By all means go and see The Imitation Game, but make time to read more about one of the most important minds of modernity. There are good lessons to be learnt about innovation, design and collaboration.

You create models of the world using the tiny amount of data you’ve collected and seen, but if the model you’ve created doesn’t fit the real world well, it’s useless.

We’re hard-wired for imitation and hence, limitation. Here are three ways to improve group brainstorming and discussion, taken from our own experience.

When we think of young leaders, we tend to think of young people on the development path to leadership. It’s as if we deliberately ignore the actual, current leadership of young people.

Great ideas are like great art: they can be used and studied over and over, reaping large and concentrated profits for their owners. It is essential to develop and broaden the capabilities of engineers for greater output and more competitive ideas.

Engineers should have the breadth of skill, from mathematics to computing to domain expertise to communication, to make outstanding statisticians.

The Harvard Business Review has published a series of blogs on the subject "Persuading with Data". Here I survey the series by piecing together quotations from the blogs.

Software developers can easily run their programs on thousands or even millions of test files from their archives, but the opportunities provided by large datasets can be elusive.

Communication is about your audience, not about you. The responsibility of removing the impediments to your audience falls on you, the communicator, who wants something of value from those you speak to.

Your world is not your mentor’s world. In my experience, it’s more useful to have a network of mentors, each offering you a different viewpoint when you need advice.