Utilising workplace in financial services The automobile had existed for 74 years before Swede Nils Bohlin invented the seatbelt. In 1959 the Volvo employee patented his invention and flew to…
By: Dr Peggie Rothe. Employees no longer work in merely a fast-changing world, but rather a VUCA world: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. A term created by the U.S. military to…
This issue’s provocateur is James Woudhuysen. Previously chief of worldwide market intelligence at Philips consumer electronics, now visiting professor in forecasting and innovation at London South Bank University, he is…
At 19:29 on 31st May 2009, Air France flight 477 departed Rio de Janeiro bound for Paris. The 228 passengers, aircrew and cabin crew on board the aircraft would never…
The NHS’s failed attempt to go digital. Data has the potential to be the lifeblood of the UK’s National Health Service. “One of the most important resources held by the…
The fog of war and the confusion of constant competition. Data is transforming warfare but what are the implications for commercial organisations now engaged in a war for talent? Major…
In Sydney, Australia, the multinational food and beverage company has designed a workplace that puts its people first. Developed by psychologist Abraham Maslow in 1943, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs posits…
Our sense of personal space is elastic, but are the anxieties imposed by modern working expanding the circumferences of our personal bubbles? Are you accommodating work, or driving it away?…
Can the workplace industry ever embrace evidence-based systems? In 2001, the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, USA, announced that a five-point checklist had virtually eradicated central line infections in intensive…
Human beings are complex and our work life is complex; our emotions relating to work, recognition, reward and control are complex; and so too is the culture that binds us…