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Nov 25, 2024 | 
insideretail.com.au | Brian Walker
Recently, I have been examining what I call ‘The Invisible Enemy’ facing Australian and global retailers. This pervasive, almost intangible force is dismantling the traditional pillars of retail with alarming speed. Once, we knew our competitors. They were visible in malls, high streets, shopping centres, or online marketplaces. But today, the competitive landscape has dramatically shifted, and traditional retailers find themselves grappling with an enemy they can no longer see or predredict.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
24-7pressrelease.com | Brian Walker
All Press Releases for November 14, 2024 The exhibition featured 48 works by 57 artists from 8 countries, chosen from over 335 submissions, and explored how wanderlust and nostalgia interact with a world shaped by digital landscapes.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Brian Walker
Founder and CEO, The CAP Group. Since ChatGPT was released in late 2022, companies of all sizes and in all industries have been grappling with how to benefit from artificial intelligence. A company’s board is ultimately accountable for guiding it on priorities and expectations, but many boards, I’ve observed, have struggled with some common, basic issues. But by focusing on key factors, boards can navigate AI adoption with savvy.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Brian Walker
Founder and CEO, The CAP Group. Now more than ever, in the backdrop of heightened cyber risks, critical infrastructure operators have to band together. They can’t turn to the federal government to defend them against cyber threats. The onus of defending their critical assets from cyber attacks is on the operators of critical infrastructure facilities because no government entity can or willdefend them.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Brian Walker
Founder and CEO, The CAP Group. It’s not the federal government that’s responsible for the cyber defense of critical infrastructure. The responsibility falls on the critical infrastructure operators themselves—and most aren’t equipped for the fight. Cyber threats to the United States' critical infrastructure are on the rise.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
insideretail.com.au | Brian Walker
What is the X-factor that separates the great retailers of the world – both past, present, and future – from their competitors, and captures the imagination of a universal audience? Is it their brand, product, offering, people, heritage, complex simplicity, timing, alacrity of thought and process, aptitude for risk, forgiveness for errors, or simply some luck along the way? All of the above? Through the aperture on this lens, my attention turns to Uniqlo.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
historynet.com | Brian Walker |Gavin Mortimer
Norman Crockatt is not a well-known name, but the British intelligence officer was responsible for one of the most controversial decisions of World War II. When the War Office in London created Military Intelligence Section 9 (MI9) on December 23, 1939, it chose the 45-year-old Crockatt to head the new organization. The former head of the London Stock Exchange, he was seen as “the right sort of chap” for the post despite his scant experience in military intelligence.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
historynet.com | Brian Walker |James M. Fenelon
O n the evening of June 5, 1944, Louis Leroux, his wife, and their six children scrambled atop an embankment near their farm to investigate the sounds of distant explosions. Three miles south, Allied fighter-bombers were attacking bridges over the Douve River on France’s Cotentin Peninsula. In the fading twilight the family watched silhouetted warplanes peel away from the glowing tracers of German anti-aircraft fire that stabbed skyward.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
historynet.com | Brian Walker |Stephan Wilkinson
The Curtiss-Wright Corporation came into being in 1929 through the merger of companies started by pioneering aviators Glenn Curtiss and the Wright brothers. Within the new company, the Curtiss-Wright airplane division made airplanes while the Wright Aeronautical Corporation focused on engines. By the time of World War II, Curtiss-Wright held more defense contracts than any organization other than vastly larger General Motors and had become something of a bully.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
historynet.com | Brian Walker |Steve Wartenberg
Jean Boulet’s first helicopter flight was almost his last. It was September 21, 1947, and the 26-year-old Boulet was at the Camden, New Jersey, headquarters of Helicopter Air Transport, the world’s first commercial helicopter operator. He had earned an engineering degree from the École Polytechnique in Paris and had been a member of the French air force during World War II. After the liberation of France, the air force sent Boulet to the United States for fighter pilot training.
