Dan Ilett is the founder and editor of The Executive Summary, the three-times-a-week CEO newsletter read by over 1,000 chief executives. He came up through journalism, writing for the Financial Times on technology and enterprise, and was founding editor of CoinDesk, the world's leading crypto news brand and host of the Consensus conference. He also founded Greenbang, which reached 50,000 readers and was quoted by the United Nations and European Commission. His advisory has shaped $1bn in closed deals, working with IBM, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Cognizant, Equinix, UK Government and SEB on AI, storytelling, commercial performance and organisational change. He chairs the City CIO Club and advises companies through The Proposition.
Downtime
The $1tn industry you shouldn’t ignore So here’s a Sunday evening curveball for you. Have you ever thought of working in space? Not as an astronaut, but leading your industry there to create new products or services. The pharmaceutical industry is already developing drugs in space to take
Leadership
Succession vs success… There are many new faces at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 28) this year – and herein lies an underlying problem in tackling multi-decade projects: CEO tenure. This is not just for sustainability, but leadership and teams in general. It’s well known that
Growth
Investors look for greater revenue potential A shift in value creation priorities is changing investment decisions… Private equity investing is based on majority share ownership of companies where the investor – or general partner – can make active decisions in the company they have
Wellbeing
Glass half full or empty? What are CEOs thinking today? It’s not pretty, according to Deloitte and Fortune in their 2023 winter CEO survey (104 CEOs). Here are the key takeaways from Fortune (paywall): * 48% of CEOs are pessimistic about the global economy * 36% expect growth to be strong.
Wellbeing
Breathing Space The operating environment 1 – The interest rate shows no sign of coming down, putting pressure on sources of funding and customers’ ability to buy. This is a huge challenge for growth and survival as UK insolvencies hit their highest numbers since 2009 2 – The Bank of
Growth
Supply chain stories Morning there While renewable energy investment hit $358 in H1 this year, manufacturers require higher amounts of the metals required to build those new energy technologies. This means while mining for fossil fuels could slow, mining rates are increasing and will
Leadership
Be Direct How many times have you heard: “Oh, I love this. We’ll do something.” Too many. Then you spend the next few weeks chasing for the next meeting. And nothing. There is something about people pleasers that prevents them from telling the truth. They could just say: “I like it, but
AI
Foundational to useful AI strategies Edge computing is the use of any type of computer program that delivers low latency nearer to the requests Accenture researched sentiment towards edge adoption across 2,100 C-level executives in 18 industries across 16 countries. Findings: * Edge is set
