by Carla Cico Member of the Board, Alcatel-Lucent Innovation, the search for talent and reorganization: these are three topics that nowadays we hear about again and again, as if they are new concepts in the corporate world. This is not true. Companies have always created success through searching for and…
by Ingrid Silver Partner, Dentons 2015 was an interesting year in the UK media industry and we are already well into the first quarter of what is expected to be a very fascinating and busy 2016. I would like to share with you a number of legal developments which we…
By Danielle Brown Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Intel[1] Just over a year ago, in January 2015, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich stunned the tech sector with an announcement of Intel’s Diversity in Technology Initiative[2]. This initiative committed Intel to reaching full representation of women and under-represented minorities in its…
by Ann Mei Chang Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Director at U.S. Global Development Lab at USAID Over the past 20 years, the number of people around the world living in extreme poverty has been cut in half. This past September, 193 of the world’s leaders came together to adopt…
by Renee LaLonde Founder and CEO of iTalent Corporation 2015 saw a major shift in the digitalization of many traditional sectors of the economy and society, including education, health and social services. Online classes in the form of MOOCs became markedly more available, health records began to go online, online…
by Kate McKenzie Chief Operations Officer, Telstra Corporation As part of the Senior Management Team at Telstra, I and my colleagues spend a lot of time thinking about and discussing innovation and culture change. We do this because we know innovation is a key driver of growth – not only…
by Mosiri Cabezas Director of Digital Transformation and Business Acceleration at Telefónica Everyone alive today will have the opportunity to experience what it is like to move from one era of human development to another. This new era will be one where we love, work, learn and age in a…
Unleash the Game Changers: The GC Index – A new solution to the challenges of culture change
February 22, 2016by Nathan Ott CEO eg1 Companies in all sectors of the economy are facing the same dilemma: how to respond to the enormous challenges confronting them in a time of digital disruption, rapid evolution of businesses and the demands of clients. Organisations have to somehow transform their businesses whilst at…
by Guy Pattison CEO Long Run Works Twenty years ago, about the same time that the GTWN was being established as a leading group of women in tech, a group of campaigners for women’s rights came up with a simple idea to capture a female vision for society.…
by Bibi Bleekemolen Impact Development, Fairphone Fairphone is a social enterprise that is building a movement for fairer electronics. We open up supply chains to understand how things are made and build stronger connections between people and their products.…
by Dr Hugh Lewis Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering, University of Southampton, UK Space junk, or orbital debris as NASA refers to it, is a growing problem with immense significance for the future of the digital communications industry and the users of its products and services. In 2014, the International…
by Dr Patrick Neumann Chief Scientist, Neumann Space Whether it’s piles of empty oxygen tanks on Mount Everest, or dead satellites in orbit, exploration leaves messy footprints behind. While this detritus is bad enough on Mount Everest, in space the effects could be disastrous. While space is mind-bogglingly big, the…
by Martin Geddes Founder and Principal, Geddes Consulting A common misconception in telecoms is that there is an equivalent of Moore’s law for networks. Whilst it is true that we have seen exponential growth in data transmission bitrates –driven by past rapid improvements in opto-electronics – no such property holds…
