It’s tough at the top

It’s tough at the top

I listened to the Vice-Chairman of Johnson and Johnson, Christine Poon, at a GIBS evening a few months ago. While cleaning up my office for the onslaught of 2006 I came accross some stats she talked to during her 60 minutes with us. It illustrates that even when you...
People Trends for 2006

People Trends for 2006

Watson Wyatt Worldwide (NYSE:WW) is a global human capital and financial management consulting firm. The firm specializes in employee benefits, human capital strategies, technology solutions, and insurance and financial services and has 6,000 associates in 30...
Store layout for Gen X

Store layout for Gen X

We all know why milk and bread is found at the back of food retail store? It’s because they’re two things that everyone needs more often that almost anything else. By putting it at the rear of the store you get ‘dragged’ past hundreds of other...

Looking to Tomorrow – 2005 and Beyond

Synthesized from the futureneering work of the storytellers and organisational alchemists in the Business Intelligence Unit (BIU) of TomorrowToday.biz. – http://www.tomorrowtoday.biz During December and January every year, magazines and websites are filled with...
Black Marketing

Black Marketing

Not like the name suggests, this is a strand of marketing that is being borne out of how the Smoking Co’s have been cornered by global health legislation (and soon too the breweries!). Now that they’re no longer able to utlise the ‘tried and...