Virtual marketplaces: The lifeblood of the virtual economy In our last blog, we introduced the virtual economy and showed how fast-growing, diverse and at times opaque different elements of this online ecosystem can be. In this post, I will explore virtual marketplaces — the backbone of the virtual economy —…

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored just how fragile our real-world economy is when the systems and behaviours that underpin our daily lives are disrupted. However, it has also demonstrated the power of the virtual economy. Millions of people across the world have responded to the pandemic by transitioning their usual…

In an age of accelerated change and increasing complexity, analytical foresight can help us anticipate and contextualise the future John Egan, CEO of L’Atelier Analytical foresight, the discipline of anticipating the consequences of changes today to the status quo tomorrow, is little understood outside of academic and specialist circles —…