INSIGHTS
Urban Startup Lab from Fronesys promotes critical entrepreneurship skills in Milton Keynes
Urban Start Up Lab is a practical and hugely interactive course from Fronesys that will give entrepreneurs not just the theory but also the practical tools that are proven to help technology startups develop into successful business ventures. The course,...
The information architecture for business – the case for integrated thinking
At an April FEE/IIRC event in Brussels, Jyoti Banerjee spoke about the way integrated thinking creates a single information architecture that works across strategy and planning, operations, performance management and disclosure. Here are some excerpts from...
How to embed integrated thinking into your organisation
Integrated thinking, and its close cousin Integrated Reporting, are both gaining global impetus. We asked Fronesys associate Natalya Sverjensky to unpack the virtuous cycle that drives performance. It is an increasingly mainstream view that reporting has...
Why investors are seeking practical wisdom
As increasing amounts of financial capital pour into companies disclosing more on their ESG performance, we asked Fronesys associate Brigitte Herren to discern the drivers behind this investment approach which has, hitherto, been an esoteric fragment of...
Fronesys services for our corporate clients
Every organisation embarking on the journey to integrated thinking will be asking the following questions: How do we create value now and in the future? What is material to our success? Is our business model aligned to effectively deliver on our value...
The most sustainable Super Bowl ever? Where’s the proof?
Fronesys associate Thomas Odenwald was part of the Super Bowl 50 sub-committee, and we asked him to recap his experience of their mission to make Super Bowl 50 the ‘…most sustainable, most giving, most inclusive’ Super Bowl event ever. Is that what really...
Contextual reporting connects the Integrated Report to company data
It used to be that the only information available on a company was the information made available by the company. Typically, this information was delivered in the form of an annual report. Although annual reports got larger and weightier, today they are no...
Fronesys and the Open University collaborate to create an urban data course for startups
The hardest part of starting a new technology business is taking the first step. This is made doubly difficult when the start-up's big new idea relates to making sense of the increasing mountain of urban data produced by Smart City initiatives (like...
Startups and SMEs in Smart Cities
Entrepreneurship tools and principles to exploit urban data Jyoti Banerjee & Gerd Kortuem The hardest part of starting a new technology business is taking the first step. This is made doubly difficult when the new ideas relate to Smart Cities, a new...
IIRC announces Technology Initiative
Leading companies providing technology solutions are joining forces to look at how technology can underpin new trends in corporate reporting, and in particular can be applied to assist in the global adoption of Integrated Reporting <IR>. Launched...