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Our archive of project updates, articles and opinion pieces by our partners about the Future of Work, Technology and their individual work experiences and passions.
Exploring Creativity and Showing Your Work
One of the recurring themes that comes up in conversations I have with people at work, at conferences, and online is, “How can we be more creative in our work?” The ability to solve problems, and add value through new ways of working is always in demand, yet...
Getting ready for GDPR
Ethos culture seeks to drive three key values in all it does; Trust, Moderation and Collaboration. We also believe strongly that individuals should be empowered with control over their own data. Almost all our deliverables in projects are digital or substantially so,...
GEOmii on show at Innovate 2016
GEOmii, Ethos’ future cities business, has been selected to showcase its urban intelligence systems at the UK’s largest exhibition of cutting edge innovations. GEOmii was one of 100 businesses nationwide to be selected for Innovate 2016, which takes place in...
The Prisoner
The reminder goes off on your electronic calendar, buzzing like a tiny wasp in a jar. You check your crackberry nervously for two reasons. 1: You have a phobia about wasps, and 2: It’s performance review time. You’ve had the initial review with your manager and agreed...
Wow. Larry. Wow.
It seems that Ethos is in demand. Second visit in two weeks to 10 Downing Street. A central government department wanting weekly updates on a project to re-imagine how the elderly engage with them. A metropolitan city council wanting us to help them solve their...
SkillsPlanner at Number 10
A personal landmark and also one for SkillsPlanner. This month saw a meeting with the Policy Unit at Number 10 Downing Street, attended by myself, Scott Young (Tideway, right) and fellow Ethos partner Colin Middleton (who heads up the SkillsPlanner councils and...
Blockchain for dummies
A number of the better connected and more technically-savvy of our partners have been throwing about terms like ‘Bitcoin’, ‘Ethereum’ and ‘Blockchain’ with increasing frequency lately, so I volunteered to write a blog post, to help myself, and hopefully others,...
Leading People In A Disrupted World
This blog post is based around a talk titled ‘Leading People In A Disrupted World’, given by Lucy Adams at the PPMA summit in Birmingham, on June 23rd 2016. Lucy Adams used to be HR Director at The BBC, then this happened. In her post BBC world, Lucy Adams refers to...
How to Be Kind
I thought these few thoughts from my daughter Keira a couple of years ago (then aged 8) on how to be kind were worth publishing again, in these uncertain post-EU referendum times. Keira asked to draw her blog post – here it is, she and I hope you like it. How To Be...
100 Ethos VOices
Ethos recently celebrated 100 editions of our regular newsletter. To mark the occasion we trawled all 100 editions, pulled out our favourite moments and put them together in a timeline that covers the Ethos journey and evolution over the last five years. Click pic...
Ethos on Acid
On Wednesday I attended an all day workshop/game at the Centre for Ageing Better. The event was the brainchild of Paddy Hanrahan and Tris Lumley. The idea? To create a £2m fund and ecosystem to pilot bringing together key stakeholders in this area in order to provide...
A new brand from Ethos Sport
Ethos is excited to announce the launch of ‘Team Ethos’ a new brand which gives sponsors the broader option of supporting ALL forces sport. The Team Army brand, established by Ethos in 2011, will remain aligned to Army sport while the new Team Ethos mark will be...
Collaboration and the great Bulldog
Last night I went to an event hosted by the Bulldog Trust in partnership with New Philanthropy Capital. Their building is next to Temple Tube opposite the HMS Wellington where we have held numerous Ethos events. The inside of the building is clad with rather splendid...
Is Guildford Now Europe’s Smartest Town?
Guildford, in Surrey, UK, the childhood home of computer pioneer Alan Turing, has quietly leapfrogged many larger conurbations to become Europe's smartest town by piloting the world's first multi-sensor, multi-asset integrated parking and retail area system, designed...