FREE NOW, Ireland’s leading multi-mobility app reported an increase in demand for more sustainable transport options. There is a 630% increase in demand for its ECO booking service in the first quarter of 2022. Launched in major cities across Ireland last year, the ECO booking option allows passengers to choose more sustainable transport options by selecting a hybrid or electric taxi on the app at no extra cost.

The initiative forms part of FREE NOW’s ambition of achieving 50% fully electric vehicle rides by 2025 and being the first mobility platform in Europe to reach Net-Zero emissions by 2030.

Ahead of World Earth Day on the 22nd of April, FREE NOW has also announced that it has added over 600 EVs to its fleet since the start of 2021 and a third of the fleet is now electric or hybrid compared to 24% in 2022. FREE NOW expects to have 1,120 EVs on the road by the end of 2022.

Sustainable Transport

It’s not only passengers driving the demand for more eco-friendly transport. Recent research of FREE NOW driver partners reveals that of those that currently drive a hybrid or EV, 41% made the switch for environmental reasons while 37% made the switch due to cheaper running costs. In addition, 70% of driver partners say they are in favour of increased electrification of taxi fleets to help the sector reach its carbon reduction goal.

Commenting on the increase in demand for its Eco booking service, Fiona Brady, Head of Public Affairs and Operations, FREE NOW said: “Since launching our ECO booking option last year, we have seen a significant increase in demand for this service in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway. This surge in bookings is driven by the increased availability of hybrid and EV vehicles on our app as well as the continued growing demand for more sustainable options from our passengers.

Supporting the national effort to develop a more sustainable transport system across Ireland is a crucial part of our agenda and the success of the ECO booking and the increased electrification of our fleet is another milestone in helping us reach our sustainability targets.

We are also working closely with our driver-partners to support them in making the switch to electric. Last year we invested 6 million euros to help taxi drivers across the country purchase home chargers for EVs and this year we are hosting EV roadshows across the country to educate drivers on the benefits of switching to electric.”

Over 170,000 Tons of CO2 Emissions Offset

FREE NOW is also working with Climate Partner to develop offset projects to compensate for the current output of CO2 emissions produced by both the company and its services.

In total, FREE NOW is offsetting 173,000 tons of CO2 emissions with three projects in Madre de Dios, Peru (dedicated to protecting a threatened piece of the Amazon); in Indonesia (extending wind energy in the region and developing rural areas); and in Europe (supporting the afforestation and the change of local forests by the regional tree.

NASA‘s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will swing by Earth to deliver a sample from asteroid Bennu on Sept. 24, 2023. But it won’t clock out after that.

NASA has extended the University of Arizona-led mission, which will be renamed OSIRIS-APEX, to study near-Earth asteroid Apophis for 18 months. Apophis will make a close approach to Earth in 2029.

The University of Arizona will lead the mission, which will make its first manoeuvre toward Apophis 30 days after the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivers the sample it collected from Bennu back in October 2020. At that point, the original mission team will split – the sample analysis team will analyze the Bennu sample, while the spacecraft and instrument team transitions to OSIRIS-APEX, which is short for OSIRIS-Apophis Explorer.

Nasa’s OSIRIS-REx

Regents Professor of Planetary Sciences Dante Lauretta will remain the principal investigator of OSIRIS-REx through the remaining two-year sample return phase of the mission. Planetary sciences assistant professor and OSIRIS-REx deputy principal investigator Dani DellaGiustina will then become the principal investigator of OSIRIS-APEX. The extension adds another $200 million to the mission cost cap.

The mission team did an exhaustive search for potential asteroid targets. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was built for what’s called a rendezvous mission, meaning instead of making a single flyby of an object and quickly snapping images and collecting data, it was designed to “get up close and personal with the object.” DellaGiustina said. “Our spacecraft is really phenomenal at that.”

