Innovation Blog

Flawed strategies put business recovery at risk as recession ends

Friday, March 12, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: New Business Models | Tags: innovation, financial, recession, entrepreneur, research, car, economist, New Business Models, business models, Alysoun Stewart

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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?

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Roubles from rubble – Take your Russian by the hand

Monday, January 18, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories: Business | Tags: innovation, government, entrepreneur, google, Russia, Boris Berezovsky, London Evening Standard, Sergey Brin, Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Abramovitch, Japan

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.

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Hail the Chief – Jack Welch Injects Executive Education with Competitive Boost

Friday, July 10, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories: Education | Tags: innovation, media, financial, government, entrepreneur, university, car, india, talent

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.

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Healthcare Innovation – Resistance Is Futile

Friday, May 08, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories: Healthcare | Tags: innovation, entrepreneur, energy, science, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, nanotechnology

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.

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