Your favourite film was released when you were 15. The same goes for books. Games. Films. Well, statistically, anyway. It’s been found that, if you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember things like Biff from Back to the Future, but won’t remember last summer’s smash hit. Why? Because change scares us. Intuitively, we know that […]
Slow and steady doesn’t always win the race – in some cases, revolutionary thinking and dramatic change are required. Currently, we are seeing huge upheavals in the digital world, both in industry-wide technology “uprisings” such as edge computing and artificial intelligence and across countless internal digital transformation projects where revolutionary innovation is igniting in a […]
Prevailing wisdom holds that banks are officious and sluggish, while tech startups are quick and nimble. The two business models–and those who work within them–have little in common. Prevailing wisdom is wrong: in reality, the skills necessary to be successful in both spaces often overlap. Last year, after 15 years at Morgan Stanley, I made […]
The answer lies in spotting when a trend turns into a cultural shift. The saying goes that once you react to a trend it’s already too late. For businesses, where getting maximum bang for buck is the name of the game, detecting the next big thing in its infancy is critical. The clear downside to […]
What does ‘digital’ actually mean? How will your company cope with digital transformation? What happens to the people who can’t or won’t go digital? Are your leaders doing what digital leaders have to do? Are you personally ready, willing and able to go digital yourself? Michael Leckie, digital transformation leader and advisor to Leading Edge […]
Timothy J. O’Brien is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Wilsonart Engineered Surfaces, leading all aspects of the $1.4 billion, 5,000+ employee global enterprise. Below, Timothy tells us about Wilsonart’s roots, accomplishments and the impact that new technology has on the development of engineered surfacing solutions. What has been Wilsonart’s greatest achievement that […]
Visitors can feel the culture the moment they walk in the door to your offices. Worth £193 billion annually to the UK economy, face-to-face business remains king, so how can UK business owners make every visit to their organisation memorable for the right reasons? From the latest nature-inspired design techniques to smart technologies to deliver […]
Dan Turner, CEO of British cybersecurity firm Deep Secure, surveys the ever-growing list of successful attacks and asks why the cybersecurity industry has been getting it so wrong for so long. Unquantifiable Risk Some years ago, in a previous life, I had an experience that changed my view of cybersecurity forever. At the time, […]
Yuichi Ishizuka began his Canon career in 1981 with the Camera Division and has since served in a variety of roles, most recently as President & COO of Canon USA. He’s spent 33 years of his career in North America which has given him a unique perspective on the importance of Canon’s international business and […]
At its simplest level, the core purpose of the supply chain is to get the right amount of ‘stuff’ from one place to another at the right time, designed to transform raw materials into finished products for consumption as efficiently as possible. But while the theory may be simple enough, the reality is clearly far […]
Has the Effort to Retrain Workers and Attract Tech Savvy Talent made any Difference on Productivity? Mr Suresh M Lodha is one of India’s formidable business figures and is accredited with scaling businesses for sustained growth. He is the Chairman of the British Engineering company Western Thermal Group, a leading specialist engineer in thermal & […]
Ron Nersesian is the President and CEO of Keysight Technologies. Keysight provides world-class electronic measurement capabilities to accelerate the technology innovations that make the world more productive and a safer place to live. No other company offers the breadth and depth of measurement tools and expertise to meet the world’s critical requirements for electronic measurement. […]
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