Jul
27
COVID-19 pivot
Unmasking Truths In many ways COVID-19 unmasked some painful truths about existing …
Disruption
Jun
29
The crucial role innovation must play in the energy system
Innovation is vital to the energy system’s integration and operation design, and we …
Mar
10
Regulation of payment in the news media – fixing the negative externalities of disruptive innovation
Technology routinely outstrips society’s ability to deal with it. That’s partly beca…
Dec
10
Automation on speed
“Our world has changed. Our challenges are greater. Our fragilities have been expose…
Nov
26
What can Artificial Intelligence technology do and what to be mindful of?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has slowly begun to affect people’s lives by facilitati…
Oct
29
Nothing is more powerful than an idea that’s time has come
Speaking to Andrew Keen in 2016 for his book How to Fix the Future. Brewster Kahle, …
Oct
20
Thinking strategically
Strategy. We hear and use the term every day. Indeed it has become something of a st…
Oct
15
Service vs Buy vs Build
When was the last time you spent real notes and coins or spoke to a customer service…
Aug
27
The city of tomorrow, from dream to reality
What do people dream of today? The philosopher Walter Benjamin used to say that a so…
Aug
26
Abundance – The alternative aesthetic
By and large we humans are a compliant and gullible lot. We’re socialised into how a…
Jun
23
An office working revolution?
I started writing my last piece about physical environments at the end of last year …
May
12
You Never Can Tell!
My mother would come out with the quaintest of pronouncements. One favourite turn of…
Apr
29
How Long O Lord Will You Forget Me?
From the age of eight, I was a church chorister. Although I turned to Buddhism at th…
Mar
31
The Wisdom of Generations
Did you know that at the equator, the Earth spins at a fixed rate of around 1,000 mi…
Mar
19
Returning to Business-as-Usual
What lessons can be presented by unforeseen consequences? In our focus this week on …
Mar
2
Can large companies disrupt?And indeed, should they even try?
In a previous article I wrote about the recent loss of many well-known brands and wh…
Feb
19
How to reduce the risk of disruption (destruction)
Can anyone doubt that we are in an era of mass disruption? In recent months we have …
Feb
4
Why the ‘streaming wars’ aren’t anything of the sort…
As a number of recent articles have noted, Blockbuster went bust by itself, with a …
Oct
24
Telcos Second Chance
The dawn of a new technological revolution is upon us. 5G will impact our lives in m…
Aug
6
The Innovator’s PURPOSE
In the beginning was the word I was eight years old the first time I gave my first …