“Apophis is one of the most infamous asteroids,” DellaGiustina said. “When it was first discovered in 2004, there was concern that it would impact the Earth in 2029 during its close approach. That risk was retired after subsequent observations, but it will be the closest an asteroid of this size has gotten in the 50 or so years asteroids have been closely tracked, or for the next 100 years of asteroids, we have discovered so far.”

“It gets within one-tenth the distance between the Earth and the moon during the 2029 encounter. People in Europe and Africa will be able to see it with the naked eye, that’s how close it will get. We were stoked to find out the mission was extended.”

OSIRIS-REx was launched in 2016 to collect a sample from Bennu that will help scientists learn about the formation of the solar system and Earth as a habitable planet. OSIRIS-REx is the first NASA mission to collect and return a sample from a near-Earth asteroid.

OSIRIS-APEX will not collect a sample, but when it reaches Apophis, it will study the asteroid for 18 months and collect data along the way. It also will make a manoeuvre similar to the one it made during sample collection at Bennu, by approaching the surface and firing its thrusters. This event will expose the asteroid’s subsurface, to allow mission scientists to learn more about the asteroid’s material properties.

Composition of the Asteroid

The scientists also want to study how the asteroid will be physically affected by the gravitational pull of Earth as it makes its close approach in 2029.

They also want to learn more about the composition of the asteroid. Apophis is about the same size as Bennu – nearly 1000 feet at its longest point – but it differs in what’s called its spectral type. Bennu is a B-type asteroid linked to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, whereas Apophis is an S-type asteroid linked to ordinary chondrite meteorites.

“The OSIRIS-REx mission has already achieved so many firsts and I am proud it will continue to teach us about the origins of our solar system,” said University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins. “The OSIRIS-APEX mission extension keeps the University of Arizona in the lead as one of the premier institutions in the world to study small bodies with spacecraft and demonstrates again our incredible capacity in space sciences.”

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Twitch has been out there for almost a decade and it reached the status of the leading live streaming platform in the world. Since the platform gets around 35 million visitors per month, many small businesses use it to boost their own performance, and here are some tips that can help you do the same.

Set Goals

If you decide to include streaming in your marketing strategy, you need to start by setting goals and working on a plan that will help you reach them. When you start defining the goals, make sure you keep them measurable. For example, if you start with the desire to increase the number of subscribers, that is a poorly defined goal. Instead, you should aim for a specific number of subscribers you would like to have before a particular date. Besides being measurable and time-restricted, the goals should also work well with the rest of your marketing strategy.

Reach Your Audience and Interact

Interaction is one of the top benefits of using twitch since the streamer can use live chat to communicate with the viewers throughout every stream. Whatever your niche is, you should make use of the chat window to engage with the audience. For example, if you have a casino website, you should consider the use of live streaming dealers who can help you reach a wider audience and get in touch with them. Businesses that respond immediately are rewarded by getting a loyal fanbase in a short period of time. That is why you should also go a step further and start watching the streams launched by your followers so you can expand the engagement. By doing so, you will show your followers that you are genuinely interested in their thoughts and opinions.

Open a Branded Channel

Opening a branded channel on Twitch is a sure way to increase brand awareness. You can use the channel to host regular live streams where the existing clients and new leads can join, or organize special thematic events for the followers. For example, you can invite the stakeholders to live interviews where they can talk about the future plans of the business and answer questions sent by the viewers. A channel of your own will help you form a community of people around the brand, and as time goes by, it will ignite the fear of missing out among them, since your followers will quickly learn that the content shared on Twitch cannot be seen on other platforms.

Launch Twitch Ads

Creating a paid ad campaign on Twitch is a great way to diversify your marketing strategy by choosing one of the two types of formats available: in-video ads and banners. Video ads, for example, are quite popular among businesses, and they can only be shown on the channels of Twitch Partner accounts. The ad material can be shown at any point before the stream begins, in the middle of it, or at the very end. Before your team creates the ads, think about why the viewers are actually there and what tone will suit them the best. Most of the time, the audience is there seeking entertainment, so the ads too should be energetic, lighthearted, and fun. Twitch is definitely not a platform that welcomes heavy topics and content that is difficult to process emotionally.

