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 | Total Views: 4391
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
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 | Total Views: 4046
The Economist online runs a profile of formidable innovators involved in a phenomenal project.
Wednesday, December 09, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Environment
| Tags: innovation,
links,
europe,
Brazil,
construction,
Brasilia,
Climate Change Summit,
Los Angeles,
Al Gore | Total Views: 3988
Brasilia was an ambitious new beginning in 1956, emerging from two intersecting lines in the red dust of Brazil’s interior. Given the opportunity, most politicians would role up a handful of their nation’s cities and sling them in the nearest bin - it would be a yellow recycling bin, obviously, with toxic signs and syringe sharps warnings.
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 | Total Views: 3924
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.
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 | Total Views: 3873
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?
Friday, February 12, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: links,
renewable energy,
energy,
engineering,
science,
car,
economist,
eco,
euronews | Total Views: 3804
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, July 10, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Education
| Tags: innovation,
media,
entrepreneur,
financial,
government,
talent,
university,
car,
india | Total Views: 3756
Neutron Jack is back. Jack Welch, General Electric’s supercharged former CEO, is putting formidable wealth right next to his informative mouth, launching a new online MBA which he claims will compete with bricks and mortar programmes.
Friday, May 01, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business,
Education,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
research,
financial,
university,
europe,
intellectual property,
economist,
patent,
entrepreneurial,
capitalism | Total Views: 3736
Friday, March 26, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: research,
university,
engineering,
print | Total Views: 3706
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.
Thursday, May 21, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Media,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
media,
technology,
digital | Total Views: 3617
Alex Johns, MD of iblink left his job with Siemens 3 years to start up iblink which filled the niche created by technologists who knew a lot about technology and less about marketing and marketeers who knew a lot about marketing but little about technology. Today iblink is an award winning digital marketing business with a number of blue chips clients such as Titan, Superdrug, Bluewater, P&G and Unilever.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
jackie hunter,
pharmaceutical | Total Views: 3598
Jackie Hunter is the Senior-Vice President and Head of External Science Development at
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Environment,
Media,
Technology
| Tags: links,
Twitter,
climate change,
TED,
robots,
photography | Total Views: 3529
This month, the Grant Thornton team has been reading about robots with smiling faces, documenting climate change using time-lapse photography and ‘tweeting’ for a taxi home…
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: digital, video, knowledge, literacy, i-Pad, innovation, management, start-up | Total Views: 3524
The Wall Street Journal hits the mark with and article on finding the next iPod, and why it so difficult to exploit hit products.
Friday, May 08, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Healthcare
| Tags: innovation,
entrepreneur,
energy,
healthcare,
science,
pharmaceuticals,
nanotechnology | Total Views: 3460
Defence of our nation’s health persists as a matter of priority. It’s an irrational position to take, for ultimately the nation cannot preserve our health, we all expire, a bit like identity cards. Our expectation, is that one day we won’t shuffle off this mortal coil, but just go for a refit, an upgrade, popping into Me-Me World at lunch to get memory chips expanded and a couple of heart valves replaced.
Monday, June 08, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
energy,
innovators,
science,
economist,
india | Total Views: 3440
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman of food giant Nestlé, told the Economist’s ‘The World in 2009’: “under present conditions… we will run out of water long before we run out of fuel”.
Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models
| Tags: financial,
business models,
Wendy Hart,
New Business Models,
Lead Advisory Services | Total Views: 3412
Business models - the challenges facing UK businesses today
Some of our experts give us their view ...
Thursday, August 06, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Environment
| Tags: innovation,
statistics,
numbers | Total Views: 3412
Are you a fan of numbers? Or do you prefer to leave all that to your accountant?
Tuesday, March 03, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: sir roger bone,
open innovation,
innovation island,
boeing uk,
imperial college business school,
innovation nation,
newton,
5-d modelling,
professor david gann,
darwin | Total Views: 3395
A new innovation eco-system is needed for Britain - that is the message delivered by guest panellists at the launch of Innovation Island, an Economist conference, sponsored by Grant Thornton.
Distinguished panellists, from industrial and research disciplines throughout the United Kingdom, gathered to discuss whether the UK remains an innovative nation. The answer is ‘Yes’, Britain is building on a strong innovative heritage, but it needs to address some persisting weaknesses if it is to deliver economic growth and a prosperous future.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
research,
financial,
government,
energy,
university,
innovators,
science,
car | Total Views: 3390
One per cent of the energy we burn driving a car is used to move the driver. In one hundred years of automotive innovation, mankind has fought financial and military battles over oil reserves; only to announce that 99% of our effort was to shift a hunk of metal. Maybe we should have kept the horses.
Monday, March 08, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: market, patents, Acacia Research, design, Business Week, Rachael King, law | Total Views: 3373
‘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?
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.