant.

Peter Bryant

Peter is a Senior Fellow at the Kellogg Innovation Network and Partner at Clareo Partners based in Denver. He has extensive experience in helping companies in the IT, aerospace, and materials sectors to identify and exploit new opportunities.

David Coates

David was most recently Head of Knowledge Exchange at the Technology Strategy Board in the UK working across multiple sectors. He has an extensive background in technology, innovation, and strategy consulting and is part of the Future Agenda program team.

Charlie Dawson

Charlie is Founding Partner of The Foundation, which he established in 1999, and arose from the insight that long-term sustainable growth needed an approach that brought together different worlds – customers and business, creativity and rigour, strategy and practicality. Previously he was MD of the advertising agency that launched Daewoo Cars.

Cliff Dennett

Cliff is Commercial & Design Director at SOSHI Games creating game-based music discovery. He was previously a Senior Strategist at Orange, Innovation Director at EDS, and an independent trainer and innovation coach. ...

Get Growth Champions: The Battle for Sustained Innovation Leadership now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.