In 1973, with Mike O'Regan (who had an economics degree from Cambridge), Fischer co-founded Research Machines, a British microcomputer and then software company for the educational market.
In education, the key project of the Fischer Family Trust has been to change the way school performance is measured in England.
[1] Fischer is also Director of SBL, a (Community Interest) Company dedicated to improving patient treatment options through high quality, collaborative and clinically focused research, and co–founder of Alamy Ltd, a stock photography agency.
[5] Fischer and Mike O’Regan founded RM (as Research Machines) in 1973 as a mail-order supplier of electronic components.
[9] Videoloft's software cloud-enables traditional CCTV systems, making them inherently more secure and adding powerful business intelligence.
In 1992, the project identified the elimination of avoidable early literacy failure as the single most important improvement to be made in UK education.
[7] Fischer is also known for his work with Success for All, a classroom improvement project developed by US educationalists Robert Slavin and Nancy Madden.
The lab was quickly able to provide 250-500 tests a week to local NHS health care workers with a half-day turnaround.