Are there too few women in our seats of power?
Ian Ritchie Business HQ / The Herald October 1st, 2023 Are women increasingly dissatisfied with their working lives? Here, Ian Ritchie...
Should we get in a lather over advent of AI?
Ian Ritchie Business HQ / The Herald June 29th, 2023 Artificial Intelligence could transform the economy but investors should be...
World awaits if we invest in the future
Ian Ritchie Business HQ / The Herald March 26th 2023 The UK is in dire need of technology innovative companies to compete globally,...
Grab opportunities by the horns
Ian Ritchie Business HQ / The Herald December 11th 2022 Ian Ritchie explores the prospects of Scotland producing brand new unicorns by...
Putin's horror in Ukraine could be eclipsed by action over Taiwan
Ian Ritchie Scottish Business Insider - May 2022 THE RUSSIAN INVASION of Ukraine has blown a massive hole in the globalised trading...
The strange case of 'levelling up' is surely an affront to democracy
Ian Ritchie Scottish Business Insider - February 2022 AT THE LAST UK ELECTION the Conservatives succeeded in winning a substantial...
Note to COP26: We will need trillions to fund the grand challenges
Ian Ritchie Scottish Business Insider Oct/Nov/Dec 2021 COP26, arriving in Glasgow over the coming days, will undoubtedly be declared a...
The world has a message for Facebook: it's time to clean up your network.
MARK ZUCKERBERG IS the master of all he surveys. His social media businesses are worth over one trillion dollars and have over 2.5bn...
It's time for the government to cut its ties to Openreach and look to the skies
Scottish Business Insider May 2021 BACK AT THE TURN of the 21st century, I was the ‘expert advisor’ to a committee of the Scottish...
Attracting Scots talent to return home could be shot in the arm for battered economy
Scottish Business Insider February 2021 ON, INEVITABLY, a Zoom call recently with a group of senior Scottish businessmen, I was struck...
A word of caution over online security as you turn to tech for business
Scottish Business Insider May 2020 IN THE DYSTOPIAN DISASTER MOVIE in which we are all currently trapped, many of us are working from...
Terry Wogan can teach us a lot about modern banking
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 tale of two online fantasy sports games rivals
A FASCINATING NEW BOOK has just been published in the USA: ‘Billion Dollar Fantasy’, written by Albert Chen, a Sports Illustrated editor....
Issues of trust leave Facebook with uphill struggle to introduce Libra currency
IN A BREATHTAKING LACK of self-awareness, Facebook, the least trusted company in the world in protecting customer's personal data, have...
Scotland's Space Technology Industry gathers momentum
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...
The art of stopping dark abuses of technology before they happen
AT LONG LAST, social media companies have been firmly put on the naughty step; guilty as charged of spreading fake news, encouraging...
Orkney becomes first in UK to power its energy needs from renewable sources
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...