Thursday, September 16, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business
Grant Thornton’s latest research report, Targeting growth: Challenges and opportunities for the UK Food and Beverage sector, http://www.grant-thornton.co.uk/thinking_blogs/publications/food_and_beverage_sector_surve.aspx reveals the state of play for UK businesses in this sector. Here are some of the key issues and findings…
Friday, June 25, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Healthcare,
Technology
| Tags: university,
economist,
Tufts University,
silicon,
Dr Rogers,
Nature Materials
Friday, June 04, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Media,
Technology
| Tags: technology,
financial,
Twitter,
iPhone,
Credit Card Reader,
Jack Dorsey,
Android,
Square
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has launched a mobile payment solution that allows anyone with an iPhone to take plastic
Friday, June 04, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: research,
Bill Gates,
eco,
Microsoft,
Clouds,
Greenhouse,
Engineering
In the marvelous playground that is the mind of Microsoft billionaire, Bill Gates, the world must look like a Mario Kart video game. Gates is funding research into machines to suck up ten tonnes of seawater every second and spray it upwards, seed vast banks of white clouds to reflect the Sun’s rays away from Earth.
Friday, April 09, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models,
Business,
Media
| Tags: media,
technology,
government,
business models,
Mark Henshaw,
Finance Bill,
Digital Economy Bill,
Landline tax,
Spotify
“The digital sector plays a vital role in the UK economy and the Government is attempting to acknowledge this via the
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
energy,
education,
healthcare,
Gordon Brown,
security,
collaborative innovation,
Saul Kaplan,
downing street
Friday, March 26, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: technology,
innovators,
Bill Gates,
economist,
eco,
nuclear,
travelling-wave reactor,
Nathan Myhrvold,
TerraPower
The Economist online runs a profile of formidable innovators involved in a phenomenal project.
Friday, March 26, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: research,
university,
engineering,
print
For around $200,000, a true spring bargain, you will soon be able to buy the first commercial 3D bio-printer for manufacturing human tissue and organs.
Friday, March 12, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models
| Tags: innovation,
recession,
entrepreneur,
research,
financial,
business models,
New Business Models,
car,
economist,
Alysoun Stewart
Nearly two thirds (63%) of UK businesses are hamstrung by their own business models and unprepared for the recovery according to new research from leading financial and business advisers, Grant Thornton.
How is your business responding to the recession?
Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models
| Tags: recession,
research,
financial,
strategy,
Board,
New Business Models,
Economist,
EIU,
M%A
Our research shows that most companies need to review, and possibly renew, their business models.
Here are some suggestions from our own experts on the areas that you might wish to table:
Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models
| Tags: strategy,
Wendy Hart,
economist,
Google,
Stephen Weatherseed,
Microsoft,
EIU,
Dominic Preston,
Will Oxley,
New Business Model
Read here what our Grant Thornton experts think about the weaknesses of business models used by UK businesses today.
Let us know what you think
Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models
| Tags: financial,
business models,
Wendy Hart,
New Business Models,
Lead Advisory Services
Business models - the challenges facing UK businesses today
Some of our experts give us their view ...
Monday, March 08, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: Design, Leaders, Jawbone, Headset, Audio Innovation, Wall Street Journal, apps
This is the coolest piece of innovation I’ve seen so far this year… the Jawbone device
Monday, March 08, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: market, patents, Acacia Research, design, Business Week, Rachael King, law
‘Pimp my patent’ might just be runner as an obscure digital TV channel – with exclusive membership for lawyers. Based on the USA’s cult car show ‘Pimp my ride’, patent attorneys would trawl databases for patents to buy, then sue companies who have infringed those patents. In financial innovation terms, it’s a sort of derivative market, nothing is actually made, just innovative deals made out of current legal frameworks. The presenter wouldn’t be a banker, it would be troll; where differences end and similarities begin?
Monday, March 08, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Environment
| Tags: Bloom, Energy, Wired, California, Domestic, Carbon, Market, Patents, Acacia Research, Design, Leaders, Jawbone, Headset, Audio Innovation, Vogue, Stylist, Streaming, Horizonal Innovation, Bill Gates,
This is the market-making story of the month. Bloom Energy unveiled an energy server which can provide 100 kilowatts of power by converting natural gas or other hydrocarbons into electricity, pretty much on demand.
Friday, February 12, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: links,
renewable energy,
energy,
engineering,
science,
car,
economist,
eco,
euronews
This is the year for green energy. All the main players have put there money where their mouths have been for years. We will see more and more serious, competitive, ambitious lifestyle products focused on green values. Electric cars have been a persisting favourite of this column, and finally our television screens are selling us real, cool, cheaper electric cars we can be smug to be seen in.
Friday, February 12, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
Business Week,
Mars
A Mars A Day, Helps You, Hmm… Make Money
“It was still a real skunkworks operation—we had one small printer, and we hand-bagged everything,” said Jim Cass, General Manager of Mars Direct. He told Business Week: “But the strategy was, ‘make a little, learn a little; make some more, learn some more.”
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: digital, video, knowledge, literacy, i-Pad, innovation, management, start-up
The Wall Street Journal hits the mark with and article on finding the next iPod, and why it so difficult to exploit hit products.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: digital, video, knowledge, literacy, i-Pad, innovation, management
Article of the week, by a hare’s breadth, is Ben McIntyre’s Fox or Hedgehog piece for The Times. Generously, for those who may have given up on reading in a digital age, Ben’s recorded a short video blog, so you can get the gist without all that grammar and words n’stuff.
Monday, January 18, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
entrepreneur,
government,
google,
Russia,
Japan,
Boris Berezovsky,
Sergey Brin,
Abramovitch,
Dmitry Medvedev,
London Evening Standard,
Putin
Russia is aspiring to be a global force for the innovative and ambitious
“The secret of politics?” said Bismark, “Make a good treaty with Russia.” Otto von Bismark, Prussian Prime Minister, founder and Chancellor of the German Empire, knew how to separate roubles from rubble. Today, more than 100 years after Bismark, the dead dog of communism has awakened as a proud lion. Russia ended 2008 with GDP growth of 5.6%, following 10 straight years of growth averaging seven per cent.
We commissioned The Economist Intelligence Unit to survey UK executives on how assumptions on business models have changed, and how companies are planning to adapt over the next 18 months.