Tag archive for innovation

Combatting workplace loneliness with some essential humanity

Combatting workplace loneliness with some essential humanity

On 20th June, Radio 4’s Today Programme featured, in its Thought for the Day slot, a piece by the Reverend Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London. I must admit, if I’m not already in the commuter maelstrom, I tend to use TftD…

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Making good decisions about AI will depend on RI (real intelligence)

Making good decisions about AI will depend on RI (real intelligence)

Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be on everyone’s lips. If 2017 was a formative year for technological advancement in this sphere, 2018 has been billed by some observers as the beginning of full-scale implementation of AI in our lives. The recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2018,…

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Without shared commitment to marketing, CMO will remain the hottest seat in the C-suite

Without shared commitment to marketing, CMO will remain the hottest seat in the C-suite

The front cover of this month’s Marketing Week magazine poses the question ‘Do you have the anatomy of a leader?’ In this context, the focus is upon becoming a marketing leader and the publication has undertaken a new study, among over 600 marketers, to illuminate…

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Organisations seem permanently to be reorganising. It’s important to get this right

Organisations seem permanently to be reorganising. It’s important to get this right

In business if change is the new normal and the pace of change continues to increase, then the challenge to keep up, let alone flourish, places a heavy burden on leadership teams. A typical response to these difficulties appears to be a reorg (it even…

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Balancing innovation with basic human instinct

Balancing innovation with basic human instinct

For me, one of this year’s distinctive themes has been the fascinating tension between opportunities made available to us by relentless technological advances and how we respond in practice when some of these innovations meet our less sophisticated preferences or basic instincts. Last Sunday’s edition of…

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