Welcome to IORMA Africa Juliana OlayinkaDirectorIORMA Africa The Future is Africa Africa is poised to play a pivotal role in the global economy. The continent is home to the world’s largest free trade area of over 1.2 billion people and spending by African consumers and businesses is expected to reach $5.6 trillion by 2025. Although […]
IORMA Webinar: Future of Work and Universal Basic Income (UBI) 3 September 2020 Could the convergence of an increased use of technology – such as Artificial Intelligence, Robotics or Blockchain – and the effects of the pandemic result in levels of unemployment that cause support for a Universal Basic Income (UBI) to grow stronger? View […]
Beyond Sustainability August 19 2020 David SmithChief Executive of Global Futures and Foresight, Futurist, Strategist and Keynote Speaker. ‘With 3 billion new middle-class consumers expected to be added to the global economy by 2030, conservation, recovery, and reuse are the only logical—and profitable—responses to rising resource volatility [i].’ The confluence of the sustainability imperative and eroding […]
Virtual Tour de France shows how esports has come of age during lockdown Australian Will Clarke winning the 2020 Virtual Tour de France. Zwift Andy Miah, University of Salford Elite sports events are still largely closed to the world – but July 2020 has still been an unprecedented month for the global sporting calendar thanks […]
IORMA Webinar – Market Trends: A Spotlight on the Nigerian Consumer August 2020 View the video of the webinar here: According to The Washington Post, an African country south of the Sahara has grown from 15 percent urban 60 years ago to 40 percent urban today. Urbanisation is fertile ground for consumer culture and Africa […]
All Party Parliamentary Group APPG – Facial Recognition Ross Edwards – IORMA Technology Director FACIAL AND EMOTION RECOGNITION IN SOCIETY June 8 2020 APPG AI Chairs, Stephen Metcalfe MP and Lord Clement-Jones CBE, and the Secretariat at Big Innovation Centre In his introduction Lord Clement-Jones quoted the Metropolitan police commissioner referring to facial recognition as being Orwellian. Professor […]
An introduction to IORMA consulting IORMA consulting IORMA is a network of experienced individuals who work in global consumer commerce.Our compass uses data and experience to help you navigate your world.We help our clients embrace change and deliver on their purpose by providing end-to-end software, processes and transformation services.Every challenge provides an opportunity and in […]
IORMA Webinar: The Future of Films – Big screen v Small screen July 2020 View the video of the webinar here: The lockdown has closed cinemas, halted the making of new films and the release of films ready for distribution to cinemas. Will filmgoers return to cinemas or have they found seeing films on their […]
IORMA Webinar: Reshoring – Manufacturing locally The need to strengthen and simplify UK engineering supply chains by reshoring aspects of production has been a major topic of industry debate for decades: arguably since the very point that manufacturers began outsourcing production to more competitively priced overseas economies. View the video of the webinar here: In […]
IORMA Webinar: Resetting Normality | Have we the will? The social and economic shocks of the last six months have created the opportunity to make a transition towards a socially, environmentally and economically sustainable future both necessary and possible. To achieve this end, society will have to overcome the resistance to change from vested interests […]