Chaos and Covid-19: Applying “Covid Lenses” for investment analyses

Former advisers to Gazprom, Vodafone and the World Bank, Quentin Anderson and Dr Peter Stanbury look at the investment implications of Covid -19, through their  perspective as Political Economists, and devise a three step investment process. Introduction A recent article by members of the Private Equity practice at Bain Consulting Read more…

Living with the Covid -19 bioterror…How will businesses have to adapt?

As the globe and their economies continue in lockdown how will businesses large and small have to adapt? The combination of scalable and agile capabilities is what will define all businesses going forward. Businesses that use cloud are already surviving better than those who don’t through the pandemic crisis. Artificial Read more…

‘The world has been put in a great lockdown,’ the IMF’s chief economist, Gita Gopinath, told reporters. ‘This is a crisis like no other.”

Last week, we at DVC published a paper which looked at the Covid-19 Pandemic through the scope of the Rumsfeldian Knowledge Matrix to predict the global economic, socio-political, scientific and technological impacts of the virus. We at DVC, have been helping clients with what then-US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld once Read more…

Transformative Consultants- The terraces in Montenegro are just the tip of the iceberg. Far- right, even racist views go mainstream in Central and Eastern Europe.

Racist chants are not anything new on the football terraces of Central and Eastern Europe, and having watched, the quite frankly, sickening and defensive response of the national coach of the Montenegro Team to accusations of racist chants, it is obvious that racism is institutionalised in these countries. The Croatian Read more…

Is big tech, and the disruption it brings, a bigger threat to the world than global warming?

Is big tech and the disruption it brings a bigger threat to the world than global warming? With big data putting at risk millions of jobs worldwide, is techno-darwinism imposing the rules of nature on man made markets? And are the companies that survive the upheaval of disruption by nature Read more…

“IF YOU DON’T FUND THE STATE DEPARTMENT FULLY, THEN I NEED TO BUY MORE AMMUNITION ULTIMATELY” JAMES N MATTIS, UNITED STATES -SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

Through the delivery of our consulting services, a number of us at DVC Consultants have had real time exposure to terrorism. While in Northern Nigeria consulting for HMG, one of our directors had to take evasive action from Boko Haram road blocks. On another occasion, while consulting for a private Read more…