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Simon Hill

CEO at Wazoku

London, United Kingdom

Simon Hill is an award-winning innovation leader, author, and entrepreneur dedicated to transforming how organisations measure and deliver innovation performance. As CEO and founder of Wazoku, he has helped global enterprises, governments, and institutions turn ideas into measurable value through data-driven innovation systems.

The creator of the Expected Value (xV) model and a key contributor to international innovation standards, Simon’s work bridges creativity and analytics — proving that innovation can be both human and measurable.

He is a Forbes journalist and Entrepreneur in Residence at INSEAD, where he teaches innovation and entrepreneurship. His thinking is influenced by sport, data science, and behavioural economics , always focused on one question: how can we make innovation perform?

Available For: Advising, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Stockholm
Speaking Topics: The Future of Innovation Performance, Expected Value (xV): Measuring the Measurable in Innovation, From Innovation Theatre to Innovation System, Total

Speaking Fee $10,000 (In-Person), $5,000 (Virtual)

Simon Hill Points
Academic 40
Author 67
Influencer 148
Speaker 0
Entrepreneur 10
Total 265

Points based upon Thinkers360 patent-pending algorithm.

Thought Leader Profile

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Company Information

Company Type: Service Provider
Business Unit: Executive
Minimum Project Size: Undisclosed
Average Hourly Rate: Undisclosed
Number of Employees: Undisclosed
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed
Media Experience: 10 years
Last Media Training: 09/23/2025
Last Media Interview: 11/03/2025

Areas of Expertise

Agentic AI 30.10
Agile
AI 30.17
AI Infrastructure 30.78
Analytics 30.04
Business Strategy 30.26
Change Management 30.03
Climate Change 30.65
Cloud 30.03
Creativity 30.33
Culture 30.10
Design Thinking
Digital Transformation 30.06
Economics 31.52
Ecosystems 30.06
Emerging Technology 30.44
Energy 31.44
Engineering 30.05
Entrepreneurship 33.48
Finance 30.42
Future of Work 30.06
Generative AI 30.07
Health and Wellness 30.08
Healthcare 31.12
Innovation 33.15
International Relations 30.30
IT Strategy 30.38
Leadership 30.89
Legal and IP 30.17
Marketing 30.01
Mergers and Acquisitions 30.29
National Security 30.68
Open Innovation 30.09
Personal Branding 30.10
Quantum Computing 31.44
Risk Management 30.03
Social 30.32
Startups 30.06
Sustainability 30.73
Telecom 30.37
Venture Capital 32.62

Industry Experience

Aerospace & Defense
Automotive
Engineering & Construction
Federal & Public Sector
Financial Services & Banking
Healthcare
Higher Education & Research
Insurance
Manufacturing
Oil & Gas
Pharmaceuticals
Professional Services
Retail

Publications & Experience

9 Article/Blogs
What is Water?
Linkedin
February 19, 2026
For most of human history, water behaved.

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Tags: Innovation, IT Strategy, National Security

What is Water Part 3?
Linkedin
February 12, 2026
It feeds crops, cools reactors and data centres, powers cities, lubricates factories, and underpins the ecosystems we call home. Yet most of the time we don’t see it, don’t measure it, and don’t design around it. We assume it will show up when we need it, from taps, from reservoirs, from aquifers, without ever acknowledging that water is infrastructure just as essential as roads, power lines, and digital networks.

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Tags: AI, Climate Change, Innovation

What is Water Part 2?
Linkedin
February 05, 2026
Water looks ordinary until you look past the obvious. We drink it, swim in it, ship goods on it, generate power with it, and irrigate crops with it. Yet beneath this ordinary façade lies a set of physical properties so unusual that they defy the rules that govern almost every other substance on Earth.

