Nadeem Rizvi
Gambling on the Future
The electric car company Tesla recently (and briefly) overtook General Motors as America’s most valued car maker. more
May 23, 2017 10:36 AM nadeem rizvi blog
The World Outside the Box
It’s fair to say that the recent award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Bob Dylan came as a major surprise to most people. more
Dec 8, 2016 9:43 AM nadeem rizvi blog
A Matter of Trust
It is a generally-held belief that businesses do not like uncertainty and although economies throughout the world have been turbulent for some time now, the recent UK vote to leave the EU has only worsened this situation. more
Jul 28, 2016 9:45 PM nadeem rizvi blog
Survival of the Quickest
During most of the 20th century the small, yellow Kodak film can was recognisable throughout the world. more
Aug 28, 2014 11:29 AM nadeem rizvi blog
The World Outside the Box
It’s fair to say that the recent award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Bob Dylan came as a major surprise to most people. more
Dec 8, 2016 9:43 AM nadeem rizvi blog
Obsolescence — The Saviour of High Tech Giants?
There are over seven billion humans on Earth and this number is steadily rising at a rate of a few extra people per second. more
Oct 18, 2016 4:29 PM nadeem rizvi blog
Innovating the Future
Many people have great ideas but very few make a success of those ideas in terms of making their inventions useful or getting a return on their inventiveness. more
Sep 7, 2016 4:44 PM nadeem rizvi blog
Small Steps or Big Leaps
It is amazing to think that the sun delivers more energy to the Earth’s surface in one hour than is used by the world’s population in one year. more
May 17, 2016 4:45 PM nadeem rizvi blog
Laser Micro Manufacturing: Paths to Production
Micro manufacturing is expanding into an ever-widening number of industries and applications. more
Feb 4, 2016 3:35 PM machining
Bursting Bubbles in the Real World
Unicorns only used to be found as mythical beasts in ancient folklore but in the past few years the term has increasingly been applied to high-tech start-up companies who achieve a valuation of at least a billion dollars. more
Nov 27, 2015 2:29 PM nadeem rizvi blog
Technology Drives the Future
There has been a lot of recent interest in driverless cars and much debate about whether we are ready to lose control of driving on the roads. more
Oct 16, 2015 3:09 PM nadeem rizvi blog
Spotlight on the Ultra-Small
By definition micro technology deals with the miniature world but one of the unexpected side-effects of this is that it is often very difficult to convey the scale of things to others. more
Sep 29, 2015 4:23 PM nadeem rizvi blog
Roadmaps to the Future
It is now 50 years since Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, had the foresight to make the observation that has since become known as Moore’s Law. more
Aug 27, 2015 10:22 AM nadeem rizvi blog
Disruptive Technologies Take Their Time
We live in an incremental world. Very few things in technology are truly revolutionary, no matter how hard the marketing people might like to convince us otherwise. more
May 26, 2015 3:02 PM nadeem rizvi blog
Drowning in Data
Data is everywhere and whatever we do we are contributing to an information explosion. more
Apr 10, 2015 2:13 PM nadeem rizvi blog
Winning on Your Own Terms
There must be hundreds of self-help and motivational management guides out there and lots of them end up using sports metaphors as a seemingly clever short-hand for how to think and behave in business. more
Mar 6, 2015 4:23 PM nadeem rizvi blog
Research — From Deep Space to Blue Skies
The recent success in confirming the existence of the Higgs particle at CERN is an amazing achievement for experimental physics. more
Dec 12, 2014 4:22 PM nadeem rizvi blog
Keeping Business in Perspective
When the Voyager 1 spacecraft was in the farthest reaches of the Solar System and about to head off into interstellar space, NASA decided to use some of the craft’s dwindling energy to do something that had little scientific merit. more
Oct 30, 2014 2:20 PM nadeem rizvi blog
Risky Business
The best risk assessments are those which are done continually as part of normal work programmes so that they don’t become something to dread or, even worse, avoid. more
Sep 24, 2014 3:18 PM nadeem rizvi blog
Out with the Old?
We live in a digital world. All around us we can see the evidence of the changes which modern technology has brought about and the way in which we interact with our world has completely changed in less than a generation. more
Jun 5, 2014 3:14 PM nadeem rizvi blog
All Smoke and Mirrors?
The success of the film Gravity at the recent BAFTAs and Oscars for its special effects was seen as a triumph for the British Film Industry and those of you who have seen the film will no doubt concur that the visual effects were indeed amazing. more
Apr 11, 2014 11:56 AM nadeem rizvi blog
The Shape of Things to Come
Technology trends come and go and the high-tech world is littered with ‘next big things’ that have not yet quite made it big (or made it all). more
Feb 10, 2014 1:07 PM nadeem rizvi blog
There’s Value in Staying Local
In the past decade, a lot of companies have thought unquestioningly that moving manufacturing to lower-cost territories was the only way to remain competitive globally. Nadeem Rizvi asks if this has to be the case. more
Nov 21, 2013 3:40 PM nadeem rizvi blog