For businesses that carry inventory it is often a millstone around their neck, with stock levels which are way too high. It’s not unusual to…
For businesses that carry inventory it is often a millstone around their neck, with stock levels which are way too high. It’s not unusual to…
When I was at university I chose to do a unit in “basic maths”. I’d been pretty good at maths at school so I picked this subject as an easy …
It’s all very well knowing that you should hire the best people and, putting it bluntly, fire the worst. But in practice it’s hard. W…
Much is said about needing information – of both a financial and non-financial nature – to run your business. And the usual message is t…
I have written before about the importance of having a “purpose” for your business. You purpose is the reason you are in business, it’s the…
I recently met a great little business (let’s call it Rouge) that had spent the best part of the last three years negotiating an alliance …
Simple is easy to say, hard to do, but gets profitable results. What can you simplify today? Most often in business we focus on what w…
Hail the New Year! A time when our minds are full of exciting possibilities for the next 12 months. But will the possibilities see the light…
At this time of the year (or certainly when the Christmas festivities have made way for New Years Eve) it is natural to do a little reflecti…
I don’t think there is any doubt that we want to make good decisions, but many of us fail to do so because we have a ‘decision default’ sett…
A friend’s young daughter had very bad eczema. For six years she was subjected to a daily smothering of cream, was not allowed to go swimmin…
Should we outsource some of our activities to keep costs down or is it better to keep them in-house? Businesses often look to outsource …
