Peter Fisk’s Blog
The $12 trillion sustainable business opportunity … how Cemex is using the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals as a framework for innovation and growth
July 9, 2020
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) create a structured framework for developing better business strategies and transforming markets. Achieving the 17 goals, agreed by all member states in 2015, would create a world that is compreh …
Free the human spirit … Gary Hamel’s new book “Humanocracy” explores how to create organisations as amazing as the people inside them
July 1, 2020
Gary Hamel is one of the world’s great business thinkers. Today the world is facing many challenges from Covid-19, reducing CO2 emissions, addressing income inequality, cleaning up the oceans, to overcoming political extremism. “In a world of unrelenti …
The RSA’s Future Change Framework … How can we use the recovery from Covid-19 to create real, lasting change?
July 1, 2020
Many people – from future-looking corporate leaders to business academics, hapless politicians and passionate social activists – have asked how can we use the recovery from Covid-19 to create real, lasting change? We have seen dramatic change during th …
Canva to Coupang, Ninja Van and Razer, Yanolja and Zilingo … How young Asian entrepreneurs are creating the next generation of business
July 1, 2020
Melanie Perkin’s Canva … She founded a unicorn by 30, now she’s taking on the tech giants Canva is a workplace collaboration platform, and one of the world’s most valuable female-led start-ups. It enables people to create graphics, presentations, vi …
Tesla becomes the world’s most valuable automotive company … although it’s really a sustainable energy business
July 1, 2020
Tesla is now the world’s most valuable automotive company, with a market cap of $209 billion on 1 July, just ahead of Toyota. It is now worth more than the combined value of the top four European companies – Volkswagen, Daimler, BMW and Ferrari. A deca …
Time to “RE/CODE” your business … Inspiration from 80 global leaders – Jay Sean to Jim Snabe, Paul Romer to Bertrand Piccard – at The Recovery Summit
June 30, 2020
“There has never been a moment quite like this” said Cosimo Turroturro, as he introduced The Recovery Summit, an ambitious thought leadership ultra-marathon, a 40 hour webinar over 5 days. With a global audience of almost 10,000 people, inspired by 80 …
Innovation Failures of the 21st Century … Amazon Fire and Google Allo, Mercedes Home Battery and Nike FuelBand … without failure, we don’t learn how to be better
June 17, 2020
Innovation failures are nothing new – we remember back, almost fondly, to the DeLorean car and New Coke, Sony’s Betamax rival to VHS and Philip’s Laser Disc, Persil Power detergent and Harley Davidson fragrances, Bic disposable underwear to Crystal Pep …
Emotional Agility …. most of us are feeling anxious, frustrated and uncertain right now … Do you have an agile mindset, to cope with unexpected situations, and a changing world?
June 12, 2020
Most of us are feeling somewhat anxious, frustrated and uncertain right now. For 12 weeks or more we’ve been living in different states of enforced lockdown as the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps across our world, reminding us of our global connectedness and …
The Great Reset … Why the Covid-19 pandemic is a unique opportunity to reimagine our future, to recode our business, to reinspire humanity for a better world
June 3, 2020
Thanks to a small bit of contagious RNA we are all now unwilling participants in a seismic experiment that is shaking the foundations of society, technology, economics, healthcare and more. Dan Pink wonders if it’s a message from the future. Klaus Schw …
Robots take control in new “low-touch” economy … Esben Østergaard creates world’s first fully-automated Covid-19 swab-testing robot in Odense, Denmark
May 29, 2020
At the age of 4, Esben Østergaard built his first Lego robot. Four decades later the Danish entrepreneur has developed and sold two robotics companies for €560 million and is an early pioneer of the “cobot”, which are nimble and flexible collaborative …