How to digital self-assess with EFEC Futures By Design
For business, it is digitise or die. But what to do? How to do it? Where to start? Wouldn’t it be good to know what the options are, have an idea how others are digitising, get a picture of what to do next? The good news: this is where EFEC Futures By Design (FBD) can […]
Maersk to build first green and smart flagship logistics centre in Lin-gang, Shanghai
Maersk, a leading global logistics company, signed the Land Grant Contract with the administrative committee of Lingang new area of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone in late December 2022. This marks the official start of Maersk’s first green and smart flagship logistics centre in China with low or very low greenhouse gas emissions. With a […]
HELPING SMALL BUSINESSES TO GROW BY DIGITSING BETTER
EFEC is leading the UK capitalisation phase of the ‘Futures By Design (FBD) project. FBD is an EU Interreg Project, devised and led BY Andrew Thomson, EFEC CSO. It worked with over 1000 SMEs in 5 countries over 4 years, helping them to understand more about the ways digitising can help generate cash, cut losses, […]
Telegram:@hacker_Hongts
Telegram:@hacker_Hongts Singapore has shown the world that digital twins can make a difference in urban governance and development. In the summer of 12 years ago, two periods of 100mm torrential rain hit Orchard Road in Singapore in a very short period of time. The world-renowned shopping paradise suffered serious flooding for the first time in […]
RECYCLING INTO THE FUTURE
‘Times change, values don’t’ ran an old advertising slogan for The Times. That was in the 1980s – decades later we are in The Age of Change. I grew up in the 1970s, when a common phrase to describe the way the western world then lived was, ‘the throwaway society’. And it was a pretty […]
AI – Sounds Scarier Than it Actually Is
Futures By Design (FBD) is an EU Interreg Project for the North Sea Region that helps companies grow game slot, improve productivity and innovate by digitising and using data better. Andrew Thomson, EFEC CSO, took his original idea and developed a team of 12 EU partner organisations to set up FBD, which he now directs. […]
Drones Delivering the Future
Futures By Design is an EU Interreg Project conceived, designed, and co-ordinated by Andrew Thomson, EFEC CSO. One of the things Futures By Design has been doing is creating a ‘Horizon Scanning and Knowledge Transfer’ service for SMEs to help see the future coming better. Part of the service is to help busy business leaders […]
EFEC HELPING CHINA BUSINESSES TO SET UP IN UK
EFEC is delighted to announce the launch of a service, CHINA INTO UK, helping Chinese business with sourcing products and partners in the UK and / or locating into the UK. Setting up business in the UK is straightforward – but there are rules incoming companies need to understand and things can become difficult if […]