Covid-19

Covid-19, Investors, Strategy, Trend Spotting

Covid climbs into the ring with the rioters

Authorities across Europe have been increasingly nervous about accelerating Covid infections. The German health minister told his public that “…Germans would be vaccinated, cured or dead by Christmas”. Populations are tired of pandemic restrictions, though, and many are taking to the streets, rioting in Holland, France, Belgium, Austria, and elsewhere (Reuters). Not to be outdone,…
Covid-19, Digitalisation, Entrepreneurs, Executing, Investors, Management, Organisation

How to stop Cloud costs strangling business

Once the tech is running, it’s the business that matters in the Cloud Once the devs have worked their magic and the tech is running and doing what it should, the challenges move to business: getting the service to customes and users reliably, at scale, and profitably. This is where the business challenges begin as…
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Everything is normal already

Last week’s first in-person business meeting came and went, and Friday’s “first evening dinner at a restaurant with friends in ages” did too. Family round for lunch in the garden yesterday was very good, and today’s Sunday lunch with different friends at another restaurant will be, as well. Next week is already full of scheduled…
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The Five Forces of Endemic Covid-19

It’s becoming clear what the future will be like. We know what we know, we know what we don’t know, and the main features are now coming into focus.  It’s going to be a balancing act. The first thing that we know that is highly unlikely to change soon, is that Covid-19 is endemic, globally….
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Covid-19 Insights: Europe and other places are heating up

There’s a growing list of sizeable countries with significant fatality rates and infection growth. Many of them are in Europe, particularly Eastern Europe.  South America also has a growing problem and the Middle East is starting to figure strongly, too. The UK is low on the list, while more and more countries in Continental Europe…
Covid-19, Management, Strategy

Covid-19: The Northern Hemisphere looks like a problem

In the last week of February, daily fatalities in the Northern Hemisphere broke the downward trend that it had been following with the rest of the globe, and punched upwards, and this upward move has become stronger in recent days. Daily fatalities per million of population in northern countries is now higher than at any…
Covid-19, Executing, Investors, Management, Organisation

Managing occupational health issues in the new normal

Few businesses would doubt that the pandemic has had a challenging impact on the way businesses and sectors have needed to revise how work is undertaken, not only in the UK but across the world. Probably one of the most far reaching changes in this regard is the increasing use of technology platforms in the…
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Covid-19 insights: Hard hats must be worn in this area

I wrote recently about the Angry Mob of Covid Issues coming towards us in 2021, and the first straws in the wind are here. Life for decision makers is starting to get complex, as expected. Vaccines are delivering good news and much of the data emerging as a result of extensive deployments around the world…
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Covid-19 insights: 21 February, 2021

The Global Picture Three charts give a clear picture of the global situation and the challenge ahead. Fatalities across the globe reached a peak in late January and have been in decline over the four weeks since then. However, at the same time, the number of countries recording significant daily fatalities has risen and particularly…
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Covid 19 Insights: 13 February 2021

The Global Picture Daily fatalities have been on a rising trajectory, more than doubling since mid-October. The dip around the turn of the year was almost certainly only a lull in reporting. There has been a retreat over the last two weeks, but this has reversed in recent days. Time will tell whether this is…
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Covid-19 – It’s now an Arms Race

Readers of my postings on the pandemic will know that I have been writing about multiple and multiplying mutations for some time. I attach below the summary that I wrote almost a month ago. Mutations are the real challenge ahead. It’s now an arms race.  New and more dangerous changes are made by chance among…
Covid-19, Entrepreneurs, Executing, Investors, Management, Strategy, Trend Spotting

The angry mob of Covid issues coming in 2021

We will look back on 2020 with some nostalgia as a year when life was challenging but simple. The strategy was Hope and Cope, and this would all be over soon.  That myth will evaporate in 2021. At one level, the twelve months ahead looks like a straightforward journey with obvious steps to take in…