When we talk with clients about the challenges facing their industry we almost always encounter a brick wall. There are always reasons why change cannot be accommodated. Or attempted. The people in some businesses and industries still believe that digital disruption...
Some business leaders fear the word “disruption” – but other business leaders meet the word and its impact head-on. GE’s Chief Digital Officer, Ganesh Bell, is one of the latter. Over the last couple of years, Ganesh has led the digital transformation of what he calls...
Working in a startup is like working in dog years. The accelerated learning that takes place crams seven years worth of life into the span of a single year. So that startup that you ran for three years effectively exposes you experiences that would usually take...
The Consumer Electronics Show in the US is a big deal. Attracting the best and brightest in startups, technology and customer facing innovation, what is shown at CES sets the benchmark for much of what follows for the year ahead. The challenge, of course, is that...
2015 was an unexpected whirlwind for those living in – or close to – the startup and innovation sector. Apart from the moving and shaking that characterises a loose grouping of high growth businesses chasing various models of success (funding, IPO, customers, the next...
At the beginning of every year, we turn our attention to the future. We look for the trends and the opportunities, eager to be part of a great wave of success. As a result, we pore through research and trend reports, consume vast quantities of data and often arrive at...
