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Why Sustainability and Why Now?

15th July 2019 By Stephen A Kirk

As individuals, most business leaders buy into the concept that climate change is a real thing; and that the problems are man-made, and we need to change our behaviour to avert the worst consequences of it.   Yet, somehow, when it comes to setting this business strategy, this very real imperative can get lost behind the challenge of responding to immediate market […]

Filed Under: Articles, Home Page, Insight Articles Tagged With: carbon-neutral, Climate changes, CSR, disruptive tech, environmental, high growth business, productivity, Strategy, Sustainability

Why We All Need To Be Disruptive Leaders

3rd April 2019 By Stephen A Kirk

We live in a world of unparalleled change, much of it good (think of the benefits of mobile communications, the internet and advances in food production that have led to a steady reduction in global poverty), but alongside these benefits come real problems (from the changes needed to address climate change through to the more immediate struggle with cyber-security).  As leaders, we all know the dangers of ignoring the changes […]

Filed Under: 21st Century, Home Page, Insight Articles, Leadership Tagged With: Bureaucracy, disruptive, high growth business, innovation, leader, Leadership, Strategy, technology

“Nation Of Shopkeepers” – But can we be productive too?

21st November 2018 By Stephen A Kirk

The phrase a “nation of shopkeepers” is often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte and it’s generally assumed he used it in a negative sense.   In reality, there is very little evidence that Napoleon ever said this and, if he did, he would have probably been meant it positively; echoing Adam Smith who used the expression in “The Wealth Of Nations” to describe the extent to which trading […]

Filed Under: Home Page, Insight Articles Tagged With: brexit, british economy, business consultant, business strategy, business. the business show, disruptive, high growth business, high growth consultant, innovative, inspiration, productivity, profitability

Sustainability – Getting The Economics Right

1st November 2018 By Stephen A Kirk

“The trick is to get the economics right too” – The Economist magazine The past few weeks have been a real roller-coaster in terms of news about sustainability… It was only a few weeks ago that I had the pleasure of attending The Planet Mark Awards for sustainability at the Saddlers Wells theatre in London. […]

Filed Under: 21st Century, Articles, Home Page, Insight Articles Tagged With: certification, climate change, economics, Eden Project, ESG, Financial Times, global warming, Investors Chronicle, IPCC, Martin Wolf, planet, Sustainability, The Economist, Tim Smit, TPM, Turnkey Group, waste The Planet Mark

How to survive the data tsunami

17th November 2017 By Stephen A Kirk

A KEY tech challenge that firms like Google, Facebook and Amazon master superbly – but many fail to handle – are the problems brought by the sheer volume of modern data.  Only 50 years ago, most people’s lives were summed up by a tin box on top of the wardrobe into which they carefully tucked […]

Filed Under: 21st Century, Articles, Home Page, Insight Articles Tagged With: #cybersecurity, #dataleaks, #digitaldata, #expert, #humanthought, #ParadisePapers, #Rolodex, #Saatchi, analogue, digital, GDPR

How GDPR rules will prise away your customers

26th October 2017 By Stephen A Kirk

IF you rate customer data as merely ‘important’ to your firm you are probably just about to go out of business. That’s because new draconian EU regulations come into force on 25 May next year which completely reverse the power relationship between a customer and a firm. By now customer data should have already moved […]

Filed Under: 21st Century, Articles, Home Page, Insight Articles Tagged With: business, compliance, concierge, customers, data, delight, EU regulation, GDPR, May 2018 EU

A quantum leap in computing would turn our world upside down

13th October 2017 By Stephen A Kirk

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I’VE spent decades building tech businesses based on computer power – often in areas such as security and encryption. Until now all of the hardware has been what we call ‘classical computers’, that is machines that see everything in numbers made up of 0s and 1s.  This binary processing makes things easy for machines by […]

Filed Under: 21st Century, Articles, Home Page, Insight Articles Tagged With: Crispr-Cas9, gene-editing, google, IBM, IlyasKhan, NSA, quantum leap, quantumcomputing, snowden, technology

It’s time we augmented our human rationality – with robots and AI

22nd September 2017 By Stephen A Kirk

HUMAN beings used to be just a part of the natural world of Earth. In quite low numbers. We were a sort of clever chimpanzee – but with more space for reasoning and language. Our numbers grew and we did very well, even if our newly-grown cortex brain was hamstrung by the way evolution kept […]

Filed Under: 21st Century, Articles, Home Page, Insight Articles Tagged With: AI, Anthropocene, brain, chimpanzees, Cold War, Earth, evolution, Haber-Bosch, machinelearning, mammals, mankind, nuclear war, reptiles, robots

Disappearing jobs and our ‘lumpy’ future

6th September 2017 By Stephen A Kirk

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FOR the last few years all we have heard about is how many jobs are going to disappear as the robots take over. Oxford, Ernst & Young, McKinsey, the World Bank and the rest are all telling us that any repetitive job is vulnerable and about 30% of actual jobs across 60% of fields are […]

Filed Under: 21st Century, Articles, Home Page, Insight Articles Tagged With: 21st Century, artificial intelligence, change, disruptive technology, Elon Musk, health, productivity, robots

How data from Space satellites will change our world

22nd August 2017 By Stephen A Kirk

Space Satellite

Revolutions always turn things on their heads. That’s why they are called revolutions. It’s like this: we see something new happening – like the Space Age – and we imagine it will be all about rocket cars in which we can go shopping, a Space Academy for our kids, and a Star Trek quest to […]

Filed Under: 21st Century, Articles, Home Page, Insight Articles Tagged With: big data, data analysis, data visualisation, low earth orbit, satellite, space

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Steve Malkin from @ThePlanetMark recommends starting to measure your organisation’s carbon footprint today. Tony Wines from @TurnkeyGroupLtd recommends educating people around the subject of #ESG to help organisations take effective action. https://t.co/AB0JnjA1LE

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Steve Malkin from @ThePlanetMark explains that there are huge business opportunities on the journey towards #NetZero because companies will need to rethink their operations and shift #strategy substantially. https://t.co/NOxOHoU1cR

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