Peter Fisk’s Blog

Positive Impact … Embracing a new value system for business, to deliver long-term, sustainable value for all stakeholders … Great. So how?

April 14, 2023

Yancey Strickler, the Kickstarter founder, makes a passionate argument that we can, and must, redefine the measures of success if we want a stronger society than the one we have today. He describes today’s business world as one of “crumbling infrastruc …

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Steel produces 7% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions … H2 Green Steel, using hydrogen technology, is set to reinvent how steel is made, and reduce carbon impacts.

March 31, 2023

Boden, a small military town in northern Sweden is set to become Europe’s centre for green steel, with a new steel plant, 900 km north of Stockholm. Steel is usually made in a process that starts with blast furnaces. Fed with coking coal and iron ore, …

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Reinventing beer at Neuzeller Klosterbräu … German brewery creates powder to just add water, reducing carbon emissions by 90%

March 29, 2023

Neuzeller Klosterbräu, a German brewery, is revolutionising the future of beer. The Brandenburg company has created a powdered lager that mimics the look and taste of beer on tap, just by adding water. Simply add two spoons of powder into a glass, addi …

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ZEROe … Airbus’ bold vision to create a zero-emission future for the world of air travel … Hydrogen fuel cells, Shark fin wings, and more.

March 23, 2023

Airbus is today the world’s largest manufacturer of airport – and seeks to shape the future, as a global pioneer in the aerospace – operating in the commercial aircraft, helicopters, defence and space sectors. The Toulouse-based organisation has always …

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Thriving on Overload … the defining capability for success today is the ability to thrive on a superabundance of information … here are 5 powers for success in a world of exponential information

March 19, 2023

Massive information overload is the defining feature of our age. The incessant deluge threatens to drown us, yet within its excess lies almost everything of value today. The capacity to thrive on limitless information is now the single most important c …

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Enabling people to achieve more … Brands used to be marks of ownership, but today are built around the passions of like-minded consumers, enabling them to achieve more, and multiply their impact.

March 18, 2023

Cycling is a sport of connoisseurs. They love their coffee, in France they love their pastis, and they love their bikes and gear. Riding at the heart of a Sunday morning peloton is as much social as physical, and so Rapha designed to create premium cyc …

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Corporate Pioneers … while most leaders play politics, some leaders step up to become genuine pioneers … to explore and shape the next frontiers

March 6, 2023

Download Peter Fisk’s keynote “Pioneers and Transformers” for Airbus, March 2023.   I work with many organisations – typically their boards and executive teams – to help them explore, define and shape their futures. A typical project might start with ” …

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The Paradoxes of Innovation … … the paradox of ideas, bringing together two opposing concepts … the paradox of process, looking beyond the machine

March 6, 2023

Thomas Edison said “I have not failed 10,000 times, I’ve successfully found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” In writing my latest book, Business Recoded, I’ve explored many fascinating stories of our changing business world, discovered some incredible org …

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The Physics of Noseriding … “one of surfing’s peak moments: part fluid dynamics, part magic” … Patagonia gets passionate about surfing’s fluid dance

March 5, 2023

The noseride is one of surfing’s peak moments: part fluid dynamics, part magic. But how does noseriding actually work? What makes this suspension between sea and sky even possible? Patagonia’s short movie “The Physics of Noseriding” explores the questi …

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The Human Algorithm … a digital anthropological view of how technology is changing the way in which we engage with each other, business, and the world

March 2, 2023

ChatGPT has dominated the tech headlines of recent months. The OpenAI interface has become a symbol of progress for the ways in which knowledge is evolving, and challenging human minds. Of course AI is all around us. Wake up to check your health on you …

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