Dan Ilett

Dan Ilett writes The Executive Summary for CEOs and leadership teams of the FTSE 350. He advises boards on growth strategy, organisational change, AI, storytelling and commercial tactics. He chairs the City CIO Club, a private network for technology leaders. As a journalist, he has written for the Financial Times, the Economist Group, the Daily Telegraph, the New York Times and a string of tech publications. He launched several media titles including CoinDesk, where he was founding editor. Dan went on to lead transformation and advise on commercial delivery in FTSE and Fortune organisations. Dan delivers workshops for leadership teams in growth, go-to-market and AI transformation.

Breathing Space Growth

Breathing Space

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

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What mining means to your business Growth

What mining means to your business

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

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Your Biggest Time Suck: The People Pleaser Leadership

Your Biggest Time Suck: The People Pleaser

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

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Accenture: Execs say edge computing key to growth AI

Accenture: Execs say edge computing key to growth

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

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