by Sally Brazier | Mar 3, 2021 | BLOG
Are you interested in fact-based economics? Do you want to understand why what you are being told by politicians and journalists is often wrong? If so pick up this book and read it! Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator for the Financial Times, chose 99% as one of...
by Sally Brazier | Feb 11, 2021 | BLOG
Are you a perennial worrier? If so, Apocalypse How (BBC Radio 4) gives you some very big future threats to get your teeth into. But if a polite, readable book from 2010 is more your cup of tea then try “Two Speed World”, Gerald Ashley and Terry Lloyd’s whirlwind tour...
by Sally Brazier | Oct 19, 2020 | BLOG
What happens to a company that has a compulsive introvert as its founder CEO, a bullying culture and, in 2000/2001, lost 90% of its share price? Well that depends on professional diagnosis and any new medicine, doesn’t it? No, not when the founder is Jeff Bezos and...
by Alan Finn | Sep 16, 2019 | BLOG
Industrial product manufacturers create added-value in their production cycles by converting materials into finished products. Examples are in the pharmaceutical, heavy engineering, food and beverage, oil and gas industries, farming and agriculture and extend into...
by Alan Finn | Jul 22, 2019 | BLOG
Times up At a recent Richmond Group meeting, a guest speaker referred to the often-quoted reduction in people’s attention span – perhaps now down to a few seconds. If this is true, I should stop now! Attention or distraction But it doesn’t take much observation to see...
by Alan Finn | Jul 3, 2019 | BLOG
If William of Occam were alive today, I think we can be fairly certain that he wouldn’t have been a management consultant. Famously, the principle of Occam’s razor states that, faced with many possible explanations, the simplest is the most likely....
by Alan Finn | Jun 17, 2019 | BLOG
A few years ago I read a book called Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds. You can find it on Amazon. Garr is a graphics designer who lives in Japan and spends his life analysing presentations. He believes he has found the recipe for truly engaging presentations – which...
by Alan Finn | May 29, 2019 | BLOG
A recent article by By Fiona Czerniawska, Director, Source Global Research, London, United Kingdom, May 25th, 2019. Consulting services are a bit like the massive tectonic plates that cover the surface of the world: Ancient and slow-moving, they’ve defined the...
by Alan Finn | May 22, 2019 | BLOG
The retention of experienced employees’ knowledge is critical in today’s fast-moving technical and businesses environment. Companies struggling to attract and retain talent cannot ignore the hard-won skills of key employees. Retaining the knowledge –the core “knowhow”...
by Alan Finn | May 14, 2019 | BLOG
The press eagerly leapt on a research study published in February 2018 that claimed to show that there was an inverse correlation between health trust performance and the amount they spent on management consultants – in other words, the more they spent, the worse they...