Introducing social entrepreneurship into your housing business model doesn’t just make charitable sense, it also makes good business sense. As the UK government has incorporated a social value score into its 2021 procurement process, altruism has never looked more appealing. Continuous change is critical to business model innovation; it’s a topic we’ve blogged about before …
Meet Carfit, the next in our series of interviews with disruptors and innovators involved in enabling and delivering emerging technologies. These are the companies driving digital disruption, changing the landscape of different industries, and challenging established and outdated systems. This week it’s the turn of Nicolas Olivier, Co-Founder and CEO of Carfit, the company revolutionising …
Sometimes it takes a crisis to create an opportunity. It was only a matter of time before disrupted health met disrupted transport. Now Upstart and the ATAC community are joining forces to address the unmet needs for testing and long-term health service delivery in the community. We urgently need help from all parties to make …
There’s no doubt that COVID-19 is driving digital disruption. This isn’t a dystopian world of robotic overlords, as depicted in the Terminator movies. It’s more akin to Jarvis from “Ironman” – Assisting its human creator, as opposed to replacing him. Chatbots are fielding customer service enquiries, automated production lines are replacing staff shortages and robots …
There is no business which remains unaffected by Coronavirus. The rapid move to remote working is one example of how a health crisis has driven a new kind of digital disruption. Once safe, business leaders should learn from the speed and scale of the transformation which has taken place this month. So? Officially declared a …
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Insurance is one industry where digital technology arrived late but is having a significant impact. Away from the “insurtech” boom, it’s creating a cat-and-mouse game between fraudsters and those who want to catch them. Our team’s insurance expert Laurence Smith explores how the industry is embracing digital tools such as voice and emotion recognition to …
In the X-Files, agents Scully and Mulder disagreed over whether “the truth was out there”. In today’s advertising-polluted, clickbait-driven world, the truth may well be out there, but companies need new sets of tools – and new values – to help find it, and to make better decisions. So? Truth matters more than ever. In …
Today’s disrupted data landscape leaves many businesses perplexed about how to respond. On the horizon are a host of threats, yet it’s never clear which ones deserve a response. Horizon scanning and digital trends can help you decide, but only if you are filtering and distilling that information on a regular basis, not once a …
Time is precious. Many legacy businesses are operating with outdated, cumbersome systems which are designed to minimise risk, and so slow down or halt meaningful change. At the same time, digital disruption is happening all around us; coming from nowhere and at an alarming speed. Sometimes that’s where the best business ideas come from. Out …
So? Upstart’s approach to strategy starts by defining and framing a problem statement – we then look at how we can solve that. Almost always that involves a change in behaviour of those involved in addressing the strategic change. Behaviour change is an often-used, poorly-understood term. Our team’s expert Joel Shopland explores the backdrop behind …
