Who’d be a politician?
Certainly not me.
The recent chaotic departure of Prime Minister Boris Johnson was an unseemly affair which distracted attention from the things that really matter. Now, the race among his successors to No. 10 Downing Street appears to be a brutal cut-throat business with high ambition temporarily side-lining once again the big issues of the day.
I’m not a partisan guy (and don’t worry, this is ABSOLUTELY NOT a parliamentary political broadcast of any kind) so all I hope for is that the new government gets back to business as soon as possible.
Specifically - although the drama of the Conservative leadership campaign will no doubt fill the airwaves and the newspaper columns over the coming weeks - I’m hoping the eventual appointment of a new PM will provide an opportunity for the government to re-energise its digital strategy.
Yes, of course there are myriad serious issues to be tackled, not least the cost-of-living crisis, energy prices and inflation.
But in today’s modern economy, digitisation holds the key to unlocking so much of our potential to overcome all those challenges.
Change can be a huge positive (although not for Boris, obvs!)
A change of government and its ministers should, in my view, coincide with a fresh look at policy and strategy: a chance to ensure the right levers are being pushed and pulled to support British businesses at a time when they really need it.
That’s not just about taxation tweaks at home or inward investment initiatives abroad.
It should be about developing and delivering a digital strategy for British businesses which is able to see into the future not just keep pace with the present.
For example, enterprises of all verticals and sizes know that flexible or hybrid working is now the established norm.
Those in the commercial real estate sector know that responding to that new model is critical for their survival.
And we all know that digital connectivity - and the amazing tools, applications and software it supports – will underpin the success that I am always obsessively talking up.
Changing things; doing things differently; taking a fresh new approach: these are the things that can change the game for businesses.
Take the country’s digital infrastructure.
Flexible Group is working closely with amazingly dynamic and highly-competitive niche providers of digital connectivity who are out-doing the long-established big boys by digging the streets of London as we speak to lay their own cables that out-perform those on which we have all been forced to rely for decades.
As a result, we are connecting the capital’s smarter commercial real estate customers, their buildings and their tenants faster, more effectively and more cheaply than ever before.
It means future-proofing doesn’t have to be expensive; operational costs can be much more easily controlled; and efficiency soars.
All because change occurred.
So, as the various politicians fight and plot their way into the top job, let’s remind them however and whenever we can that it should be Britain’s prosperity they care about most, not any personal power they may wish to wield.
We might all then feel some of ousted Boris’s famed ‘boosterism’ after all…
created Tuesday 12th of July 2022
