Aspiro Insights

Even before COVID 19, the agenda around so-called smart cities stood prominent in both public and private sectors. Progress in digitalization and communication technologies allowed for efficient city operations and urban services and improved connection to citizens, however only a few cities actually made use of the opportunity. Today, city…

Going digital in 2 weeks (or 52 weeks) As we have seen in 2020, restrictive government regulations due to COVID pandemic, and consequent significant changes in customer behaviour, forced companies to shut down their physical branches and other traditional channels. Although some large retailers have managed to swiftly change their…

Overrated “one building” model The world’s leading companies have spent billions to establish central headquarter office, or the “one building” model, where majority of employees share one roof with aim to increase collaborative potential. Google’s (and its parent company Alphabet Inc.) corporate headquarters Googleplex or Apple’s Apple Park are the…

Corporate view – Missing “employer & employee digital connector” Despite many years of digital reality in consumer world, companies have not progressed in digitizing employer & employee agenda. When, in the past few months 90% of staff was forced to work from home, many companies faced the hard truth –…

In construction sector, infrastructure has to be designed in detail before it is built. If the detailed designs are already prepared by an independent engineering team and the contractor only has to follow the designs and carry out the works, the form of contract follows FIDIC Red Book (template for…