Peter Fisk’s Blog
The Ministry of Common Sense … Martin Lindstrom on why it’s time to get rid of the red tape in business, to remove the silly rules and recover common sense
January 22, 2021
“How come every Zoom call lasts exactly 1 hour no matter how mundane the call is? And why did all the toilet-breaks disappear as Zoom became everyday work life in our bedrooms?” “Why has a simple action like buying office equipment turned into a 6-peop …
My new book is here … “Business Recoded: Have the courage to create a better future” … it’s time to reimagine your business
January 10, 2021
The old codes of business don’t work. It’s time to recode your business. My new book “Business Recoded” is just published, and available now with 20% discount. You can also download a free sample. This is my seventh book, not including those written co …
Markets Recoded … Tesla, Sea, Zoom, Pinduoduo are the top value creators in the pandemic … seizing the opportunities of global disruption to create the markets of the future
January 5, 2021
2020 was a year of turbulence so seismic in scale and rapid in impact that we are only starting to recognise the consequences. Every market has been shaken up, challenging the old models, and accelerating the new. It has seen a dramatic “recoding” of a …
Pinduoduo … the world’s largest “social commerce” platform … grew its market value 396% during 2020 to $216 billion
January 2, 2021
“Pin-duo-duo” translates as “together, more savings, more fun”. It is the world’s fastest growing technology platform, according to Gartner, seeking to create a shopping experience that is much more collaborative and fun, as well as giving consumers ac …
Business Kaleidoscope 2021: Curating the best of this year’s trend reports … as we slowly emerge from the pandemic, what happens this year will define the 21st century
January 1, 2021
Have you the courage to create a better future? What will shape your future? How will you ride the waves of change, be farsighted to turn disruption and discontinuities into innovation and impact? Some of the best ocean surf lies just along the coast f …
The Future of Real Estate … from smart cities to local communities, virtual work and intelligent wellbeing, doughnut environments and happy families
December 20, 2020
Homes are our personal cocoons, our places to relax and recover from the challenges of a fast and challenging world, to connect with family, to eat and sleep, to be ourselves. Yet the Covid-19 pandemic has also made homes our windows on the world, a pl …
The BioNTech Story … How Uğur Şahin championed the innovative mRNA platform to create a Covid-19 vaccine, and transform the future of medicine
December 17, 2020
An end to the Covid-19 nightmare of 2020 may be in sight, thanks to the passion and persistence of a Turkish-born migrant, who has championed an innovative approach to vaccine development, which he believes could transform the future of medicine. Uğur …
Accelerating the Future of Work … How Covid-19 has changed priorities, accelerated technologies, and our shift to new ways of working
December 14, 2020
How has the pandemic shaped the future of work? Covid-19 has accelerated many of the factors that were already shaping where and how we work. The new digitalisation of work practices are familiar to every one of us as we click on to our first Zoom call …
The Future of Learning Organisations … self-organising teams and self-tuning strategies, metaskills and superhumans
December 1, 2020
It’s 30 years ago since Peter Senge published his book The Fifth Discipline and coined the phrase “the learning organisation”. He described it as “a group of people working together collectively to enhance their capacities to create results they really …
Business Recoded … Hooi Ling Tan was studying at Harvard when she co-created Grab, the $10bn South East Asian super-app where she is known as “the plumber”
November 27, 2020
In an exclusive extract from my forthcoming book Business Recoded, meet one of the most inspiring business leaders, shaking up today’s world. She embraces the opportunities of relentless change, the power of disruptive technologies, and the courage to …