On sustainability and profit
What determines the sustainability of your commercial enterprise? What makes it profitable? An answer is in the balance of investment into innovation and production, writes John Egan. You are a product manager…
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Space junk: too fast, too furious
The European Space Agency estimates there are 750,000 objects larger than 1 cm orbiting Earth. The risks from collisions are growing as the outer atmosphere becomes increasingly crowded, reports James Fitzgerald. Most…
Tide of protectionism makes economic life precarious
It is going to be a hard road to haul to achieve the great Britain of Brexit dreams, writes Geoff Kitney. In all the discussion about what sort of Britain will emerge…
Productivity blues
A slew of new United Kingdom productivity statistics were yesterday released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The headlines tell a familiar story, but dig deeper and the UK appears a…
Le Grand Debat
With 19 days to go before the first round of the French presidential election, last night a Grand Debat – that lasted almost four hours – was held for all 11 candidates…
The energy dissipative enterprise
Here we look into the commercial activities of an enterprise through a prism of energy dissipation to understand the conversion of investment into income. The enterprise model Energy dissipative systems are everywhere…
Between the Rock and a hard Brexit
Murray Ritchie explains why Scottish nationalists are smiling. Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon could be forgiven if she let out a shout of delight when the Spanish let it be known they…
Apprenticeships must be more than a numbers game
Apprenticeship starts are the means to an end, not an end in themselves, a new report says as it calls on the government to place greater emphasis on outcomes such as secure…
Today the UK is in a state of consistency
In the week leading up to delivery of the Brexit divorce letter, public opinion in the UK appeared to be a strange mix of short-term pragmatism and long-term pessimism, writes John Egan….
Work as a vector – in a tale of two carbons
In work we are all combinations of the artist and the photocopier. Here we begin to uncouple the two. Genius, Thomas Edison famously remarked, is one per cent inspiration and 99 per…