Use Influencer Marketing

Twitch has gathered a large number of live streamers and some of them managed to attract millions of fans with their content, which makes them the ideal candidates for influencer marketing campaigns. It starts with brands reaching out to the streamers that fit their voice, proposing a collaboration, and a creator will typically promote the business to their audience through a live stream. Types of collaborations that are commonly used in influencer marketing are sweepstakes, product unboxing, giveaways, and brand shoutouts. If you arrange such partnerships, not only that your business will get in front of thousands or even millions of engaged viewers, but it will also add more authenticity to your campaigns.

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We look at this book by Joan Ball. You can see more about Stop, Ask, Explore, Learn to Navigate Change in Times of Uncertainty on the Kogan Page website here.

Stop, Ask, Explore Learn to Navigate Change in Times of Uncertainty Joan P. Ball, reviewed

This is a relevant book for sure. The world navigates two years of a global pandemic, only to then find that Russia wants to start world war three on the spurious pretext of denazifying Ukraine and their Jewish premier – yes it is a crazy premise for sure. This book was naturally written before that particular war broke out, but you can see where the author is coming from.

Is it even possible to navigate chaos? How on earth do you do that? The authors have chosen a challenging, but relevant topic to tackle. We enjoyed their attempt to come up with solutions and strategies, though some might it is like trying to pin jelly to the wall. Even so it is no harm to at least be prepared and able to adapt and deal with uncertainly, change and messy situations.

This book is thought provoking, some of the solutions might even be helpful, and, in this day and age, we all probably need as many tools in our toolbox as possible. We will probably see more and more books like this, but this one has certainly appeared at and apt and relevant time for us all.

More about Joan P. Ball

Joan P. Ball is a tenured associate professor of Marketing at St. Johns University in New York City, a researcher and a leadership coach. Joan works with emerging and established leaders to help them learn to navigate flux, build resilience and develop an experimental mindset when faced with tricky transitions. She is the founder of WOMB Service Design Lab, a research consultancy where she works with individuals, teams and organizations to develop new tools and approaches to help leader navigate uncertain transitions and teach others to do the same. She has worked with people and teams at companies like Verizon Media, Capital One, Herman Miller, and New York City’s Centre for Social Innovation.

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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Ørsted, the global leader in renewable energy, hosted an expert panel discussion highlighting the importance of renewable energy projects. The panel discussed the immediate need to accelerate renewable energy projects to ensure energy security.

The Future of Clean Energy: Harnessing Partnerships and Policy event, which took place at University College Cork (UCC), was organised as part of Governor Murphy’s economic mission to Ireland to strengthen economic and cultural ties and promote business investments in New Jersey.

Potential of Offshore Wind Energy

Commenting on the shared experience of New Jersey and Ireland when it comes to the potential of offshore wind energy, Governor Murphy said: “New Jersey is already experiencing the devastating impacts of climate change, and we must meet these challenges with bold, intentional action. Through my Administration, New Jersey has one of the most aggressive solicitation schedules for the offshore wind industry, setting a goal of 7,500 megawatts by 2035.

“There is no other renewable energy resource that provides us with the electric generation or the economic growth potential of offshore wind. To aid our efforts, we are constructing an offshore wind component manufacturing facility and also building the New Jersey Wind Port, which will make us the logistics hub for the offshore wind industry along the entirety of the eastern United States.”

“In addition to creating the infrastructure necessary to achieve our goals, we have also established critical job training programs and are building a diverse workforce to support good-paying jobs. We are taking on these efforts not just because we know it’s the right thing for our planet’s long-term sustainability, but it’s also the smart thing to do for New Jersey’s long-term economic viability.”

Kieran White, VP Ørsted Europe Onshore, said: “With the climate crisis and rising energy costs continuing to dominate headlines, the time for action on the clean energy transition is now. The Irish Government has set a target for 80% of electricity to be generated from renewable sources by 2030. For these targets to be met, we need significant investment in new infrastructure, more dedicated resources and targeted reforms to our planning and regulatory frameworks in order to accelerate the delivery of renewable energy projects. Events such as today are also vital, leveraging strategic partnerships globally to share information, learnings and experiences.”

