Peter Fisk’s Blog
Circular running … On, the Swiss sportswear brand, has created a fully recyclable running shoe made from castor beans, that you can regenerate every 6 months
January 23, 2023
The global economy is only 7.2% circular, according to the new Circularity Gap Report 2023 just published by Deloitte. And it’s getting worse year on year, driven by rising material extraction and use. With a circular economy, we could fulfil people’s …
The Wellbeing Economy … thriving in a world that is fairer and greener for everyone … bringing together the UN’s SDGs, OECD’s Better Life Index, Doughnut Economics and more.
January 21, 2023
The Wellbeing Economy has been described in many forms. At its heart is economic progress that is good for everyone. Not just as derivatives, but as a deliberate construct. We make more money, because everyone benefits more. We make more money, because …
Disrupt the disruptors … Start-ups are the cool companies, scale-ups are the profitable. Yet it is corporates who have many more advantages
January 18, 2023
In the early 1960s, if you wanted a quality watch, you bought a Swiss one. Accuracy, craftsmanship and reputation had sustained Swiss watchmaking supremacy for over three centuries. Then came Seiko and Timex, Japanese innovators who used quartz technol …
Climate change is the biggest global risk to business and society, although the cost of living crisis might dominate short-term. How can you address both?
January 14, 2023
The new Global Risks Report 2023 by the World Economic Forum with Marsh McLennan is well worth a read, particularly as the world find itself as a cross-roads of so many challenges. Some have called the relentless waves of challenge, a “polycrisis” in t …
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, …