Are your people P.E.O.P.L.E.?
August is for many people a quieter work month or one where you take some well-deserved holiday, farmers excepted! As such I thought I would pen a few words on one of my passions i
Are you and your property investment data fit for purpose?
Time For A Change In Direction? One of the main characteristics of this last real estate investment cycle has been the growth in cross border capital flows that has had a huge impa
Why Westminster can’t save the UK high street
Guest blog by Bill Grimsey. First appeared in Daily Telegraph on 4th July 2018 when #GrimseyReview2 was launched at the Local Government Association conference in Birmingham, UK. M
The Grimsey Review 2 (2018)
The Grimsey Review 2 ‘It’s time to reshape our town centres’ was published in July 2018. It is a ‘five years on’ follow up to the 2013 Grimsey Review
Who is leading change in your organisation – technology, data or people?
The answer should be people leading change empowered by technology and data. The reality is that in many organisations people are not sufficiently skilled to harness the power of t
Data science and technology is identifying the needs for over a million Electric Vehicles in the UK
This is a guest blog by Alice Goudie from Emu Analytics, a massively innovative and capable company in London, that shows how data science, mapping and analysis will help drive a b
Data in action that is creating a vibrant Belgian town
In 2013 I was involved in co-authoring The Grimsey Review – An alternative future for our high streets. Again in 2018 we are doing #GrimseyReview2 which will look at the firs
Where is Roeselare and why are the #GrimseyReview2 team visiting it this week- part 1
This week four members of the #GrimseyReview2 team will visit a town in Belgium. Why I hear you ask? It might seem odd in this time of BREXIT getting all the attention that a team
Grimsey Review 1 – what were the recommendations?
As I sit down to write the data and evidence chapter with considerably more material than in 2013 I am drawn to what we wrote in 2013 and ask myself; What has changed? A lot has ch
What does today’s news tells us about the form and function of place?
Today, 11th April 2018, is an interesting day in terms of data around companies and places in the UK. The most anticipated news was around Tesco’s latest results. In addition