A new report by indexB for Allianz Insurance published this week argues that thinking about risk management is surprisingly conducive to fostering innovation and growth. The authors argue that the core strategic processes involved in each of these activities are not only very similar but increasingly flip sides of the same coin. This week we [...]
March 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Companies find hot meals engage employees more than hot desks.
The past couple of weeks have seen two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent female executives much in the news. Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, can hardly complain about the publicity she has attracted since she is promoting a book, “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead”, which has as its central [...]
November 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
2012 in perspective: The year the world rediscovered its longitude.
Attributing significance to individual years is a chroniclers curse, yet there are many reasons for thinking 2012 may come to be seen as a watershed in the way that the business world functions, especially in relation to its digital environment. For the first time the platforms, applications and devices that support digital life are no [...]
October 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Why thinking about industrial strategy is coming back into fashion
There has been much discussion recently about why countries may need an industrial strategy to assist their economic recovery. In fact governments picking commercial winners has even been compared to the way countries select their sporting winners as many did at this year’s Olympic Games. However Colm Reilly a government and public sector expert at PA Consulting [...]
October 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Why the idea of a national industrial strategy is coming back into fashion.
There has been much discussion recently about why countries may need an industrial strategy to assist their economic recovery. In fact governments picking commercial winners has even been compared to the way countries select their sporting winners as many did at this year’s Olympic Games. However Colm Reilly a government and public sector expert at PA [...]
September 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
If governments can pick sporting winners why can’t they pick business winners?
As the summer of 2012 demonstrated, governments are quite capable of picking sporting winners, so why not extend this ability to picking winning businesses. Yet in the search for a “legacy” of the 2012 Olympic Games, one area seems to have been overlooked – industry. We all know how the building of the venues provided [...]
July 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Using social networks to do business goes beyond the range of the big 4.
For all the attention attracted by the major social network companies, the practice of using social networks to do business is still in its infancy. Though the big 4 networks may appear to have some type of monopoly for linking and connecting people it’s clear that the value of networking goes well beyond this need. [...]
May 17, 2012 by 1 Comment
The future of the thought leadership business.
The term ‘thought leader’ seems as much in vogue today as ‘digital media expert’ was yesterday and has quickly become a new paradigm for how businesses market themselves. To separate the hype from the substance this post looks back at the origins of the thought leadership industry and looks forward to some of the issues [...]
March 3, 2012 by 1 Comment
How to create a nation of start-ups: the inside guide to Israel’s economic miracle.
Thanks to the ongoing hostilities with its Middle East neighbours, Israel is one of the most reported on countries in the world. Yet there is an extraordinary economic miracle taking place amid the turmoil in the region that has drawn far less media attention until recently when a new book revealed a largely untold story. [...]
