Innovation Blog

Twitter founder launches iPhone credit card reader

Friday, June 04, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories: Media, Technology | Tags: technology, financial, Twitter, iPhone, Credit Card Reader, Jack Dorsey, Android, Square

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has launched a mobile payment solution that allows anyone with an iPhone to take plastic

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Flawed strategies put business recovery at risk as recession ends

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

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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?

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10 ways to put business models on the board agenda

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

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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:

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What should business leaders focus on to survive?

Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: New Business Models | Tags: financial, business models, Wendy Hart, New Business Models, Lead Advisory Services

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Business models - the challenges facing UK businesses today

Some of our experts give us their view ...

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Hail the Chief – Jack Welch Injects Executive Education with Competitive Boost

Friday, July 10, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories: Education | Tags: innovation, media, entrepreneur, financial, government, talent, university, india, car

Neutron Jack is back. Jack Welch,  General Electric’s supercharged former CEO, is putting formidable wealth right next to his informative mouth, launching a new online MBA which he claims will compete with bricks and mortar programmes.

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Auto innovation - The end game

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories: Business, Technology | Tags: innovation, research, technology, financial, government, energy, university, innovators, science, car

One per cent of the energy we burn driving a car is used to move the driver. In one hundred years of automotive innovation, mankind has fought financial and military battles over oil reserves; only to announce that 99% of our effort was to shift a hunk of metal. Maybe we should have kept the horses.

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Britain must look to the east to grow strongly

Tuesday, June 02, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Business | Tags: innovation, financial, international, emerging markets, talent

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“We need to reinvent ourselves and invest in innovation to compete in the emerging markets”, writes Gerard Lyons in the Sunday Times 31 May 2009

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Get me a dealmaker – One part innovator, one part salesman. Shaken and stirred.

Friday, May 01, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories: Business, Education, Technology | Tags: innovation, research, technology, financial, university, europe, intellectual property, economist, patent, entrepreneurial, capitalism

Seventy years ago,

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