February 2nd was Time to talk day, when the charity Time to change, encourages the nation to reach out to each other and take a moment to check in and make sure everyone is ok. Don’t worry if you missed it – you can take the time to reach out today too. This can be…

“We divided ourselves among caste, creed, culture and countries but what is undivided remains most valuable: a mere smile and the love.” ― Santosh Kalwar Britain is divided.  There’s no question about it.  Brexit pitted family members against each other and the closeness of the vote has torn an even wider chasm in politics.  Emotions are…

Government, business and media have all lost the confidence of the UK population in a dramatic fall in the last year.  There is an unprecedented feeling in the UK that life is not as fair as it used to be. Only one in nine of the UK population think that the system still works. The…

“The 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals the largest-ever drop in trust across the institutions of government, business, media and NGOs. Trust in media (43 percent) fell precipitously and is at all-time lows in 17 countries” Fake news sells. It’s a cliché that most people don’t read past the headline of any story.  One of the…

What struck your imagination at CES, the much anticipated trade show for leading edge developments this year?   Our head of digital Sarah Treliving felt that overall whilst there’s lots of products on show that do cool stuff at the show, only a very few of them feel like they’ve been designed for a current…

2017 marks thirty years since the original publication of the book that made Chaos Theory popular. Chaos Theory is a branch of mathematics that explains how huge change can come about unexpectedly from the accumulation of tiny changes.  The most famous example is the butterfly effect. This shows how a tiny change, caused by the…

We are not all motivated by the same things. Some of us are very motivated by the idea that there might still be a corner office in our future, if we haven’t all been replaced by robots.  Some of us like to come to work because we enjoy working in a big team and can’t…

Robots are taking our jobs, or at least they’re about to. Or are they? Certainly programmatic is due to sweep across the industry and some jobs are becoming automated. Margins aren’t getting any fatter in advertising.  Saving time and resource is one reasonable prediction for top bosses’ priorities in 2017.  In the age of automation…

Yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set,…

Dr Ed Lu is an American physicist and former astronaut.  He was one of the opening speakers at this year’s Marketing Society conference.  How cool is that.  Everyone wants to hear from an astronaut. He flew on two space shuttle flights and made an extended 6 month stay on the International Space Station.   He…

Football: a beautiful game and a business. If there were more women involved in football at senior levels there would be better performance. When there are more women involved in senior management of businesses there is better performance. Is football really that different? There’s plenty of research into the benefits of gender balance for business. …

Have you been keeping up with the latest investigations into the Dark Matter of the universe?  100s of millions of pounds have been spent searching for Dark Matter.  Physicists have been searching for 3 decades.  Not only have they not found it they still don’t know what it is that they are looking for. Jonathan…