The growing appreciation that our ‘built environments’ embrace a more sustainable role in our communities, is beginning to focus the minds of those constructing buildings, homes, and transport infrastructure. No longer is the life, durability and functionality of the building enough. The impacts on the physical, social, economic and natural environments need to be considered … Continue reading
Time to sharpen your claws, toughen your skin, and amp up your diplomatic and collaborative skills ‘to eleven’ if you’re embarking on a journey to sustainably reconfigure your organisation, its offering, and how it thinks, breathes and behaves. How should we handle the inevitable bite-back when the introduction of sustainability begins to rattle cages? In … Continue reading
Finding our feet, stretching our legs, and dusting down our face-to-face social skills have coincided with the gradual lifting of restrictions within the UK, as we’ve collectively battled with the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of us have stories to tell of how we lived through the past 18 months and faced the frustrations, dealt with loss, … Continue reading
Most of us have taken time over the past six months to stop and think hard about our lives – our priorities, how we live, work, and interact with others. It has been a seminal moment and not always comfortable as individuals, couples and families have been confined within their homes over ‘lockdown’, and equally … Continue reading
The climate change debate, raising awareness of plastic use polluting our oceans and waterways, and the redesigning of our roads and urban spaces to accommodate growing numbers of electric vehicles and cycles, no doubt has impacted on many of our daily lives in one way or another. But although the aspiration and intentions to ‘clean … Continue reading
Recently, LinkedIn recognised my ’10 years anniversary’ of working in my current role. First of all, thank you to those who have responded to the LinkedIn prompt. As we probably all appreciate, this quirk of LinkedIn may not actually mean very much, but as a device to reach out, say “Hello”, or remind everyone else … Continue reading
Here is a question which no doubt you have asked yourself many times, and I found myself doing so today. In this instance thinking about what I share through social channels and how I best support and leverage that to mutual benefit. When posting something online you carefully consider what might be deemed useful, augment … Continue reading
Interviewed in 2015 with Westminster Business School, University of Westminster as part of an industry research panel assessing the impact of digital on the fashion sector. From your experience, did you notice a change in fashion consumer’s behaviour in the past 5 years? If yes, can you tell me the top 3 changes? Yes! Firstly, consumers … Continue reading
Is this a question you’re about to ask someone? Or planning to ask a potential investor very soon? A recent request from a friend seeking advice on how to secure resources and raise funds, so they could kick start their enterprise, ended up with me writing down a few guidelines and sharing some useful advice … Continue reading
So now the Skyfall DVD has been released, many people will be watching the latest and long awaited 50th Anniversary Bond movie in which Daniel Craig’s steps out a third time as Britain’s favourite secret agent. But is this the end? Has the Skyfall made them (Bond movies) crumble? I have to be honest. I haven’t been … Continue reading
Mark Batchelor 