There’s many claims over the last year or so that “manufacturing is returning to the West” and “China’s days as the world’s factory are numbered”{{1}}. […]
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Winners and losers in retail
There’s a lot of talk in the media at the moment about the soft retail market. Consumer confidence is down[ref]Australian Consumer Confidence, Trading Economics[/ref] and we […]
Continue readingWhat I like about jet engines
Rolls-Royce{{1}} (the engineering company, not the car manufacturer) is an interesting firm. From near disaster in the 70s, when the company was on the brink […]
Continue readingPeople don’t like change. (Or do they?)
I seem to be having a lot of conversations at the moment around whether people (you, me and everyone else) like and embrace change, or […]
Continue readingInnovation [2010-02-01]
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. The Evolution of Technology [strategy+business] […]
Continue readingWorking from the outside in
We’re drowning in a sea of data and ideas, with huge volumes of untapped information available both inside and outside our organization. There is so […]
Continue readingTesco’s looking outside the building to predict customer needs
Tesco, the UK’s largest retailer, has started using weather forecasts to help determine what to stock in its stores across the UK. Traditional approaches to […]
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