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Tags: Climate Change

Corporate Innovation Structures: A Centralized Center of Excellence for Decentralized Innovation at Scale
Linkedin
October 14, 2023
The Role of a Centralized Center of Excellence for Innovation

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Tags: AI, Innovation

A step-by-step guide to driving sustainable innovation in business
Linkedin
July 22, 2016
In what has been an incredible few months personally and professionally, it is nice some times to stop and take a moment. I have been a contributor to Freshbusinessthinking.com for some time and recently took on a more regular gig with them and I wanted to share this post originally posted on their site in March this year....I hope you enjoy the read:

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Tags: Change Management, Culture, Innovation

It's time to stop looking for shortcuts to innovation success
Linkedin
March 12, 2016
We have become lazy innovators. Innovation is now such a buzzword, its become cheap, throw away and tantamount to meaningless. We throw it around without second thought. After all, if we are not innovative we are nothing. No one will want to work for a company that isn’t innovative. No one will do innovation if we don’t put it in their job title or job description. Innovation is a cheap commodity, used by marketing and HR teams to manipulate consumers (how many brands promote “innovation” as their thing explicitly), or to entice people to come and work for a highly innovative organisation. We are suckers for some good innovation marketing.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Culture, Innovation

EveryDay Innovation: The New Innovation Conversation
Linkedin
October 22, 2015
In 2011 I took the bold step to establish Wazoku. In 2015 together with my incredible team we released the EveryDay Innovation report and within a few days of its release it was covered by the Evening Standard and Forbes, with additional coverage in the Sunday Telegraph and beyond.

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Tags: Culture, Innovation, Leadership

Is the connected enterprise becoming a reality? Why integrating innovation software into the Microsoft enterprise suite is all kinds of awesome!
Linkedin
September 18, 2015
I apologise that some of the following is a bit self-promoting, but work with me and if you are as passionate as me about making the connected enterprise and true digital workplace a reality then I hope you will find this interesting:

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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Is All This Technology Really Helping?
Linkedin
July 14, 2015
I was in a meeting last week with a senior team from a leading retailer. We were talking about a range of subjects around culture and technology when one person in the room exhaled and declared, “we have every single tool there is and we have a great culture, but nothing changes and people don’t really use the tools, at least not how we want them to…”

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Tags: Culture, Digital Transformation, Innovation

58 Author Newsletters
Greater Together?
Linkedin
May 28, 2026
(Part 1) Notes from day one of Greater Together LA.
A delegation of 250 British leaders came to Los Angeles to make the case for Britain. The most useful parts were about what the case still has to earn.
Last week was a WOW week.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Innovation, Leadership

Newsletter has Moved
Linkedin
April 09, 2026
Last week I shared the new home for the newsletter => infinite-loop.co/newsletter. Obviously, subscribers here may not have seen that edition, so I am sharing the link here for the next few weeks too, but the core newsletter is now MOVED HOME.

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Tags: Innovation, IT Strategy, National Security

A Newsletter about the Newsletter!
Linkedin
March 26, 2026
A Year of Ideas and One Big Question
About 18 months ago, I started writing a newsletter called Ideas for a Better World. Which, in hindsight, feels a bit like saying: 18 months ago, I started talking into the void and hoping someone might occasionally wave back.

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Tags: Creativity, Marketing, Personal Branding

The Gopher Theory
Linkedin
March 20, 2026
There's a management lesson buried under the ash of Mount St. Helens. Quite literally.

When the volcano erupted in 1980, it didn't just rewrite the landscape. It incinerated it. Miles of thriving ecosystem reduced to collapsing slabs of porous pumice. A few seeds dropped by birds. A handful of struggling seedlings. Otherwise: nothing.

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Tags: AI, Innovation, Leadership

What is Water?
Linkedin
March 05, 2026
Part VI: Designing With Water

For most of modern history, we designed around water.

We built cities assuming rivers would stay put. We planned agriculture around predictable rainfall. We scaled industry and energy systems on the assumption that water would be cheap, abundant, and reliable.

That approach worked, until it didn’t.

This final part of What is Water? is about what comes next. Not how to control water, extract more of it, or push it further, but how to design with it, recognising water as an ancient system with rules, limits, and rhythms that innovation must respect rather than override.

