Have you noticed that struggling retail businesses tend to change their senior executives frequently? Undoubtedly, every new appointment is made with the hope of finding a leader capable of turning the ship around.
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In Search of Symbiosis: Q&A with Andrew Gorecki
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When I studied engineering, one of the most embarrassing mistakes an aspiring engineer could make was to derive a dimension from the wrong ‘base’.
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Many years ago an article was published in the UK lamenting the dismal state of primary education in Great Britain. The key premise of the article: half of the students had below average reading skills.
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A new industry is emerging solely to repair the amateurish, yet often commercially useful software, routinely produced by academics. The phenomenon has become so widespread that it caught the attention of The Economist.
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On 15 July 1410, the Polish-Lithuanian coalition scored a decisive victory over the Teutonic Order in the battle of Grunwald. Many factors contributed to this outcome, which set the wheels in motion for the ultimate demise of the Order.
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Retailers often use the term ‘technological debt’ when their systems become increasingly misaligned with their business.
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In Part 1, I quoted Max Ehrmann’s poem Desiderata, where he counseled us to “Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery.”
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In the early 1990s I worked at McEwans, which later morphed into Bunnings. To learn more about the business and how it operates, I would help out every Saturday on the shop floor at a branch located near where I lived.
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Training attracts no controversy. On the contrary, people see it as a necessary activity, believing that it improves productivity and empowers employees.
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Some years ago a small brewery in the UK became increasingly successful. The manager of the local supermarket called them to arrange for an additional delivery on Fridays, because the beer had become so popular that it sold out by Saturday each week.
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Has it occurred to you to look at today’s digitally connected world as a living organism? Internet links can be viewed as synapses connecting this global nervous system, where each person plugged into it behaves like a sensory or a neuron cell. Internet storage then acts as memory.
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At first glance, the radical corporate cultures that frequently make the headlines appear progressive, perhaps even revolutionary.
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