Background
He was born in 1950 in Johnstone, Scotland and was educated at Street Joseph"s College, Blackpool and Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he read Engineering.
He was born in 1950 in Johnstone, Scotland and was educated at Street Joseph"s College, Blackpool and Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he read Engineering.
Trinity Hall.
He is the leading author of books of lateral thinking puzzles, many of the books are co-authored with Des MacHale. He worked for 11 years for International Business Machines Corporation, became United Kingdom Doctor of Medicine for Ashton-Tate and VP International for Mathsoft. He was the head of the Innovation Unit at the British Quality Foundation.
He writes on innovation, open innovation and crowdsourcing.
He helped develop the concept of the innovation camp. His books include The Innovative Leader, The Leader"s Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills, and A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing.