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Tags: Climate Change, Innovation, Sustainability

What is Water?
Linkedin
February 26, 2026
Part V: Who Controls the Flow

Water does not just move through landscapes. It moves through power structures.

Who gets water, when, how much, and at what quality is never a neutral question. It is shaped by borders, laws, infrastructure, pricing, history, and force. Every society has a water politics, whether it acknowledges it or not.

This is Part V of What is Water? An exploration of water as power and governance, and why control of flow increasingly shapes inequality, stability, and cooperation at global scale.

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Tags: Climate Change, International Relations, Sustainability

What is Water?
Linkedin
January 29, 2026
More than half the water on Earth is older than the Sun. Not metaphorically older, but literally older, formed in interstellar ice before our solar system existed. Every glass of water contains molecules that predate every civilisation, institution, technology, economic system, and global infrastructure humans have ever created.

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Tags: Climate Change, Innovation, Sustainability

The Ten Structural Shifts of the 2030 Economy
Linkedin
January 15, 2026
How today’s forces create tomorrow’s economic architecture.
In the first part of this series, I explored the five forces reshaping the world today, the acceleration of intelligence, the rise of human-centred work, the fluidity of talent, the emergence of platform nations, and the collapse and rebuilding of trust.

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Tags: AI, Business Strategy, Innovation

The Five Forces Reshaping Business Today
Linkedin
January 08, 2026
Why the next five years will redefine the logic of value itself.
We are entering one of the most consequential economic transitions in living memory. Not because of a single disruptive technology or geopolitical event, but because multiple structural forces are converging at once, accelerating, amplifying, and reshaping how organisations create, measure, and sustain value.

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Infrastructure

Is the UK Budget Creating Value, or Just Moving It?
Linkedin
December 18, 2025
A systems-thinking reflection, building on our recent conversations about value.

Over the past few months, we have been exploring a simple but unsettling idea: most of what we call “value” is just movement, not creation. Shifts, transfers, reallocations. Numbers that rise because something elsewhere fell.

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Tags: Economics, Innovation

AI: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once?
Linkedin
December 11, 2025
Everyone is talking about AI, but almost no one is talking about the same thing.

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Infrastructure

Ideas for a Better World: String Theory – Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe
Linkedin
December 05, 2025
Welcome back to Ideas for a Better World, where we continue our journey through the fascinating landscape of multidimensionality. So far, we’ve explored the Multiverse Theory and the Many-Worlds Interpretation, each offering a dive into the mind-bending possibilities of parallel universes and alternate realities.

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Tags: Emerging Technology, Innovation, Quantum Computing

What is Value? Part II: Value Before It Becomes Visible
Linkedin
December 04, 2025
In Ideas for a Better World #45, I asked the question, "What is Value?" and it drove a great conversation. It led me to dig a little deeper into this important question and definition. Here is the output....

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Tags: Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Innovation

What is an S-Curve?
Linkedin
November 27, 2025
Progress has a strange sense of humour. It moves slowly when we want it fast, then fast when we are least ready, then flat just when we finally start paying attention. Plot that over time and you get the most important, most misunderstood shape in innovation: the S-curve.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Emerging Technology, Innovation

The Innovation Reset in Heavy Industry: Why the Next Decade Belongs to Decision-Driven Organisations
Linkedin
November 18, 2025
Something unusual is happening across the world’s asset-heavy industries. Maritime, logistics, energy, transport, manufacturing, fields typically defined by stability and engineering certainty, are now in the middle of a silent but profound transformation.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Risk Management

What is Value?
Linkedin
November 13, 2025
Innovation is the creation of new or novel value.

But what exactly is value?

We talk about value as if it is obvious. Yet if you pause and ask what it really means, the question opens a chasm beneath modern business thinking. Is value money? Growth? Utility? Happiness? Or is it something subtler, the invisible expansion of human possibility?

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Tags: Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Innovation

Applying xV to the #1 Growth Stock: AppLovin
Linkedin
October 23, 2025
xV is a multi-purpose framework for assessing the expected value of an idea, project, opportunity or, in this case, a listed stock. We have seen. it applied to sales opportunities, to life decisions and many other, unexpected use cases.

