I have just finished a call with Vodafone to renew my mobile phone subscription. The gentleman on the other line was very courteous. Maybe more…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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My friend David Boyle recently wrote about the re-birth of liberal economics. In particular, the renewed attention on tackling monopoly power. As he mentioned, this trend has…
Last month, I spent a day hi yu at a public-sector shared services conference in Manchester. The experience moved me to write. I hope it…
The pension implications of the collapse of Carillion are scandalous – as well as tragic for the people involved. Senior management used cash, debt and asset…
In our review of corporate governance last year, we took the view that the UK should move from its primary focus on ‘creating shareholder value’ to a…
A few weeks ago I received a mass email from Lufthansa. They were about to change the miles awards for their frequent flyer programme. They…
The debate has moved on, and “Whitehall sources” confirm it. No longer are government ministers talking about the battle between “hard and soft Brexit” –…
I have just spent a couple of days in Paris. It was raining much of the time. But Paris is still Paris. In my meetings here, the contrast with…
Europe is, once again, being left behind. The latest frontier in technology development is Artificial Intelligence. Two current trends should worry Europeans. The first is…
Some years ago, I was in the room when a consulting firm was pitching a mega-project to the president of research and development at a…
Vinay Gupta is a fascinating man, graduating from developing simple yurts to support refugees anywhere to working out the deeper implications of bitcoin, blockchain technologies…
After Milton Friedman famously proposed that the sole purpose of business enterprises should be to maximise shareholder value in an article in the New York…