Innovation

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Goats, bugs, thrown laptops … all part of a unicorn hunt

BREWDOG CEO James Watt is on the hunt for the next unicorn — and he’ll be investing up to £5m of his own money...
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Spring Budget sets BV phones and email buzzing

Pundits and experts were quick off the mark to comment on Jeremy Hunt’s first offering... By HAL WILLIAMS BRITISH Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget has prompted...

Energy for the Masses: Raiders of the Lost Promise – The...

The vast amounts of energy released by splitting the atom has enabled scientists to produce both nuclear power and nuclear weapons, demonstrating that mankind’s...

Mohamed A El-Erian: Is the Perfect Storm Over for Markets?

Earlier this year, financial markets around the world were forced to navigate a perfect storm – a violent disruption fuelled by an unusual amalgamation...
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Many flavours of change: digital is the sweetest of all

As some of the mighty fall, others are on the rise — thanks to embracing ‘significant cultural transformation’ SINCE 2000, over 50 percent of Fortune...

The Power of Incremental Change and the Quest for Perfection

Toyota spends in excess of $10bn annually on automotive research and development. That pile of money buys the company incremental improvements in nearly all...

Jan Pronk: It Takes More than Good Intentions

The government of Sudan declared Jan Pronk persona non grata in October 2006, summoning the UN special envoy to pack his bags and leave...
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Converting page visitors into paying customers

By GRANT FARHALL ON AVERAGE, people spend 53 seconds on a product page — and Britain’s SMEs are grasping for ways to hold their attention. Research...
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People, technology, and other hybrid solutions

MANY organisations are failing to get the investment results that they had hoped for, partly because of peer pressure to transform where and how...
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Get on the bus! UK drive for carbon reduction starts up

BUSINESSES across the UK will be offered carbon-reduction workshops and practical net-zero advice until the end of COP26 in November. Workshops will be provided by...