Crain's Op-ed piece

March 17th, 2008

I was asked last week to write up an op-ed for Crain’s Manchester Business on the City council’s “Digital strategy”. The result can be found online at their website now

Note how the recent sleep deprivation is showing nicely in that photograph. I meant what I said in the penultimate paragraph:

“After a decade of growth and a realisation that we are now at a tipping point of being dominant in the technology sector regionally, nationally and maybe even continentally, Manchester needs to make sure the opportunity isn’t wasted.”

The next couple of years are make or break time for us as a city in this sector. What are we doing to make sure we make it? Are we doing anything that might break it? Geography isn’t important until you factor in community and we have one of the strongest communities in the World, but we still seem to be lagging in a few areas.