This month a team at UNIST in Korea posted their understanding of how to perfect graphene growth. Perfect sheets of graphene (single crystal graphene) is important for making next generation electronic devices among many other things. To make wrinkle free single crystal graphene, first make the single crystal copper surface on which it can grow. …
I’m a strategic facilitator. That means I help organisations to think about their futures and create action plans. Usually I’m designing and delivering strategy events that enable boards and their senior management teams do this future planning. Over the past few months I’ve been juggling this day job and also applying these techniques to my …
Any plans we make now will be obsolete in a few months time as things change so much. I’ve noticed this type of comment reflected back to me more and more over the recent years. It seems an impossible task to plan in an inherently uncertain world, but it can be done. We have developed …
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This has been occupying my thoughts for some time since I decided to open up my work to the wider world. I’ll explain what I do… From 2002 I have been working as facilitator with top management teams; I have a particular skill in helping strategically minded people engage with those more operationally minded. In …
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Foresight A thorny problem for those looking into the future is the issue Unknown Unknowns. The abbreviation – ‘unk-unks’ – has even entered the Oxford English Dictionary. We would all like to know what lies ahead of us, but the fact is that most predictions are rather inaccurate. I’ll be completely open with you; there …
Stepping off the plane on to the tarmac it feels like I’m stepping into a film set. A bright red Bond helicopter flies low overhead, several others taxi into position nearby. This place is full of purposeful activity. Yet that is not unusual for this commute to work. The reason for writing this blog entry …
Sounds great doesn’t it – Let’s have a bright shiny strategic goal. An eye catching challenge, A mountain top to climb. Something to rally the troops around. Many of the strategy projects I work on start like this; The leadership team has a sense of unity around the destination, they have something exciting that can be communicated …
In the dash for new energy sources, particularly in the UK we seem to be finding more shale gas than oil, for example the BBC reports – http://bbc.in/19HchNC. Have you wondered why there seems to be more gas than oil? Oil exists underground. It was made there when organic rich sediments called Kerogen were ‘cracked’ …
Comparison of Shale Gas and Kerosene powered aircraft. The copyright owner (Adrian Nixon) grants unrestricted use of this image provided you quote the source. The current fracking boom in the USA and elsewhere is creating new supplies of fossil fuels. In particular, Shale Gas is being found in larger quantities than Shale Oil (Also known …
We are getting the hang of facilitating mixed virtual and physical groups. We are innovating with small but significant incremental improvements. Tick Box – created by Rawich This group has people who attend physically, we also have people attending from all over the UK and also from Continental Europe. Readers of this blog will know …
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