“For the music festivals of the future, technology is the headline act” (Intel,2020). During the past decade, digital technology has revolutionised almost every music festival, and today technology promises further development during a thriving period for the industry. It can be perceived from the world around us how far we Read more…
By Eleanor Gregory Will the Live Music industry survive Covid-19? The year 2020 was set to be the most revenue generating year the live music industry has ever seen prior to COVID-19, but because of this the industry has experienced a catastrophic blow (Winterburn, 2020). An industry worth over £1.1 Read more…
The future of the fashion industry is uncertain. The COVID-19 crisis has affected every type of retailer, but bricks-and-mortar retailers have been badly hit, having to close high street stores for weeks. As they prepare to open from the 15th June 2020, it is not yet clear how many shops Read more…
The release of the April 2020 retail sales figures from the Office of National Statistics confirms the concerns that commentators and politicians expressed throughout May. The previous figures for March had already set the scene. With only one week of lockdown included in the previous month, the 5% fall in Read more…
As our collective response to COVID-19 is slowly moving from lockdown to the reopening and reactivation of the economy a new challenge is emerging. Traditional methods of categorising business and workers are now being tested and questioned. Recognising a change in the ways business and workers are defined may become Read more…
By Tina Judic, CEO of Found In the Strategic Digital Transformation book, chapter 6 is titled ‘How to become a digitally enabled and visionary leader’. In this blog post, Tina Judic discusses leading a digital business through a global pandemic. This is the first time in my life as a Read more…
By Tim Griggs After reading “COVID-19: the new and unwanted member of the C-Suite” on this blog, it struck me that this is part of a broader challenge that many knowledge-based organisations will now face. That is, the excellent and proactive way in which many have reacted to the sudden Read more…
By Dr. Gordon Fletcher COVID-19 continues to draw out the creative, humorous and innovative side of individuals as a panacea to boredom . At the same time many businesses have been busy reinventing themselves by introducing innovations and even entirely new business models. CovidInnovation.com is endeavouring to track these new ideas and responses to COVID-19 as they Read more…
By Gordon Fletcher, Alex Fenton and Marie Griffiths At the beginning of 2020 we celebrated the release of the book, “Strategic Digital Transformation“. As a collection that brings together the combined experiences of academic and business authors, the book makes it very clear that digital transformation requires support from all Read more…