Category: Thinking
3rd May 2019 | Articles, Business Improvement, Client work, HR, Innovation, News, Thinking
Could an Internal Consultancy add value?
The pace of change brought about by the ‘digital revolution’ is disrupting the traditional technology and management consulting market. This is evident, for example, in… Read More
25th Apr 2019 | Articles, Business Improvement, News, Thinking
The Business Opportunity of Climate Change for Everyone
Perform Green’s CEO and Founder, Barney Smith explains how tackling climate change is good for business. I have been involved in studying and… Read More
25th Jan 2019 | Articles, HR, Innovation, News, Thinking
What will smart working look like 10 years from now?
Alison White of PLACEmaking and Barney Smith of Perform Green take a look at exciting future technology solutions and what ‘going to work’ will… Read More
14th Dec 2018 | Articles, Local Government, News, Thinking
Quandary convergence – humanity’s challenge
A thought piece by Perform Green Sector Director William Edrich. While pondering the current discussion happening at COP24 in Katowice, the recent IPCC special… Read More
22nd Nov 2018 | Innovation, Local Government, News, Thinking, UK Government
Digitizing the Public Sector
IT is transforming our lives around us at paces that we just cannot understand. We are talking about cars that have autopilots, we have… Read More
16th Nov 2018 | Articles, Innovation, News, Thinking
Freedom to Innovate
What do you do when you have complete freedom to innovate as an Executive Assistant? I have been working for Barney Smith our… Read More
5th Nov 2018 | Articles, HR, Innovation, News, Thinking
Making Remote Working Work For You
Remote working is being discussed more and more as an innovative way for teams to become more efficient. Improvements in home internet speeds and developments… Read More
10th Aug 2018 | Local Government, News, Thinking, UK Government
Those (large) hidden revenue streams for public bodies
Public Bodies are under intense financial pressure, and services will suffer. Right? I would argue “up to a point”. There are in fact some significant hidden… Read More
6th Aug 2018 | Local Government, News, Thinking
Delivering a Smart Society and in particular Smart Cities
People are variously excited, daunted and perturbed by the concept of Smart Society and Smart City. They see it as a huge change,… Read More
27th Jun 2018 | Articles, Local Government, Thinking
Mapping Sheffield’s district heating network
Building on our Smart Energy series, which began with a look at how the UK’s energy infrastructure will power the Smart Society, I am… Read More