Renewable Energy

Mr White added: “Renewable energy generated from the sustainable resources we have access to right here in Ireland delivers long-term energy security at an affordable cost. The technologies required to achieve this transformation already exist – it is now up to the policymakers, businesses and individuals to take decisive action to enable that shift.”

President & CEO of Choose New Jersey, New Jersey’s leading nonprofit economic development organisation, Wesley Mathews added: “The global clean energy industry is quickly recognising New Jersey as a leader in climate action and offshore wind. Because of Governor Murphy’s leadership, New Jersey will be greener, and our economy will thrive as companies like Ørsted invest in historic clean energy projects. Choose New Jersey is focused on growing our state’s clean energy sector, and we look forward to working with more domestic and international clean energy businesses to help them set up shop here in New Jersey.”

Topics discussed and debated at the event included lessons learned to date in the transition to clean energy, how organisations can realistically reach net-zero, where investment is needed, and how government policy can support a decarbonised energy system. Other panellists included Dr Hannah Daly, lecturer in sustainable energy systems modelling at UCC, Dave Linehan, Head of Research at Wind Energy Ireland, and Tim Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer of the New Jersey Economic Development Authorit...

Most digital transformations fail. According to IDC, worldwide spending on digital transformation technologies (hardware, software, and services) is expected to be more than $2.1T in 2021. Yet, of the S$1.3T that was spent in 2018, it is estimated that $900B went to waste (Tabrizi et al., 2019). While spending on digital transformation has skyrocketed globally, most research shows that few digital transformations achieve their desired results (Bendor-Samuel, 2019; Wade, 2018; Solis, 2020; Rogers, 2016; Kitani, 2019; Sutcliff, Narsalay, and Sen, 2019; McKinsey & Company, 2016; Boutetie?re, Montagner, and Reich, 2018; Deakin, LaBerge, and O’Beirne, 2019).

A 2019 survey of 1,000 C-level executives by Celonis supports the call for a more holistic approach, as it was found that almost one in two don’t know where to start, with 4 out of 10 confirming that their transformation has been a waste of time. “It’s a matter of leaping before they look”, with “70% intending to invest in AI, machine learning and automation and yet only 32% intend to invest more in getting better visibility of their processes” (McKendrick, 2019).

Role in Digital Transformation

What do senior leaders in incumbent organisations get wrong about their role in digital transformation that results in such high failure rates? When you trace the origin of such failures, the root cause tends to lead back to one thing most leaders are not doing today; focus on the how, and not just on the why and what.

The success of most transformations lies in the how

The way businesses compete has changed dramatically in the past two decades, aided by the pervasiveness of the internet, availability of low-cost computing power and the outsourcing of manufacturing. This has led to a significant narrowing of the knowledge gap, a significant ability to copy products, an increased ability to scale globally, and massive choice in the hands of customers.

The “why” you should transform, achieve higher customer advocacy, better experience and increase productivity is no longer a key differentiator. Only the late majority of incumbent laggards are still asking this question. On the other hand, “what” you need to do, tends to suffer from over generalisation, so much so that the answers are very cliché, e.g. “hire the best”, “adopt the latest and greatest”, “get buy-in from the top”, etc, and mostly known to one and all.

The key to most transformations today is thus in the “how”; how do you design your experience and processes, before you digitalise or apply the right technology solutions. The figure below illustrates this with an example from building great buildings.

When you build a great building, you don’t first showcase the builder. Then, why is it that most transformations tend to showcase the “builder”, which is inevitably about digital or technology?

To build a great building, you first engage the best architect. The equivalent in your digital transformation is the chief designer of your products, services and operating and business model requirements. This person is pivotal to your success, and you should not start your transformation without clearly understanding who can and going to play this key role.

