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Urban Startup Lab from Fronesys promotes critical entrepreneurship skills in Milton Keynes

2016-11-11T10:59:00+00:00

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, which is part of the MK:Smart project, is suited to entrepreneurs from a range of backgrounds, from software through to engineering and design.

The information architecture for business - the case for integrated thinking

2016-05-02T07:36:00+01:00

At a FEE/IIRC event in Brussels in April, 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 his talk.

How to embed integrated thinking into your organisation

2016-03-16T21:06:42+00:00

Demand is growing from shareholders and stakeholders for the board to articulate a clear strategy for creating longer-term value, as well as the metrics to support it. Alongside this, the rise of non-financials is broadening the reporting landscape. Now more than ever before, companies and their stakeholders need the practical wisdom to understand and define value creation in a holistic way.

Why investors are seeking practical wisdom

2016-02-29T20:31:00+00:00

Despite a growing movement among investors, practical approaches showing how companies include ESG metrics into their decision making and reporting are still meagre. For example, nearly 700 of the 1600 firms that are part of the MSCI World Index, do not disclose key environmental data. What can an individual investor, who sees the connection between ESG and financial performance, do about promoting disclosures?

The most sustainable Super Bowl ever? Where's the proof?

2016-02-15T21:18:00+00:00

Several Super Bowl events have already claimed to be carbon-neutral. So could Super Bowl 50 stand out by being Net Positive? Thomas Odenwald had a ring-side seat of the integrated thinking that took place at Super Bowl 50.

Contextual reporting connects the Integrated Report to company data

2015-09-01T22:13:00+01:00

When we read an integrated report, we should be able to find the underlying data that gives us insight on a company’s strategy and its business model. Conversely, when we delve into large sets of corporate data, we should be able to understand how material that information is to the risks and opportunities facing the company.

Fronesys and the Open University collaborate to create an urban data course for startups

2015-05-17T20:00:10+01:00

The latest collaboration between The Open University and Fronesys, as part of the MK:Smart programme, has produced a one day course geared toward start-ups with an interest in learning about how to exploit commercial opportunities around urban data.

IIRC announces Technology Initiative

2014-11-25T08:56:00+00:00

The Integrated Reporting Technology Initiative, launched by the International Integrated Reporting Council, will build a deep understanding of how technology can be applied to assist adopters of on both sides of the report production and consumption value chain. Fronesys partner Jyoti Banerjee is leading the programme.

Fronesys promotes Smart Cities impact analysis at the World Bank

2014-11-17T09:13:00+00:00

At the World Bank in Washington DC, Fronesys partner Jyoti Banerjee called for a new approach to integrating together the impacts of cities, which enabled a meaningful assessment of how a city creates value, who creates that value, and for whom that value is created.

"Real" Smart Cities challenges facing city leaders

2014-09-23T10:21:00+01:00

Smart Cities is all about the application of smart technology to the problems of a city. That is what the "noise" on the streets seems to indicate. Jyoti Banerjee, partner at Fronesys, disagrees: "Technology is not the key that drives success in Smart Cities. Instead, we need smart decisions in a number of different areas: organisational, finance, impacts and so on."