by Laura-Jane Parker | Nov 24, 2016 | Capabilities, Events, Future of Work, Incubation, Organisational structures, Thoughts |
From the Etsy store owners, Upworkers, and Uber drivers of the gig economy to the thousands of start-ups taking their place on the starting blocks in the great race to start-up success every year, there’s no doubt that technology has enabled a new era beyond the...
by Livio Hughes | Apr 29, 2016 | Capabilities, Finance, Incubation, Professional Services, Research, Strategy |
Do insurers get FinTech? Coming at a time when, according to Gartner, “half of CEOs expect their industries to be substantially or unrecognizably transformed by digital”, the apparent lack of engagement with FinTech displayed by insurers in a recent...
by Lee Bryant | Feb 1, 2016 | Enterprise social platforms, ESN Adoption, Incubation, Organisational structures, Quantified Org, Strategy, Technology |
ESNs are now part of the furniture A basic form of social business collaboration is now an expected feature of the modern workplace, at least in terms of the prevalence of ESN platforms like IBM Connections, Jive and Sharepoint, or chat apps like Slack and Yammer....
by Lee Bryant | Jun 17, 2014 | Finance, Incubation, Organisational structures, Strategy, Thoughts |
Jill Lepore has produced an excellent, well-written and passionate refutation of Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation in the New Yorker; but I can’t help thinking the target of her piece is not just Christensen’s work, but also...
by Cerys Hearsey | Apr 9, 2014 | Events, Incubation |
Last Wednesday evening we hosted the Postshift Foundry launch event and we had a blast. We were excited and thrilled to see the count go all the way up to hundreds of guests – we couldn’t be sure how many of you would make it despite the RSVP! We were...
by Lee Bryant | Mar 21, 2014 | Events, Finance, Incubation, Integration, Organisational structures, Strategy |
The Hy Summit in Berlin was a great attempt to bring together the corporate world and the startup scene, with senior people from Bosch, Siemens, Axel Springer and other firms rubbing shoulders with some fantastic startups and European VCs. The atmosphere and...