Then, there is the civil engineer, who ensures that the building can stand on its own. The equivalent in your transformation is your process team. Things often go wrong today because the process is overlooked and not robust. The process is crucial in translating your requirements into well-written stories for development. Similarly, digital transformation is not mostly about technology. It’s about orchestrating how you design, how you create new processes and re-engineer old ones, and finally how you apply digital and technology to operate these processes faster, and with fewer errors.

Naturally, you need a good builder, but the best builder with an incompetent architect and civil engineer won’t help you build the best building. Why then, do so many leaders think it can? This is a ma...

STENTiT, a medical device company bringing a novel class of regenerative endovascular implants for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, has closed a €1.8 million seed investment round. The funding facilitates further pre-clinical development and batch production of a regenerative stent for peripheral indications. The investment was made by Dutch investors NextGen Ventures, Brabant Development Agency (BOM) and the Ten Cate Investment Company.

STENTiT

STENTiT is an emerging player in the field of regenerative medical devices, offering a breakthrough solution for cardiovascular interventions by developing first-of-its-kind endovascular implants with regenerative capacity. Using a catheter-based approach, these devices provide the ability to restore arteries without the need for an invasive surgical intervention. The aim is to ultimately restore the affected blood vessel from the inside out to provide a lifelong solution.

As a first target indication, the company wants to improve the treatment of critical limb ischemia. This progressive form of peripheral artery disease affects almost 5 million people in the EU and the US in which the blood flow to the foot is severely being compromised. Unfortunately, current treatment options are ineffective, resulting in amputation within 6 months in 40% of these patients.

With the regenerative stent, blood flow to the foot will be maintained by securing vascular patency using temporary mechanical support and improving long-term efficacy by inducing vascular repair, thereby preventing thousands of amputations each year

Bart Sanders, CEO of STENTiT, said:

“We are excited to receive the support of these esteemed Dutch early-stage investors. This financing round validates our vision to bring a novel class of implants that can rebuild the affected blood vessels. We are looking forward taking the next steps getting our regenerative stents ready for clinical trials. With our first product, we aim to treat millions of patients suffering from peripheral artery diseases, and save their limbs from amputation”

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Digital Business Ireland, the country’s leading representative body for digital, ecommerce and online businesses is calling for the Trading Online Voucher Scheme to be expanded in order to facilitate the growth of Ireland’s e-commerce sector. The organisation contends this can be done by allowing those businesses that never availed of funding under this scheme to be able to do so for digital marketing purposes and building consumer trust.

Trading Online Voucher Scheme

In its current form, applicants for the Trading Online Voucher Scheme are only eligible if they have little to no online presence. The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) scheme currently allows businesses to develop their digital footprint, through the establishment of a website, with grants of up to €2,500. The June 2020 revision of the scheme – as part of the Government’s response to COVID-19 – was essential in helping many businesses make the transition online, after public health restrictions imposed significant restrictions on footfall through physical stores.

Digital Business Ireland Survey

Digital Business Ireland and .IE’s most recent Tipping Point Survey 2022 – which surveyed 500 retail and consumer-facing professional services SMEs – emphasised that many SMEs see their websites as crucial for generating sales, with over half of the respondents looking to significantly expand their online presence within the next five years. However, the growth of Ireland’s digital commerce sector faces heavy competition from international retailers as some consumers view them as more competitive on price and product range.

Another issue facing Irish online retailers is trust – with many consumers citing cybersecurity as a key concern in the latest Tipping Point report. Allowing trust products such as online reviews technology to be included within the remit of an expanded Trading Online Voucher Scheme would allow consumers to trust and purchase from online Irish SMEs rather than losing out to international webstores.

Chair of DBI, Ashley McDonnell said “Government’s National Digital Strategy must develop with the needs and requirements of businesses that have already made the transition to online, and who are now looking to expand their reach through the use of digital marketing tools, or investment in trust technology to make their offer to its target segment more competitive in the international market.”

