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How Organisations Create Intrinsic Value

Value creation is the essence of business. Value is what attracts and keeps customers. Value is what attracts and retains employees. It’s also what attracts and maintains relationships with investors, suppliers, distributors and the wide range of other stakeholders who are critical to the firm’s long-term success. A business that does not create value will eventually […]
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Business Structures Have Forever Changed – There’s No Going Back

As more and more countries extend their vaccination campaigns, with the US authorities saying that 99.992% of fully inoculated people can resist Covid, the de-escalation process, the supposed return to normality after an 18-month hiatus, is underway. But what does normality mean? Within a few weeks of the first lockdowns in March 2020, forced to work […]
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The End Of Internet Explorer & The Future Of Microsoft

As a user first of Mosaic and then of Netscape, I was not alone in seeing the arrival of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer back in 1995 as an attempt by a company that had completely underestimated the importance of the internet, that had seen the emergence of the Netscape phenomenon, to use the dirty trick of bundling it into the operating […]
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The Case For Bad Ideas

I was speaking to a friend this morning about the alarming increase in peanut allergies in certain populations, chiefly the overdeveloped West. For example, they have increased fivefold in the UK in just the past 20 years. The latest science behind the cause stipulates that we are just too clean; and that our avoidance of potential threats — a legume, in this […]
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Amazon Is Ready To Take Over The Post-Pandemic World

Amazon this week announced it is taking on 75,000 new workers in the United States and 10,000 in the United Kingdom, precisely at a time when much of the world is beginning to emerge from the pandemic and when many companies have announced cutbacks or even closures, making it one of the main drivers for economic recovery. The […]
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Elon Musk’s Economies Of Scale Has Been Helping SpaceX Win The Private Space Race

On April 17, when NASA revealed the result of its competition to develop a spacecraft to take astronauts back to the moon, it was clear that Elon Musk’s strategy of leveraging economies of scale had passed yet another milestone. The competition pitted three proposals: Dynetics, a regular supplier to the Department of Defense; Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ aerospace […]
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Are Lockdowns Worth It?

2020 has been the year that vague epidemiological theories that were mostly of interest to us nerds suddenly became mainstream. Herd immunity, which previously was mostly the purview of epidemiologists in mouldering public health departments, suddenly became worthy of mainstream discussion and endless debate. Infection fatality rates, which were previously restricted mostly to infectious diseases conferences, have suddenly […]

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Are Lockdowns Worth It?

2020 has been the year that vague epidemiological theories that were mostly of interest to us nerds suddenly became mainstream. Herd immunity, which previously was mostly the purview of epidemiologists in mouldering public health departments, suddenly became worthy of mainstream discussion and endless debate. Infection fatality rates, which were previously restricted mostly to infectious diseases conferences, have suddenly […]
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  3. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  4. STARTUPS
  5. STRATEGY
  6. TECHNOLOGY

Strategy In A Post-Digital World

For decades, the dominant view of strategy was based on Michael Porter’s ideas about competitive advantage. In essence, he argued that the key to long-term success was to dominate the value chain by maximizing bargaining power among suppliers, customers, new market entrants and substitute goods. Yet digital technology blew apart old assumptions. As technology cycles began to outpace […]

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Uma Panch – Founder Uma Panch Business & Personal Coaching

This article was originally published here: Uma Panch – Founder Uma Panch Business & Personal Coaching Self described ‘mindset alchemist’ Uma Panch is committed to inspiring others to join her quest to become extraordinary. What’s your story? I am a life enthusiast in search of my “Extraordinary”. I am on a quest to become the […]
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Tracy Lamourie – Founder of Managing Director Lamourie Media

This article was originally published here: Tracy Lamourie – Founder of Managing Director Lamourie Media Campaigning for causes she believes in has given Tracy Lamourie skills she now shares with others to help them be heard. What’s your story? I am a high profile international award winning publicist,  the Founder and Managing Director of Lamourie […]
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Charu Mehrotra – Founder of Online Magazine Womenlines.com

This article was originally published here: Charu Mehrotra – Founder of Online Magazine Womenlines.com A self-described serial entrepreneur, Charu Mehrotra founded and e-magazine dedicated to helping and promoting women. What’s your story? A serial entrepreneur and an unshakable optimist I am the founder of an e-magazine https://www.womenlines.com (in the top 50 Women’s online magazines to […]
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Julie Griggs & Danielle Dietzek – Co-Founders of Fourplay Social

This article was originally published here: Julie Griggs & Danielle Dietzek – Co-Founders of Fourplay Social Both Julie Griggs and Danielle Dietzek were medical professionals when they decided to develop a dating app with a difference, and judging by their users response, it was about time! What’s your story? Julie Griggs (Co-Founder): To be honest, […]

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Women on Top in Tech – Angela Wu, Founder Member at Agenovir Corporation & Assistant Professor at HKUST

(Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) I met Angela Wu, Founding Member at Agenovir Corporation at EmTech, Singapore 14-15 February. EmTech is the annual global emerging technologies conference hosted by MIT Technology Review, […]
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Charu Mehrotra – Founder of Online Magazine Womenlines.com

This article was originally published here: Charu Mehrotra – Founder of Online Magazine Womenlines.com A self-described serial entrepreneur, Charu Mehrotra founded and e-magazine dedicated to helping and promoting women. What’s your story? A serial entrepreneur and an unshakable optimist I am the founder of an e-magazine https://www.womenlines.com (in the top 50 Women’s online magazines to […]

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