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Tags: AI, Finance, Innovation

When $1 Buys Less Than $1 of Value
Linkedin
October 16, 2025
Following the launch of xV: The System to Align Innovation, Strategy & Value Creation, we will focus over the next few editions of Ideas for a Better World to dig deeper into some of the key frameworks and concepts from the book.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Finance, Innovation

One third of global revenue will flow through ecosystems by 2030: Make yours deliver
Linkedin
October 09, 2025
Innovation at scale is an ecosystem challenge. The biggest problems cross firm and sector boundaries, depend on shared data, and require permissions no single actor controls. By 2030, business ecosystems could account for roughly a third of the world’s revenue and an even larger share of profits according to McKinsey & Company. Leaders who treat ecosystems as systems to be designed, not as loose networks, are the ones turning ideas into adoption at pace.

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Tags: Ecosystems, Innovation

Benchmark the Real World: Humans and LLMs Go Head to Head
Linkedin
September 22, 2025
What happens when you stop playing with lab-controlled benchmarks and run a single, messy, industrial challenge under a shared rubric, then ask both humans and machines to compete, and to be judged by a human expert and two synthetic “agentic SME” evaluators?

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Tags: Generative AI, Innovation

The Coming Wave of Edge Computing
Linkedin
August 26, 2025
In 2008, few outside the research community had heard of “deep learning.” A handful of early adopters saw the wave coming, and transformed entire industries. Today, a similar shift is underway with edge computing. Analysts forecast that global edge spending will reach nearly $378 billion by 2028, and the organisations that prepare now will shape the next decade of innovation.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation

The End of an Era: Bye Bye AOL
Linkedin
August 14, 2025
kssshhh—beeeeeeep—trrrr-REEE. If that sound still lives somewhere behind your ribs, this one’s going to land. At the end of September 2025, AOL will switch off dial-up for good, an ending many of us quietly filed under “already happened,” like discovering your old video shop still rents DVDs. And yet here we are: the modem chorus that walked us into the web is taking its final bow, while, astonishingly, hundreds of thousands of people have kept dialling in from spare rooms that haven’t changed their ritual in decades.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology, Telecom

Photonics: The Beginning of the End for Electrical Engineering?
Linkedin
August 07, 2025
A few weeks ago, I came across an interesting post in r/innovation by Reddit user EggAdministrative510. Their claim was bold: electrical engineering is not evolving, it is being replaced.

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Tags: Emerging Technology, Innovation, Quantum Computing

Part 4: Advanced Considerations and Strategic Planning
Linkedin
July 31, 2025
Welcome to the final instalment of our series on early-stage business funding. Throughout the previous three parts, we've explored the fundamentals of funding structures, self-funding methods, non-dilutive capital sources, and the various forms of equity investment available to emerging companies. Now we turn our attention to advanced considerations that can significantly impact your funding strategy and ultimate outcomes.

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Tags: Emerging Technology, Engineering, Innovation

Part 3: Equity Financing and Control
Linkedin
July 24, 2025
Welcome to the third instalment of our series on early-stage business funding (ok, maybe the 4th given last week's bonus on Windsurf!). After exploring the fundamentals of funding structures, self-funding methods, and non-dilutive capital sources, we now turn our attention to perhaps the most discussed but often misunderstood aspect of startup financing: equity investment.

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Tags: Innovation, Venture Capital

1 Executive
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Wazoku
January 02, 2011
As a global leader in powering innovation ecosystems, Wazoku enables organisations to embed innovation into their everyday operations. Our Total Innovation framework democratises innovation, harnesses collective intelligence, and drives continuous improvement across entire ecosystems.

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Tags: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership

1 Professor
Visiting Professor Frontier Research, IP and Innovation
University of East London
June 01, 2026
Supporting leadership in IP Commercialisation, Spin-outs, Research development and Entrepreneurship..

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Tags: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership

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