Scottish Business Insider May 2021 BACK AT THE TURN of the 21st century, I was the ‘expert advisor’ to a committee of the Scottish...
Scottish Business Insider February 2021 ON, INEVITABLY, a Zoom call recently with a group of senior Scottish businessmen, I was struck...
Scottish Business Insider May 2020 IN THE DYSTOPIAN DISASTER MOVIE in which we are all currently trapped, many of us are working from...
THERE WAS A JOKE going around at the beginning of the last decade. It went like this: Who is the odd one out: Dennis Stevenson (former...
A FASCINATING NEW BOOK has just been published in the USA: ‘Billion Dollar Fantasy’, written by Albert Chen, a Sports Illustrated editor....
IN A BREATHTAKING LACK of self-awareness, Facebook, the least trusted company in the world in protecting customer's personal data, have...
AS WE ALL KNOW, 100 years ago, the Clyde shipbuilding industry was the biggest in Europe, building a fifth of the world’s ships, but what...
AT LONG LAST, social media companies have been firmly put on the naughty step; guilty as charged of spreading fake news, encouraging...
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO I was invited to speak at the newly established Orkney Science Festival and I looked forward to making my first of...
WHEN BROADCASTING was first introduced around the world - radio from the 1920s and television from the late 1940s – governments...
GOVERNMENTS, political parties and economists have recently been revisiting an old issue - who actually owns businesses, and maybe...
THE LAST 20 years have not been kind to those creative types who originate new content. Advertising income which used to financially...
THE CITY OF SEATTLE at the top left hand corner of the United States has become famous for successful global businesses such as Boeing,...
WHENEVER I AM OBLIGED to join the ranks of the WILLIEs – that’s the name for people who ‘Work In London, Live In Edinburgh’ – I usually...
LET'S FACE IT – Scotland doesn’t really lead the world in anything much. Our sports teams are mediocre, we have almost no globally...
BACK IN 1989, I was chairman of the Scottish Software Federation, the then nascent trade association for the Scottish software industry....
