By Keith Grint Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People was written in 1882, after his previous play Ghosts had received poor reviews for its attack upon the hypocrisy of public morality. Ibsen wanted to respond by illustrating the way that telling the truth was both necessary, and often unpopular…

By Natalia Levina Over the last decade open source communities have become not just the bedrock of today’s digital industry, but also essential to some of the most advanced technology on the planet. Or even outside the planet. The International Space Station (ISS) switched from Windows to Linux Foundation’s Debian…

By Christina Wawarta and Sotirios Paroutis Strategy has traditionally been the purview of the CEO and senior executives in an organisation. …

By Pietro Micheli Although it is slowly lifting, the economic lockdown across much of the world is putting organisations under severe pressure. While this downturn is creating lots of difficulties, business leaders have the opportunity to not just re-examine what they have done in the past, but challenge their assumptions…

By Nicola Burgess For more than a decade I have been studying the application of quality improvement methods within healthcare contexts. I have observed many a flirtation with lean, six sigma, lean-sigma and countless other variations. …

By Eivor Oborn When you visit Kenya it is hard to avoid the distinctive dark green and white of the M-Pesa logo on shopfronts in Nairobi’s famous Kenyatta Avenue, as well as painted across the front of stores in Kibera, the largest slum in Africa. M-Pesa is a mobile phone-based…

By Ram Gopal, Niam Yaraghi, Darrell West and Ram Ramesh A little girl innocently counts petals on a flower. When she reaches nine her face freezes and a countdown interrupts as the camera slowly zooms into her eye. …

By Michael Bradshaw In recent weeks the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the energy industry has started to emerge. …

By John Colley Warren Buffet once said “only when the tide goes out will we see who has been swimming naked”. The global pandemic has precipitated a plummet in demand and investment akin to the dot.com bubble bursting at the turn of the century. The tide is well-and-truly out now…