This article was co written by Mark Lumsdon Taylor and Sabrina Freitas. We should not be surprised. Every stunted potato in a field, and every brown, scorched pasture across the wider UK countryside is not an ‘Eclipse’ moment or event. It is the simple and inevitable arithmetic of a planet that has just lived through…
Organisations that keep the economy and daily life moving, energy, transport, health, water, food, digital infrastructure, public administration, now operate in an environment where disruption is no longer the exception. Extreme weather, cyber-attacks, geopolitical tension, supply-chain failure and technology outages can hit physical assets, people and data at the same time. With the Civil Defence…
Arguably, the first recognisable consulting firm came into existence in 1886, when Arthur Dehon Little and Roger B. Griffin entered into a partnership in the US that later became Arthur D. Little, evolving from a chemical testing and technical research company to a general management consultancy. In the UK the first recognisable consulting firm was…
Emeritus Professor Joe Nellis is Head of Economic Research at MHA, the accountancy and advisory firm. With inflation rising to 3.3% in August and Brent crude oil once again above $100 a barrel, the European Central Bank has decided that the European — and global, economy is no longer facing merely a short-term inflation shock.…
The AI talent challenge nobody is talking about. Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the defining business story of the decade. Organisations are dedicating significant resources to automation, data systems, and AI tools to increase productivity and efficiency, accelerate decision-making, and cut costs-but this focus risks overlooking deeper organisational implications. The commercial logic for the uptake…
