by Keith Coats | Feb 1, 2010 | Archive
I find myself at a large hospitality group’s General Managers Conference. The group has seen a lot of change over the past tumultuous year and as a result, about 40% of those attending the conference are here for the first time. That’s a significant percentage. The...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Jan 29, 2010 | Archive, Future Trends, Organisational Development
In this months Harvard Business Review, Roger Martin writes that “modern capitalism can be broken down into two major eras. The first, managerial capitalism, began in 1932 and was defined by the then radical notion that firms ought to have professional...
by Graeme Codrington | Jan 29, 2010 | Archive, Future Trends
This weekend, Sky TV in the UK will become the first to broadcast a live sports event in 3-d. This is a preview of regular channel that will be launched by Sky in April. It will be available at no extra cost to anyone with an HD box. Read the press release here. The...
by Graeme Codrington | Jan 28, 2010 | Archive, Future Trends
The UK is officially out of recession, as are most countries around the world. You couldn’t call it “bouyant” yet, but the recovery has started. Over the next few months and years, it will gain momentum. One of the unintended consequences of the...
by TomorrowToday Global | Jan 27, 2010 | Archive
There are literally thousands of articles and opinions out there spelling out the ‘laws’ of how to use Twitter. If the authors of those articles were honest, they’d admit that those ‘so-called laws’ are really just opinions. Their...
by Graeme Codrington | Jan 25, 2010 | Archive, Future Trends
Accenture recently put out a report entitled, “Banking 2012: Preparing for a revolution”. How I’d love to believe they are right. The executive summary says that the banks that will succeed are those that focus on transparency, simplicity and renewed...