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