by Graeme Codrington | Sep 19, 2005 | Archive, Future Trends
KPMG, one of the global “Big Four” accounting giants, has acknowledged guilt in criminal tax frauds, by providing sham tax shelters to wealthy clients between 1996 and 2002. This was announced by the US Justice Department on 29 August, together with a fine...
by TomorrowToday Global | Sep 16, 2005 | Future Trends
Business2Day Blog reports “Goodbye, Coins. Hello, Digicash”, which, in my humble opinion, adds weight to my predictions at RIP: Newspaper. My genius aside, can you think of one good reason coins and notes should stay in circulation? (ok, besides the tooth...
by Graeme Codrington | Sep 15, 2005 | Future Trends
Michelle Conlin wrote in 2000 for BusinessWeek on how the turn of the millennial would not necessarily solve one of women’s age ol dilemmas – how to balance work, marriage and kids. It seems that men just get to carry on, assuming that the women will pick...
by TomorrowToday Global | Sep 15, 2005 | Future Trends
BBC News (UK Edition) has published a thought-provoking article titled “What will newspapers look like in 20 years?”, on the back of The Guardian’s decision to switch from ‘broadsheet’ format to a more compact, practical...
by Graeme Codrington | Sep 15, 2005 | Archive, Future Trends
I find it fascinating that more and more people are getting their news from “spoof” news shows. The Late Night Shows (Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno, etc), have always provided light relief, with a few well placed jokes about current affairs up front. But...
by Graeme Codrington | Sep 13, 2005 | Archive, Future Trends
The HR magazine, Personnel Today, 13 Sep 2005, cites a survey by Deloittes that indicates globally HR practitioners are most worried about attracting and retaining talent over the next few years (read the full story here – includes graphic summaries). They...
