Digital continues to have a profound effect on the world. The way we live, the way we work and the way we relate to one another is changing faster than ever as a result of digital technologies, processes and capabilities.

The UK’s huge unemployment crisis is just beginning, and it is becoming clear that young people are going to be hugely impacted.

I had the pleasure of attending a recent webinar hosted by the Conservative Friends of the Armed Forces network.

Innovation isn’t working. At least, the old style of innovation isn’t. It can’t be – look at the number of established, iconic brands that have fallen foul of disruption over the past few years.

World Youth Skills Day (15th July) comes as youth unemployment is soaring due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

These turbulent times might not look like the best time to invest in your workforce: an uncertain economic future paired with unpredictable future skills needs make it a risk that may not seem worth taking.

The overly optimistic amongst us may be thinking that returning to conventional working will be easy. But the situation we’re in, truly is unprecedented.

Perhaps surprisingly, a huge number of companies have adapted to the changes necessitated by the threat of Covid-19 and have recognised some of the benefits of a flexible workforce.

While Covid has put the brakes on a lot of things – normal schooling, visiting family and friends, holidays and music festivals, commuting and meetings in the office, it has enabled and accelerated the uptake and development of a number of other trends.

IoT ecosystems are underpinning more and more services across the UK. Before we look at cyber security in an IoT context, it’s worth recounting how we arrived in a connected world.