IT in a remote landscape
Change. It’s something we’ve all grown accustomed to in recent decades, but it doesn’t exist in isolation, and it doesn’t always travel in a straight line. As the pace of technological advancement accelerates year-on-year, and a growing number of industries increasingly rely on digital solutions to solve their problems, change has become the norm. With […]
Say hello to fuss free travel
Integrated mobility; it’s a hot topic in the transport world at the moment – but what does it really mean? Integrated transport, also known as multimodal or intermodal mobility, is where transport services and public authorities work together to encourage users to take trips involving multiple modes of transport. An example of this would be […]
Collaboration – Together and Stronger not Disjointed and Weaker
True collaboration, if achieved, can be immensely powerful. A famous example was when Sony and Philips, two well established corporations collaborated for the development of the ‘Compact Disc (CD)’, single handily revolutionising the music industry. However, collaboration is not as easy as just utilising the additional resource, technology or expertise. So the question is what […]
Bus Back Better
We are currently working in the bus depot in Coventry where Boris Johnson announced his Bus Back Better strategy. Whilst the publicity generated by sitting in an electric bus is only likely to have short term benefits, there are some longer term implications of the strategy which forward thinking operators will grasp, and help to […]
Are your incentives actually disincentives?
Let’s say you’d recently lost a relative and are entitled to claim the remainder of their pension, you have raised the claim but have heard very little back. You’re distressed from your loss and phone the pension provider on a weekly basis to get updates, but they have little in response – it’s the same […]
A question of balance
It is no secret that local authorities have always faced pressures from ever increasing demand on services like social care, schooling and housing, as well as the requirement to become more environmentally friendly by offering increased recycling options to reduce waste, to name a few of the many challenges they face. And somehow, local authorities, […]
Transportation in a post-covid world
As the post-Covid horizon comes into view, planning is starting on what the next ‘new normal’ will look like. Sustainability is currently high on the agenda, but work will be required to ensure that this, in itself, is sustained or whether life will return to its pre lockdown ways, or worse. At the start of […]
Forecasting and planning for 2021 after the year that everything changed
As we approach Christmas, teams across all sectors and industries will be taking the opportunity to review and reflect on the past year. How did we do against our target? How well did we adapt to what the year threw at us? What did we do well, not so well and what learnings or changes […]
Cutting through the data
Data, data, data… it’s everywhere. In the ever increasingly connected world, with the help of technology, businesses have never had this much visibility of their day-to-day operation. You may be thinking this can only be a good thing…right? As with anything, too much of a good thing can be bad. The challenge with data is […]
Change is here but change is coming
Since the beginning of March, we have faced uncertainty and change. Tragic deaths, unemployment going up and fearing the worst about another economic depression. It’s probably fair to say that this period, for most, has been one of mixed emotions – that feeling of being “up and down”, hard to put into words, blog or […]
