Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models
| Tags: recession,
Board,
research,
financial,
strategy,
New Business Models,
Economist,
EIU,
M%A | Total Views: 142625
Our research shows that most companies need to review, and possibly renew, their business models.
Here are some suggestions from our own experts on the areas that you might wish to table:
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: awards,
National Business Awards,
Alistair Darling,
Scott Barnes,
Nick Robertson,
ASOS,
David Maxwell,
Wesleyan Assurance Society,
PayPoint,
Umeco,
moneysupermarket.com,
Telecity Group,
Greggs,
The Restaurant Group,
Stobart Group | Total Views: 18076
Monday, July 27, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
research,
technology,
global,
university,
engineering,
europe,
science,
intellectual property,
defence,
robots | Total Views: 11514
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Monday, August 17, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
statistics,
infographic,
global,
chart,
patents,
World Patent Report | Total Views: 10154
Who is leading the world in innovation right now? Using the latest data from the
Friday, June 04, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Media,
Technology
| Tags: technology,
financial,
Twitter,
iPhone,
Credit Card Reader,
Jack Dorsey,
Android,
Square | Total Views: 10085
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has launched a mobile payment solution that allows anyone with an iPhone to take plastic
Thursday, June 25, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Healthcare
| Tags: health,
john wilden,
global healthcare | Total Views: 9198
“Global Healthcare Futures (GHF) is a UK company that is the brain child of John Wilden, a former specialist and consultant neurosurgeon. GHF is developing and promoting software products for “Time to Cure” and “Cost to Cure” Common Diseases based on the advances of molecular biology and other technologies which will underpin the fast looming world of curative global healthcare, thereby ushering in a new age of diminishing healthcare costs across the developed and developing world”.
Dr Tim Evans, Chairman of Global Health Futures
Friday, August 07, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
| Total Views: 8367
Summer in Paris, it’s no picnic this year. Last month’s Paris Air Show was as exciting as yesterday’s croissant; and EasyJet have flattened aeronautic soufflés, scaling down new aircraft acquisition. As President Sarkozy likes to say: “I feel… little… faint…”
Carla arrived at L’Hospital on a motorcycle; it was certainly more chic than an entree with a police car. But what if Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy had a ‘Skycar’?
Thursday, November 12, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
recession,
awards,
online,
National Business Awards,
Nick Robertson,
ASOS,
Retail,
Mid-Cap Business of the year | Total Views: 7438
Thursday, May 28, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Environment
| Tags: innovation,
government,
renewable energy,
national grid,
biogas | Total Views: 7237
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Media,
Technology
| Tags: Bill Gates,
Facebook,
Google,
Microsoft,
award,
social networking,
Innovation,
Ross Perot,
Social media,
Steven Levitt,
Superfreakonomics,
Mark Zuckerberg,
Economist Innovation Award,
billionaire | Total Views: 6593
Mark Zuckerberg has a huge problem – what’s he going to do next? This year’s Economist Innovation Award winner, the 24-year old billionaire creator and Facebook CEO, may have peaked too early. Until Facebook develops an application to tell the future, the profile of another Ivy League drop-out, entrepreneur and programmer provides some insight. Zuckerberg may be the next William Gates III – energetic, opportunistic, commercially savvy.
Thursday, January 14, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Environment,
Healthcare,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
links,
recession,
NHS,
teamwork,
patents,
patent,
solar power | Total Views: 6311
Ingenious solar-powered designs, successful products from recessions past, radical innovation in the NHS, innovation events around the UK, and more – the Grant Thornton Innovation team aims to bring you the most popular business stories and useful links each month. Here’s what we’ve been reading…
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Environment,
Media,
Technology
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
links,
Cirque du Soleil,
Innovation,
music | Total Views: 6303
From the reef-like nature of innovation and new ideas, to innovation lessons from the Cirque du Soleil, here’s what the Grant Thornton Innovation team has been reading about this week…
Friday, March 12, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models
| Tags: innovation,
recession,
entrepreneur,
research,
financial,
business models,
New Business Models,
car,
Alysoun Stewart,
economist | Total Views: 6276
Nearly two thirds (63%) of UK businesses are hamstrung by their own business models and unprepared for the recovery according to new research from leading financial and business advisers, Grant Thornton.
How is your business responding to the recession?
Friday, June 04, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: research,
Bill Gates,
eco,
Microsoft,
Clouds,
Greenhouse,
Engineering | Total Views: 5979
In the marvelous playground that is the mind of Microsoft billionaire, Bill Gates, the world must look like a Mario Kart video game. Gates is funding research into machines to suck up ten tonnes of seawater every second and spray it upwards, seed vast banks of white clouds to reflect the Sun’s rays away from Earth.
Friday, April 09, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models,
Business,
Media
| Tags: media,
technology,
government,
business models,
Mark Henshaw,
Finance Bill,
Digital Economy Bill,
Landline tax,
Spotify | Total Views: 5905
“The digital sector plays a vital role in the UK economy and the Government is attempting to acknowledge this via the
Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models
| Tags: strategy,
Wendy Hart,
Google,
Stephen Weatherseed,
economist,
Microsoft,
EIU,
Dominic Preston,
Will Oxley,
New Business Model | Total Views: 5887
Read here what our Grant Thornton experts think about the weaknesses of business models used by UK businesses today.
Let us know what you think
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
chart,
Twitter,
investors,
real-time,
StreamGraph,
Neoformix,
conversation,
invention,
inventors,
graph | Total Views: 5437
Innovators, investors and inventors – and, no doubt, lots of other types beginning with ‘I’ – need to keep their ear to the ground. How can you do that in a fun way? With this new Twitter infographic, you can tune into real-time conversation just by typing in a keyword.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
energy,
education,
Gordon Brown,
healthcare,
security,
collaborative innovation,
Saul Kaplan,
downing street | Total Views: 5429
Friday, November 20, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: Accountancy Age, awards, innovation, Bespoke, Elevate | Total Views: 5386
Praised by the judges for our willingness to move with the times and engage with students, as well as our joined up thinking about how well we evolve into a cutting edge business, Grant Thornton won Best Use of Internet at the
Monday, September 14, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Media,
Technology
| Tags: technology,
FT,
Twitter,
fashion,
The Times,
IFA,
Berlin,
Ralph Lauren,
3-D home cinema,
Scott Schuman,
Netbook,
Dell,
The Sartorialist,
pay-per-click,
Samsung,
Sascha Pallenberg,
consumer technology,
Gap, Blogging | Total Views: 5130
Berlin’s brand ‘n’ blog gateway opened to a flood of technology innovation last week. The annual IFA, one of the world’s largest tech exhibitions, served as the launch pad for streams of new consumer devices, not least of which is the 3-D home cinema experience. At the hotdog stands, the buzz was all about Samsung’s giant exhibition space, the heart of which was a thirty metre tall entertainment dome. It was all very sci-fi, and I’m still not sure if there was a point to it, other than to elicit hundreds of thousands of “Wow” sounds from visitors, and to create a buzz, around the hotdog stands.
