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Podcasts – the next big wave in business?
Thursday, 18 March 2021
The podcasting experience might just be the next big wave in business… Funnily enough, podcasting got its name from the iPod – the first mobile platform where ‘audio-blogs’ could be downloaded and listened to. Journalist Ben Hammersly coined the term ‘podcast’ back in 2004 and since around that time- when podcasts were made available on
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Tree planting in the mud and rain…
Monday, 15 March 2021
Whilst delivering we dropped in to see how our mental health charity partner Shiva Trust, were getting on with the latest 1,000 tree planting. We found Anand and the team planting trees knee deep in mud, during a Rossendalian downpour. Anand told me: “These 2 paddocks had our pigs in them, but we’re moving them
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Who needs humans anyway?
Friday, 12 March 2021
Who needs humans anyway? That’s the subtle for ‘The Glass Cage’ written by Nicolas Carr in 2015, which is not like other books written about the future with technology, it comes from a different angle. It’s still a book about automation, about the use of technology, computers, and software to do things we used to
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Why Moore’s Law inspires guaranteed prices?
Monday, 08 March 2021
Gordon Moore was co-founder of Intel… Although, he’s better known for a prediction made in a 1965 article for ‘Electronics’ magazine, about integrated circuits and how the cost of them will drive innovation, he said: “The Complexity for minimum component cost has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of 2 per year, over
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Is the AI revolution the second machine age?
Friday, 05 March 2021
Society hasn’t really seen a machine age since the industrial revolution… When steam power allowed us to overcome the limitations of muscle power (human and animal) and generate massive amounts of useful energy as will. This led to factories and mass production, to railways and mass transportation, modern life if you like. It was the
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Tree revolution continues at pace!
Friday, 05 March 2021
The tree revolution continues… In February, 27 people and companies purchased home & business printer technology solutions. Which means another 27 trees have been planted, in-conjunction with our mental health charity partner Shiva Trust. For those unaware, for every technology agreement, we plant a tree for that customer and provide them with a certificate showing
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Lancashire elderly enter digital revolution
Wednesday, 03 March 2021
Supporting our local communities is important for us at any time… Although, it’s taken on a whole new meaning for us during the last 12 months. We’re only a small business and have been struggling ourselves during the pandemic, even so, our team has managed to help our local community in three ways. During the
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Why we’re all entrepreneurs inside?
Monday, 01 March 2021
All humans are entrepreneurs … When we lived in caves, we we’re all self-employed, having to find our own food, to feed ourselves and our families, just to survive. That’s where human history begins. As civilisations and then big corporations came, individual entrepreneurship got suppressed. We became followers of civilisation leaders and labour for big
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Matteo Ricci ‘Cultural Accommodation’ strategy
Sunday, 28 February 2021
Religious evangelism may at first glance appear to be a dubious subject for a business article… However, I would like to draw your attention to a strategy used in the 15th-16th century by Jesuit Missionaries called ‘Cultural Accommodation.’ This was most notably used by an Italian missionary named Matteo Ricci, who was tasked with the
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Why small giants aren’t unicorns?
Friday, 26 February 2021
Good day, time for a business book review… When most authors write a book about the traits of successful businesses, their research is focused on large public companies or those seeking to become large fast. Interestingly there is a large group of smaller non-public companies growing quietly and gradually, and who are doing so in
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