Brains on the Outside: A Business Ideas Podcast

What's better when it's hot than having a lovely, cold ice cream? Well, let me tell you, it's more complicated than it looks to make that delicious treat! This week, we read a The Manufacturer articl…

We are back to offer our free consultancy service to solve a timeless problem: how to make queues suck less. Can we make the queues at Disney World better? We don’t know, but we try anyway.

Then, we f…

This week we read from the premier industry publication for manufacturing, The Manufacturer, and try to help them understand how to stop obsolescence in aerospace. To be totally honest, Andrew isn't …

Nigel Watson, a real life CIO, joins us for our first ever episode to feature a guest! This weeks jam-packed episode was recorded from Northumbria Water’s Innovation Festival, where we join forces to…

This week we help some brand new listeners with ideas about how to get someone out of the house they are refusing to leave. Our long time listener Helen sends us a fabulous idea of a pen that carries…

There are so many streaming services these days but... what if there was one more? A service to beat all other streaming services? Or... maybe there should be loads more? Thousands more? These are th…

What is the Universal Appeal of Mayonnaise? This week, inspired by an article Hellmann's has written in the food industry magazine The Grocer, we try to find out. Finding innovative, disruptive uses …

This week we tackle some big business and tech problems, inspired by actual things from our real non-podcasting jobs! How do we get people to get back to the office? And how can you cure an addiction…

This week we answer two extremely important questions:
What if instead of all those stupid qualifications you seem to need these days you just had a bunch of brownie badges?
And how do you protect your…

Alex imagines a new form of social media: partly the encyclopedia and partly a Scratch and Sniff. We also have two separate listeners contact us about their anxieties around packing, and we really tr…

So it seems we really like inventing by dice? We are back this week once again using Atomic Shrimps' Invention Dice! We invent up a way to use trees as a spreadsheet, a novel way of vandalising art, …

Relentlessly coming up with new business ideas can be hard! Luckily, this week we have some help! In this episode, we use Atomic Shrimps' Invention Dice to create a whole set of products, businesses …

Twitter is done for. Or is it. No it probably is. Or is it. Who knows really but the only sure fire way to really survive this social media apocalypse (or not) is to start a whole new better social n…

This week we're taking individually useful things and combining them into even better things.  We talk about generating power in new and fancy ways and then we save space in office buildings and home…

This week's episode is entirely dedicated to a reader's incredibly detailed email. We solve four real world problems for a real business. We discuss better ways to find places, we solve the travellin…

This week we've got even more practical business advice and viable start-up ideas. We discuss a business to ensure you never have to lie to a child, and ponder why grown-up beds are always such borin…

What do Poirot and Shania Twain have in common? They're both massive Outside Brains and they both feature in this week's episode. The first episode of our tricky transition into being a teenaged podc…

Petty corporate sabotage, Super First Class train tickets, and a way to review all the desks in your office. This Monday's episode has business ideas that have got you covered for all these concepts!…

Despite both of us catching covid we've managed to record! That's how dedicated we are.

In this episode we discuss two very different services - one that will improve every journey you ever take and o…