by Guy | Apr 12, 2013 | Business - General, Cities, Economy, Lifestyle, Productivity, Strategy, Technology, Working From Home
The previous post showed how technology is enabling location independence for the workforce for the first time since the Industrial Revolution created the need for urbanisation. Smart devices, such as smartphones and powerful tablets, are providing people with the...
by Guy | Apr 5, 2013 | Business - General, Cities, Lifestyle, Productivity, Strategy, Technology, Working From Home
There’s a revolution under way that is gaining momentum, and yet doing so in a way that although we scarcely notice the changes from day-to-day, when we look back a few years we can see they’re enormous. This revolution is in the way we work and live. Ten years ago,...
by Guy | Dec 5, 2012 | Board & Governance, Board of Directors, Business - General, Economy, Europe, Productivity, Recession, Welfare State
There’s an interesting scuffle about tax going on in the British media at the moment – and it seems that the Government is in danger of being responsible for companies contravening the Companies Act which was rewritten in 2006. This scuffle started a few months...
by Guy | Oct 22, 2012 | Business - General, Customer Service, Productivity, Strategy, Technology
I’ve just read a fascinating article in The Times of 22nd October which starts out by saying, “The world is ‘drowning in data’ and computing companies are running out of space to store it…” Some of the interesting numbers that came out of the article: By 2016,...
by Guy | Aug 11, 2012 | Business - General, Lifestyle, Recession, Uncategorized, Upturn
An interesting phenomenon has hit Britain over the past 2 weeks – the traditional British reserve has been replaced with enthusiasm and a sense of national pride I’ve not seen here before. What’s more – the normally omnipresent negativity about almost everything (not...
by Guy | Dec 17, 2011 | Banking, Business - General, Economy, Europe, Investing, Recession
There’s been an enormous amount of ink used on the ‘veto’ that David Cameron used in Europe last week, with warnings of dire consequences if the UK doesn’t help to support the Euro. Frankly, I don’t understand this as the Euro has been...
