How to Innovate

If you pick up a copy of The Times today, you’ll find a profile of Nosy Crow in the latest edition of their SME supplement. This issue focusses on the question of how companies can innovate – Kate was interviewed about what makes an innovative business, and what Nosy Crow is doing in the digital reading space to innovate in children’s publishing.

Here’s what Kate said on digital reading:

“‘Publishers have been slower to embrace the possibilities of creating enhanced books and only a few of us are really active in this space,’ Wilson says. At all costs she is keen to avoid reading becoming ‘the most boring thing a child can do on a touch-screen device’.”

You can read the full piece here – and you might also be interested in this business profile in the Evening Standard, and this blogpost, by Kate, on “life after CEO”, and reflections on being fired (written after her appearance on The Bottom Line with Evan Davis).