Posts made in May, 2010
A Series: Outside the Box – Those That Draw Beyond Confines No.20 – Mooove Over: Business Strategy
Mooo-ve Over: Business Strategy. Stand still and silently watch the world go by – and it will. A wonderful thing to do but ill advised for businesses as, to be able to stand on your own two feet, business needs to keep moving. By complementing the core, the `risk’ that all business is prone to is lessened, as value is added to services or products and commercial value, whether...
Read MoreBringing the Economy to Heel
When you want a dog that is obedient and under control, it`s straight to obedience training. If you want additional bulging eyes, blue tongue and permanent bald patch around its collar, use a choke chain. The reaction, because the chain causes pain from a short sharp jerk, is for the dog to pull even more and, one presumes, causes damage beyond by not altering its behaviour. It now seems...
Read MoreRing-Fencing Risk
The mechanism for improving The System works too slowly. ” Every time attempts are made to finally patch-up one problem, cracks appear elsewhere” we’d quoted before when we mused on Moral Hazard over a year ago. It’s a bit like wearing full American football kit twice-over and then thinking it’s OK to go out and feel the thrill of falling from an aeroplane without a...
Read MoreBleeding Bank Notes…
Slow reactions, not enough investment, economic decline, the list goes on. Reasons or excuses, the domino effect of high street businesses struggling extends a death - knell further than the high street through a vampire-like sucking of the lifeblood of businesses. `For Sale/Rent’ signs can be witnessed by driving around any business or industrial park/estate and, in part, due to a...
Read MoreZero Value
`Too many nuts’ and `Too many nuts are bad for you’ were the predictive search interpretations by Google when typing in ‘Too many numbers’ and that might just be a more fitting response at this current time of information-overload and numbers. Lots of numbers are coming out about the polls, candidates, constituencies, percentages of voters and even steps taken. Not...
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