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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

A quantum leap in computing would turn our world upside down

13th October 2017 By Stephen A Kirk

quantumcomputing, google, IBM, snowden, gene-editing, Crispr-Cas9, IlyasKhan, NSA

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

LPWAN and the democratisation of the IoT

7th June 2017 By Stephen A Kirk

Smart City Internet of Things IoT

Until recently, patchy cellular network coverage represented a significant barrier to the development and expansion of the internet of things (IoT), in remote areas especially. Innovative projects in the US would be at the mercy of Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility, while rollouts in France would be subject to the vagaries of Orange and SFR. […]

Filed Under: 21st Century, Articles, Home Page, Insight Articles Tagged With: internet of things, LPWAN, sensors, technology, wireless

Reducing risk: The irrational human mind

3rd May 2017 By Stephen A Kirk

Driver Risk

If you doubt we are heading into the future at extreme speed then consider for a moment the rate at which the world economy has increased over recorded history. To do this, sketch a graph of Humankind’s productive output, measured over the last 10,000 years, and see how it appears that there is nothing on […]

Filed Under: 21st Century, Articles, Home Page, Insight Articles Tagged With: decision making, disruption, existential risk, human mind, human reason, risk, technology

How can the UK’s world-leading education brand thrive post-Brexit? 

12th April 2017 By Stephen A Kirk

Global Education

If there’s one area where Britain leads the world, it’s higher education. Small in size compared to the ‘mighty’ USA, the UK usually has four entries (Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial and UCL) in the world’s top 15  universities. Take a look at the current Times Higher Education World University Rankings top 15: University of Oxford California […]

Filed Under: 21st Century, Articles, Home Page, Insight Articles Tagged With: globalisation, higher education, technology, university

Look after your analogue brain to thrive in the digital future

29th March 2017 By Stephen A Kirk

Wearables Smartphones Biohacking

It’s funny to watch busy crowds these days; full of ‘connected citizens’ walking badly along the pavement or through the concourse, heads down and eyes glued to a smartphone held in one or both hands. Whatever the internet, Google, WhatsApp, etc., have brought us, they haven’t done much for our grace and dignity when walking […]

Filed Under: 21st Century, Articles, Home Page, Insight Articles Tagged With: analogue, brain plasticity, digital, human senses, neuroscience, technology, wearables

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@ThePlanetMark: Last Week, we hosted our COP27 Business Debrief webinar alongside the @The_IoD to discuss the critical business-relevant outcomes from the UN #COP27 Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh. Missed the webinar? Catch up below https://t.co/YWq0qMNYe6

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@ems_connections: @CalikSelin invites you to UK-Turkey Green Trade event 6-8:30pm 13 July @nlclondon £40/£45 members/non Register https://t.co/RsTyABxO4R #london #trade #export #import #turkey #uk #greenenergy #energy @ems_andrew @StringerLamarre @vanessadalbusco @nickmjordan https://t.co/tw5wAq5vq7

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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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