The Airbus A380 is delivered – but will it deliver?
The long awaited monster passenger plane, the Airbus A380, is now ready for delivery. In fact, Air Singapore today took delivery of their first plane with much pomp and ceremony. Read about it here at the international airlines news, and read about the financial...
British kids showing what the new new things will be
I think the following report was originally from The Economist, 23 August 2007 edition: AT FIRST glance, the annual survey of the communications market by Ofcom, Britain's telecoms regulator, makes comforting reading for traditional-media executives looking for their...
British kids showing what the new new things will be
I think the following report was originally from The Economist, 23 August 2007 edition: AT FIRST glance, the annual survey of the communications market by Ofcom, Britain's telecoms regulator, makes comforting reading for traditional-media executives looking for their...
MP3 stethoscopes
Earlier this month, researchers at a medical conference on respiratory diseases in Stockholm, reported that MP3 players with built in microphones are better than traditional stethoscopes. In addition to picking up many respiratory noises better than the stethoscope,...
CO2 Neutral products are becoming “fashionable” but are new product launches enough to target the “ethical consumer”?
ibuyeco, a new eco-friendly car insurance scheme that offsets 100% of customers’ CO2 emissions for the duration of their policy, was launched in the UK at the end of April 2007. The company has just started a strong above the line advertising, including television...
CO2 Neutral products are becoming "fashionable" but are new product launches enough to target the "ethical consumer"?
ibuyeco, a new eco-friendly car insurance scheme that offsets 100% of customers’ CO2 emissions for the duration of their policy, was launched in the UK at the end of April 2007. The company has just started a strong above the line advertising, including television...
CO2 Neutral products are becoming “fashionable” but are new product launches enough to target the “ethical consumer”?
ibuyeco, a new eco-friendly car insurance scheme that offsets 100% of customers’ CO2 emissions for the duration of their policy, was launched in the UK at the end of April 2007. The company has just started a strong above the line advertising, including television...
CO2 Neutral products are becoming "fashionable" but are new product launches enough to target the "ethical consumer"?
ibuyeco, a new eco-friendly car insurance scheme that offsets 100% of customers’ CO2 emissions for the duration of their policy, was launched in the UK at the end of April 2007. The company has just started a strong above the line advertising, including television...
25 Trends That Will Change the Way You Do Business, Part II
This is Part II of a two part entry. Find the first entry here. I was sent this article recently. It seems to have a few Internet sources, but most reliably comes from the Workforce magazine/website (Subscribe ). From e-mail to health care, and from artificial...
25 Trends That Will Change the Way You Do Business, Part I
I was sent this article recently. It seems to have a few Internet sources, but most reliably comes from the Workforce magazine/website (Subscribe ). Its a long entry, so I have split it into two parts. The second part can be found here. From e-mail to health care, and...
25 Trends That Will Change the Way You Do Business, Part I
I was sent this article recently. It seems to have a few Internet sources, but most reliably comes from the Workforce magazine/website (Subscribe ). Its a long entry, so I have split it into two parts. The second part can be found here. From e-mail to health care, and...
Gap Between Rich And Poor Widens in the UK
Sky News reported on Tuesday that the gap between rich and poor in the UK has reached its highest level for more than 40 years. There has been a rise in the number of households living below the poverty line over the past 15 years. At the same time, households in...
Gap Between Rich And Poor Widens in the UK
Sky News reported on Tuesday that the gap between rich and poor in the UK has reached its highest level for more than 40 years. There has been a rise in the number of households living below the poverty line over the past 15 years. At the same time, households in...
Prince for Free
This Sunday, the Mail on Sunday newspaper in England will hand out free copies of Prince's (The artist previously known as Symbol, previously known as Prince, etc) new album, Planet Earth. The album was self produced by Prince, and the Mail on Sunday hopes to sell in...
Your Child and the Future: Work gets ready for Gen Y
I found a great article at the Teaching Moments website. It is meant to help parents (I think especially home schoolers) to know what employers will be like when their kids leave school and enter the job market. You can find the original here. Your Child and the...
War Games for Business
In the May 31, 2007 edition of The Economist, there was a great article on a topic one of our team, Raymond de Villiers, is doing post graduate studies on: the issue of using gaming techniques to assist business development. The full article is available here (may...
The FUTURIST forecasts for the next 25 years
Recently, members of the World Futures Society were asked to submit and vote on the top forecasts for the next 25 years. You can read the resulting summarised report here. Without any explanation or detail, here is the list in bullet format: Forecast #1: Hydrogen fuel...
Crowdsourcing – Getting Your Customers and Staff to develop new innovations for you
Crowdsourcing is a technique that progressive companies are using to translate the enthusiasm of their most highly-engaged customers into valuable marketing, branding, or product-development insight. Dean van Leeuwen, TomorrowToday's UK and European director, who has...
Prisoners of the past
The opening line of the best selling business book of all time is as succinct as it is true: "Good is the enemy of great". Jim Collins’ 2001 bestseller, "Good to Great" explains how most companies never become great because they are already good. They have become...
Get your daily Joost
Joost is the new internet TV concept being developed by highly successful entrepreneurs Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype which they sold to ebay for $2.6 billion cash! Joost pronounced 'juiced' is an interactive software for distributing TV...