FastForward answers the questions that keep entrepreneurs awake at night. Hosted by Patricia Keating, programme director at Tech Manchester, this podcast features interviews with experts covering everything you need to know about starting a business including; branding, marketing, mentoring, funding and investment, recruitment and everything in between. Founders also share their experiences of startup life. Packed with tips and advice FastForward gives you all you need turn your business ideas into reality.
Crisis spawns Necessity. Necessity fuels Innovation. McKinsey & Co have reported that the pandemic response is that Companies are deprioritizing innovation to concentrate on four things: shoring up their core business, pursuing known opportunity spaces, conserving cash and minimizing risk,
However in past crises, companies that invested in innovation delivered superior growth and performance postcrisis.
JFK once observed that the word “crisis” in Chinese is made up of two characters—danger, and opportunity. He may not have been entirely correct on the linguistics, but the sentiment is true enough.
How do companies find creative ways to continue fund their innovative projects?
Dr Vivien Badout, CEO of DRIAD innovation consultancy for deep-tech start-ups and SMEs. and expert in innovation grant funding joins us to help answer that question
Website https://www.driad.co/ (https://www.driad.co/)
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCceXHh0iIjRgPWkZ_Clschg (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCceXHh0iIjRgPWkZ_Clschg)
12 Jan 2021
115: Building a resilient creative workforce for the future
Ian Livingstone CBE is calling for schools to embrace games-based learning and digital creativity to help address the question of the growing skills gap facing employers.
Ian has had a hugely successful career built on his passion for games and gamebooks.
He has partnered with the Aspirations Academies Trust. They have teamed up to launch The Livingstone Academy Bournemouth which will be rooted in science, technology, engineering, arts and maths (STEAM)
Ian share's with us what happens when a game-obsessed entrepreneur meets education thought leaders and how they are preparing to up-skill the next generation.
https://www.livingstone-aspirations.org/ (https://www.livingstone-aspirations.org/)
5 Jan 2021
114: How to build entrepreneur well-being for 2021
2020 was one of the most challenging many of us will face in our lifetime. Whilst a little different, Christmas typically allows time to reflect and restore our energy levels with family .
Batteries re-charged, how do we look forward to 2021 with positivity?
New Lockdown measures announced last night (5th Jan 2020) means we need to dig deep.
Even as lockdown eases, work patterns are set to remain blended with home and socially distanced office working.
What tools and self-care can we deploy to maintain those energy levels for both ourselves and our employees?
Emma-Louise Fusari founder of In-House Health provides employers with anonymised health data of their workforce to design targeted health initiatives and employee wellbeing.
She’s taken her wealth of experience in chronic disease management and delivering public health programmes, to get on the front foot of mental and physical wellbeing
She joins us today to share insights today on how to face the challenge of lockdown and eventually a healthier happier 2021
Show Notes :
BusinessCloud Well-Being Story
https://www.businesscloud.co.uk/opinion/five-gadgets-to-improve-your-wellbeing-in-2021/ (https://www.businesscloud.co.uk/opinion/five-gadgets-to-improve-your-wellbeing-in-2021/)
Check out In-House Health and Digital Nurse In-House Health (http://www.inhousehealth.co.uk)
Is burn out the real virus blog : https://inhousehealth.co.uk/is-burnout-the-real-virus-impacting-tech/ (https://inhousehealth.co.uk/is-burnout-the-real-virus-impacting-tech/)
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/thedigitalnurse/
Check out the radio show Check Up Tuesday
https://www.fabradiointernational.com/fab-radio-schedule/tuesday/inhouse-health-radio-show (https://www.fabradiointernational.com/fab-radio-schedule/tuesday/inhouse-health-radio-show)
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