Over the past few years there has been a growing interest from our clients for programmes which cover the tools and techniques to improve decision-making skills, particularly across Finance functions. …
Invasion of the Bottle Snatchers
As I settle down towards the end of the holiday period (at least in the UK) a colleague has pointed out an article in The Economist of July 9th. This …
Culture is not the Culprit – Am I missing something?
There was an interesting article on organisational culture in the Harvard Business Review of April 2016, by Jay W. Lorsch and Emily McTague. I had been meaning to write a …
Thriving through cultural differences
“You’re wrong” “It doesn’t work like that” “I don’t agree with you” These were just some of the challenges I received on the first morning of a three day training …
Bad romance in the chemical industry
An article in this week’s Economist considers the proposed merger of two chemicals giants, Dow Chemical and DuPont. The rationale for the merger is cost cutting through economies of scale …
Disrupting Mr Disrupter
The Schumpeter column (our favourite column in The Economist) this week discusses innovation and, in particular, the views of Clay Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School, who is often …
Primark. Faster, cheaper fashion
An article in the Business section of the Economist this week covers Primark’s launch into the USA. Most readers of this blog will be aware of the business model of …
Disruptive Innovations
There are two interesting articles in the Business section of The Economist this week dealing, in different ways, with innovation. The first piece ‘Miss fit’ discusses the development of wearable …
Executive MBAs and Corporate Universities.
Keeping it on the company campus, The Economist, 16th May 2015 The lead article in the Business section of The Economist this week is titled ‘Management Training. Keeping it on the …
Twilight of the gurus
Twilight of the gurus, Schumpeter, The Economist, 25th April 2015 Pieces by Schumpeter in The Economist on management writers are usually thought provoking. This week he suggests that the management guru …