“By increasing opportunities for e-tailers in Ireland to reach new consumers, this will have wide-reaching benefits for the Exchequer and at DBI we firmly believe that an expansion of the remit of the scheme should be seriously considered, in order to enable and empower businesses to thrive in the digital marketplace.”

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Expleo has been positioned as a ‘Leader’ by IT and business services analyst firm, NelsonHall, in its 2021 NEAT evaluation for Quality Engineering. The evaluation recognises Expleo’s continued development of in-demand digital skills and marks its third consecutive year ranked as an overall leader.

The annual report from NelsonHall assesses 15 global service providers on performance across key competencies such as AI, cloud, quality engineering and security. The global software testing services market is valued currently at $36bn which NelsonHall predicts will grow by 3% in 2022.

In addition to being ranked as a leader in the overall evaluation, Expleo was positioned as a leader in the categories: AI & Cognitive Testing, Application Security Testing and Continuous Testing.

Rob McConnell, Director & Head of Advanced Global Solutions at Expleo said: “The software testing industry continues to evolve as organisations use more software and sophisticated technologies every day across all their operations. These factors, added with an unrelenting pace of change, mean that those using old methodologies and tools are wasting time and money testing the wrong things at the wrong time. Best practices are seeing software testing become more automated and integrated with Agile and DevOps delivery models, augmented by AI and machine learning technologies.”

Dominique Raviart, IT Services Practice Director at NelsonHall commented: “Expleo continues its automation journey, filling in the white spaces left by testing tools. The company has invested in continuous testing, DevOps, and AI to match demand for agile development and more focused testing. In AI, Expleo has a wealth of AI-based analytics for reducing the QA load while maximising coverage. This is well in line with client demand for reinventing testing.”

McConnell added: “The new technologies we’re adopting help limit a reliance on technical skills and reduce the pressure on those limited resources. With demand for those skills growing this creates one less headache for businesses.”

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Integrity360, Ireland’s largest cybersecurity services specialist, has announced that it been awarded 5 star Partner Status by Check Point Software Technologies, a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions globally. This makes the company the first indigenous Irish partner to achieve this status. It is also one of just eight Check Point partners in the UK market to be awarded same.

The Check Point Partner Program brings together and recognises a global community of leading technology partners in the security industry. The 5 star Status specifically positions Integrity360 as a partner that is capable of delivering complex Check Point solutions across its entire portfolio and in line with best practices.

It also recognises its ability to support companies, win new business and deliver value to clients through the supply and management of cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions. In turn, Integrity360 can differentiate itself in a highly competitive market.

As well as strengthening the partnership between the two cybersecurity leaders, which has been in place since 2005, this latest achievement adds to Integrity360’s wealth of recognised Check Point accreditations across the business, of which it currently has 49 in total.

These specialisations span the entire suite of Check Point solutions and include being a Certified Collaborative Support Partner (CCSP), Maestro Partner and Harmony Endpoint Partner. In addition to these and its 5 star Status, Integrity360 has invested heavily in its training and enablement around Check Point technologies.

Brian Martin, Head of Product, Strategy and Innovation for Integrity360, said: “This achievement is testament to our highly capable team and in-depth expertise. Not only does it make us stand out within the partner ecosystem and the cybersecurity industry as a whole, but it also reinforces the confidence that clients should have in us to support and secure their business using versatile technologies that deliver lasting value.”

Niall McNamara, Head of Managed Channel for Ireland, Check Point Software Technologies, commented: “We are delighted to award Integrity360 5 star Partner Status for the UK and Ireland, making it the first Irish partner to achieve this. It really showcases the company’s continued investment in and specialist experience with Check Point solutions.”

Adam Bradley, Regional Director for the UK and Ireland, Check Point Software Technologies, added: “I am incredibly proud to award Integrity360 its well-deserved 5 star Status in the Check Point Partner Programme. Integrity360 has become an integral part of our team, supporting the market in Ireland. With the investment in its UK arm, we look forward to replicating the success across both markets.”

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