Given the current COVID-19 lock down, isolation and restrictions, "see you on the other side" is an increasingly used sign-off, in both personal and professi...

COVID-19: How to think the unthinkable and prepare a robust response

Guest blog from Stratforma Network Partner, Simon Commander. History is littered with autocrats whose time may have passed but whose ability to exit has been...

The personal data economy and why we still have so much to learn "Data is the new oil", or so we are told with increasing monotony. My own recent experience ...

Making sense of the uncertainties that face us all... You may have missed it, due to the all-consuming political turmoil that has engulfed the "old world", b...

So suggested serial entrepreneur Steve Blank, at the Imperial College Business School inaugural symposium on corporate and industrial accelerators. Hosted in...

Interview with Julian Birkinshaw of London Business School I have been very fortunate over the years to collaborate with London Business School's Julian Birk...

By Simon Commander, Managing Partner, Altura Partners Despite mounting costs and risks, relatively few politicians have made a forthright case for Brexit to ...

...Is the underlying question that was asked at the launch of "What's Next?" at The Royal Institution last week. The book, edited by British Iraqi theoretica...

By Simon Commander, Stratforma Network Partner and Managing Partner of Altura Partners September 2017 Issues Immigration vitally affects the way in which Bre...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published their review of the UK asset management industry last week, advocating "radical reform" of the £7tn sector. T...

Key Challenges to Adopting the Next Generation of Driving Technology Hardly a week goes by without a new exciting announcement in the world of driving techno...

I have just finished re-reading Richard Watson's latest book, Digital vs. Human, how we'll live, love and think in the future. I should declare my interests ...

I was kindly invited to the launch of a new "global initiative" on Friday afternoon at the Finsbury Square offices of Grant Thornton, in London. Led by Patri...

In a timely (but I suspect unintentional) nod to the challenges currently faced by the Greek economy, a recent report from the McKinsey Global Institute has ...

... and still come back for more I am supremely impressed with my friend and former Morgan Stanley colleague Caroline Arnold, not only a committed wife and m...

With more bad news to come... Just in case you hadn't noticed (!), the headlines are full of the West Africa-originated Ebola crisis. Dr. Thomas Frieden, hea...

Should I challenge my own futures training? I was brought up in the school of strategic thinking built upon the fundamental assertion that the future is too ...

So, was Bill Gates wrong about the demise of banks? “Banking is necessary, banks are not”, so stated Bill Gates in 1994. Of course he was only worth $10BN ba...

New rules to live by... Once upon a time we were told that tax evasion was bad (and illegal) but tax avoidance was good. For who wanted to pay more tax than ...