Posts made in March, 2010
The Sky is Falling Down
A True Story: Calling at a Banks’ hole-in-the-wall is probably one of the No-No’s on the lists of precautions against scamming but sometimes is unavoidable. As is with the way of life that, just sometimes when concentration lapses, not all precautions are taken. So, when someone we know called at their usual ATM of choice but failed to check for wires, cameras, pieces of plastic or...
Read MoreA Series: Outside the Box – Those That Draw Beyond Confines No.18 Brolly Brilliant Designers
Complex, chaos, overwhelmed? Sounds like an ad for headache medication or some form of network marketing business financial hype. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on your stance, it’s the language of our era. Every day some form of chaos or complex crisis is brought to the fore and as we’ve quoted before “any fool can make things complicated , it requires a genius to make...
Read MoreBrief Encounters with the Economy
We could be in danger of showing our ages but, on a sunny March Monday with a gentle breeze, we’re reminded of the days when Monday was traditionally washing day; which in turn reminded us of a brilliant article, last year, in the NY Times . The premise was that looking around at the way we live can be a way of measuring the economy and depending on who is doing the looking, and at what...
Read MoreReacting to Gear Changes
One-size-fits-all rarely works. It rarely works for business models, customer service, education, hats, pants or people. Although it might work with the newly proposed hospital dignity gowns, standardising can’t react, therefore isn’t sustainable and results in availability vying with attainability. How does this reflect in our industry? An example we could give is the phrase...
Read MoreFinancial Robots
Thanks to those who make information public knowledge such as the likes of FSA, Financial Journalists, other media and public access via the Internet, it’s common knowledge that failed attempts to obtain credit, finance or loans leaves footprints on credit history. In the school of rational lending, the favoured Head Girls and Boys are those holding the badge of a perfect credit...
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