Peter Fisk’s Blog
Trends Kaleidoscope 2023 … exploring the most interesting ideas and inspirations for the year ahead … from perma-crisis to consequences, from meta-madness to moments of optimism.
January 1, 2023
If 2022 was the year of the perma-crisis, then 2023 will be the year of consequences. The world, and business specifically, needs to address the impacts of inflation as it becomes recession, the continued war in Ukraine, high food and fuel prices, the …
Reasons to be cheerful … our world may seem uncertain, difficult, fragile … but we’ve made incredible progress in human wellbeing and economic prosperity over the last 20 years:
December 12, 2022
“Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice” said Ann Landers, the American 1940s journalist. From the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan to the rise of Omicron, from stagflation to strained global supply chains, the mainstream media is all too eager to …
ChatGPT proves that AI has come of age … the brilliant and weird AI-based chatbot application from OpenAI that quite possibly knows everything.
December 9, 2022
Earlier this week I noticed #ChatGPT trending on social media. We’ve become used to tech crazes – a new gadget, a new business, sometimes just a Hyperloop-style video – that zooms into our collective conscience, particularly when AI is somehow involve …
Emotion by Design … “Never play it safe, play to win … Game face for greatness … Dare to be remembered” … Creative leadership lessons from Greg Hoffman’s life at Nike
December 7, 2022
Greg Hoffman spent a career helping Nike shape and build its brand around the world. For over 27 years, Greg held marketing, design, and innovation leadership roles at Nike, including time as the brand’s CMO. In his most recent role as Nike’s Vice Pres …
Sustainable innovation “Earthshot” winners … NotPla’s non-plastic packaging from London, 44.01’s natural carbon capture in Oman, and Mukuru’s cooking stoves in Kenya
December 5, 2022
As technology transforms almost every aspect of the way we live, work, relate to one another, can it also save the world? At present, we are using resources and ecosystem services as though we had 1.7 Earths and such an ecological overshoot is possible …
Innovation is an act of love … 3M and PepsiCo chief design officer Mauro Porcini explores human-centred design … “the power of people in love with people”
December 1, 2022
One of the biggest problems in innovation, in every industry and category, is that many designers, marketers, engineers, and scientists often invest vast financial, intellectual, and emotional resources, over months and months of research, processing, …
Defining Design … design is in everything – functional, artistic, distinctive – yet is one of the most intangible, difficult and misunderstood concepts.
November 29, 2022
Design is in everything – thoughtful, functional, artistic, distinctive – from the clothes we are standing in, to the keyboard we are typing on, the homes and offices we inhabit, to the natural habitat around us. Yet design is one of those difficult, m …
The Brand World Cup 2022 … audiences, sponsors, innovations and players brought together with a love of football … amidst the controversies of Qatar
November 21, 2022
Qatar’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup 2022 has certainly proved to be the most controversial in history – the murky bribery scandal that led to it being awarded, the $200 billion development of the infrastructure amidst the concern for migrant workers, …
Arabian Gamechangers … Anghami to Cafu, Chalhoub and CropOne, Neom to Noon, RedSea and Savola … the Middle East has become a hub of innovation
November 17, 2022
I spend significant time working with the leaders of companies across the Middle East. It is a vibrant region, driven by its young and ambitious consumers, entrepreneurs and governments. When arriving to deliver a keynote at the UAE Prime Ministers Off …
Inside SpaceX’s Starbase … and the 5 step development process which Elon Musk applies to rocket science, and Tesla too … clarify, simplify, optimise, accelerate, automate
November 15, 2022
How has SpaceX revolutionising its way to design, build and launch a rocket into space ? How does this technique also apply to Tesla? In a recent interview at SpaceX’s Starbase, its development location at Boca Chica in Texas, Elon Musk described the p …