Peter Fisk’s Blog
Use the future to build the present … 2022 Science Breakthrough Radar … by GESDA, the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator Foundation
November 11, 2022
We cannot predict the future, but we can anticipate it … Science and technology are moving faster than ever, raising fundamental questions for humanity: Who are we, as humans? How can we all live together? How can we ensure the well-being of humankin …
“Leaders of business. This is your wake-up call. You’ve been living on borrowed time” … What are the best new ideas to build a sustainable business, to address the climate crisis?
November 6, 2022
“Leaders of business. This is your wake-up call. You’ve been living on borrowed time. Raping the natural world of its resources, and leaving a toxic mess in its place. These weather patterns are not freaks, they are the world you have created. Blinding …
4 scenarios to address climate change … which is the most effective pathway for business and society to limit global warming to under 2°C?
November 6, 2022
The 2015 UN Paris Agreement commits countries to limit the global average temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and to aim for 1.5°C. Scientists have said crossing the 1.5°C threshold risks unleashing far more severe climate c …
Future Retail … What’s the future of shopping? … Jeff Johnson had the right idea, when he opened Nike’s first store in 1966 … and so did Tobi Lütke, with Shopify in the digital world
November 5, 2022
Jeff Johnson was Nike’s first-ever full-time employee. His task back in 1966, having joined Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman in the start-up sportswear business, was to create the company’s first store in Santa Monica. As Knight says in his great book “Sh …
For Tomorrow … how innovators across the planet are accelerating progress towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals
November 4, 2022
“For Tomorrow” celebrates and empowers people to share their creative sustainability solutions. It’s a place to connect with innovators, insights, resources, and inspiration to help build a better world for everyone. It is a new initiative to accelerat …
Work Recoded … rethinking why and how we work … progressive and enabling, fluid and inclusive, decentralised and social … ourselves, as teams, and organisations
November 4, 2022
Pandemic lockdown was a catalyst to rethink why and how we work – how we work personally, how we contribute to teams, how we work for and as organisations and ecosystems. Hybrid working, obviously – but also more flexible to fit with your life, more co …
Liquid Design … digital and physical interfaces are merging into one multi-media, multi-sensory experience … how could a “liquid” CX transform your market?
November 2, 2022
Walk into the new Amazon Style fashion store in Santa Monica and you are guided by your smartphone through a truly personal, interactive, realtime shopping experience – as good as an online experience, better because it is 3 dimensional, human and sens …
How they make money … Great visually-engaging financial analysis … making sense of revenue streams and profit structures of some of the largest companies
October 31, 2022
It’s not easy to understand corporate financials. The traditional metrics tend to hide what is really going on – the different sources of revenue, particularly as brands diversify into many types of services to complement their products – and then how …
“Unworking” … beyond the pandemic, beyond digital technologies, beyond hybrid working … it’s time to reimagine why and how we work … and reinvent the modern office
October 28, 2022
Over the past one hundred years, the office has been integral to the development of modern society. It has shaped the architecture of our cities, the behaviour of our organisations, and the everyday movements of millions of people. And then the global …
Leadership Recoded … Sam Altman and Bernard Arnault, Mary Barra and Jane Fraser, Piyush Gupta and Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella and Zhang Ruimin … 50 video stories of inspiring business leaders
October 24, 2022
What can we learn from today’s most inspiring business leaders? In bring together the best ideas, insights and innovative approaches to business, I wanted to explore the world’s most inspiring as well as innovative business leaders … leaders who rea …