In the US, UK and Australia this week, sustainability and the genuine desire to lower our carbon footprint was evident at many levels. …
In the US, UK and Australia this week, sustainability and the genuine desire to lower our carbon footprint was evident at many levels. …
Sometimes it takes a real specialist to find a way to crack a difficult problem. We tend to forget that we have a lot of these people in abu…
We are a small team of 20. I don’t think one of the guys is right for our business. Should we move him on or put up with him? A group of…
Novelty or serious sales driver? Corporations are tweeting, ‘Facebooking’ and working over the reviews pages. So should bleeping and bloggin…
It was an interesting week in retailing, and in reported shopper sentiment, around the world. A number of seemingly unrelated conversations…
Awhile ago I met a guy, we’ll call Pat, who was running a pest control business. Pat told me how the business, which had been quite successf…
Innovation is an essential activity for any fast-growth company. The question is in how exactly that should be done. Many companies turn…
When you are punting on this year’s Melbourne Cup, have a bit of sympathy for Australia’s 44,000 exporters who have had to make their big be…
Seoul has played an important role in Australia’s economic and diplomatic history. In fact it was in Seoul 20 years ago, in 1989, that the t…
Store walks – known in industry parlance as “thinking standing up” – always trigger a theme based on your observations or feelings from the …
Analysts by their very nature do a good job of looking at historical numbers and then making predictions. They are a key source of informati…
The Australian dollar is now in the 90 cent territory and there are fears this could affect out strong showing in ‘the great recovery’. Th…
