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Nicola Pike
@nicolapike.bsky.social
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Strategic #marketing leader with a 25-year track record in proposition development, communications, brand building, and engagement within financial and professional services and higher education.
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Jun 7
Need to visit this. Used to spend a couple of days a week working at “the Pyramid” in my Co-Op Bank days
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · Jun 7
For my @ftweekend.com restaurant review I’m inside the landmark that is the Stockport Pyramid, which has become the Royal Nawaab, an astonishing Indian buffet which is laughing in the face of the challenges facing Hospitalty.

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The Productivity Institute @productivity.bsky.social · Oct 3
Exciting things happening in TPI today- we've launched a Policy Unit headed up by Policy Director @andywestwood.bsky.social
Today we have Policy briefings and commentary from Andy, @gilesyb.bsky.social , @timleunig.bsky.social , Professors Stephen Roper & Jun Du www.productivity.ac.uk/policy-unit/
Policy Unit - The Productivity Institute
How we work with policy makers on critical productivity issues at both a local and national level.
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · Sep 28
A rich man on R4 just said he would stay in the UK to educate his kids, but then leave so as not to "bankrupt them with our own assets" via inheritance tax.
Must be exhausting to be so focused on playing the system that you can't just use your money to live where you want to
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Sep 28
Agree. This is a really good column
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Andy Westwood @andywestwood.bsky.social · Sep 28
Good column - and yes this is the pitch (making it actually happen however…)

www.thetimes.com/article/f885...
PM bets all on British jobs for British workers
By reviving a phrase that used to be toxic, Starmer is challenging both Reform and his party — and he must succeed
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Sep 27
My 2 favourite Dames, Cole Porter and Agatha Christie. What’s not to love? RIP Dame Maggie
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Sep 22
Great column from my @productivity.bsky.social colleague @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social in The Sunday Times this morning | Will AI solve the UK’s growth problem? Don’t be so sure

www.thetimes.com/article/752c...
Will AI solve the UK’s growth problem? Don’t be so sure
AI might one day follow earlier technological innovations in boosting productivity, including in public services, but it could be agonisingly slow
www.thetimes.com
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Bart van Ark @bartvanark.bsky.social · Sep 18
Former minister Greg
Clark: #industrialstrategy needs an intellectual “hook” and that should be: improve #productivity. @productivity.bsky.social
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Sep 18
Watching this live now. Great panel and insights/ views so far. Nice to see my @productivity.bsky.social colleagues @andywestwood.bsky.social & Kate Barker on the panel with @gilesyb.bsky.social @gemmatetlow.bsky.social & Greg Clark
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Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk · Sep 18
💻 How can the new government’s industrial strategy help boost productivity?

Join us online as we explore the relationship between growth and industrial strategy
With @gilesyb.bsky.social, @gemmatetlow.bsky.social @productivity.bsky.social

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/new-go...
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Sep 18
Watching this live now. Great panel and insights/ views so far. Nice to see my @productivity.bsky.social colleagues @andywestwood.bsky.social & Kate Barker on the panel with @gilesyb.bsky.social @gemmatetlow.bsky.social & Greg Clark
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Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk · Sep 18
💻 How can the new government’s industrial strategy help boost productivity?

Join us online as we explore the relationship between growth and industrial strategy
With @gilesyb.bsky.social, @gemmatetlow.bsky.social @productivity.bsky.social

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/new-go...
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · Sep 11
RIP anyone who had a survey/experiment out tonight to measure debate effects but cannot now parse debate effects from Swift effects
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Sep 9
Interesting OpEd in The Times this morning. Business leader view on industrial strategy and how the regions have their part to play #UKproductivity | How to make ‘levelling up’ work for business

www.thetimes.com/article/46f6...
How to make ‘levelling up’ work for business
Governments have struggled to implement a successful regional economic strategy for decades, but it is crucial to Labour’s central growth mission
www.thetimes.com
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Sep 8
If there is one thing I have learnt in the 4 years of working in The Productivity Institute, it is that there isn’t a single magic solution to fixing UK productivity and it is multifaceted with many of the elements dependent on the other.
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Sep 8
The Productivity Agenda (with original piece by Anna and Bart) is here www.productivity.ac.uk/research/the...
The Productivity Agenda - The Productivity Institute
Download the Agenda for free to find out how the public, private and civic sectors can be better equipped to translate productivity gains into improved living standards and well-being across the UK.
www.productivity.ac.uk
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Sep 8
The new report from Nesta is here options2040.co.uk/wp-content/u...
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Sep 8
Also references the idea of an independent productivity and growth commission. First mooted in National Productivity Week last Nov in a paper by Bart van Ark & Anna Valero). It was also picked up by the Resolution Foundation’s Economy2030 report so good to see another group advocate for the idea
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Sep 8
Another productivity focused piece from David Smith in The Sunday Times. Mentions a recent Nesta report that my Productivity Institute colleagues (Dame Kate Barker, Philip McCann) contributed to | Business needs sweeteners, or growth will stay stagnant

www.thetimes.com/article/afb7...
Business needs sweeteners, or growth will stay stagnant
Labour wants to make the UK the strongest-growing economy in the G7, but an appalling productivity record since the financial crisis shows the scale of the task
www.thetimes.com
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Sep 7
Took my daughter to see this play last night and can’t recommend enough. First time it has been performed outside the USA & the playwright who adapted it from Christie’s book (Tony award winning no less) also opened the show with a few words. Brilliant production www.murderontheorientexpressplay.com
Murder on the Orient Express on stage. UK Tour 2024-25
Brand-new stage production of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Embarking on a UK Tour in 2024 and 2025.
www.murderontheorientexpressplay.com
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The Productivity Institute @productivity.bsky.social · Sep 6
We have pulled together a BlueSky starter pack for UK Productivity. Please let us know who else you think should be included go.bsky.app/Hwvjf3i
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Sep 5
Interesting piece on #industrialstrategy from David Wighton in The Times
@productivity.bsky.social & @instituteforgov.bsky.social are hosting an event on this topic on 18th Sept | Bosses’ biggest wish for Labour’s industrial strategy? To see it

www.thetimes.com/article/9acf...
Bosses’ biggest wish for Labour’s industrial strategy? To see it
Business has been reassured by promises of a partnership with the private sector, but there is frustration at the perceived lack of urgency
www.thetimes.com
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Sep 4
Same post. Different season. Let’s be having you #slowhorses season 4!
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Dec 1
I’m now dedicating my weekend to bingeing on season 3 of Slow Horses
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The Productivity Institute @productivity.bsky.social · Sep 3
NEW EVENT: How can the new government’s industrial strategy help boost productivity?

🗓️ Wednesday 18 September, 17:30
@instituteforgov.bsky.social @gilesyb.bsky.social @gemmatetlow.bsky.social

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/new-go...
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Aug 19
I’ll be sharing this with North West Productivity Forum members 😊
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Aug 19
Watching the Preston to Hebden Bridge episode of #GreatBritishRailwayJourneys (my guilty pleasure). Superb North West edition & delighted to see one of my political heroines - Barbara Castle - featured. Awesome woman!
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Aug 18
Watching Mary Poppins with my 10 year old. “When was it made and when was it set?” she asks. 1910 and 1964 I say. Her- “Oh, so it’s like a film today being made about 1970 then”. Me - 😳😳
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Aug 18
Productivity is the central theme of Larry Elliot’s column in The Observer today |
GDP growth is strong but it masks UK plc’s deep-seated structural problems | Larry Elliott
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Nicola Pike @nicolapike.bsky.social · Aug 18
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