Why Strategies Don’t Work
Many people will agree with Pete Laburn, strategy consultant and part of TomorrowToday's network, that strategy just doesn't work in most companies. Its either about just getting a plan done for head office, or we actually don't have the time to lift our heads above...
Buppies – coming to terms with young black staff
Buppies - Black yuppies. Black young upwardly mobile professionals. Research shows that this is one of the fastest growing demographic groups in South Africa, but many companies and leaders have no idea how to manage them. Aloysias Maimane, a new member of the...
Buppies – coming to terms with young black staff
Buppies - Black yuppies. Black young upwardly mobile professionals. Research shows that this is one of the fastest growing demographic groups in South Africa, but many companies and leaders have no idea how to manage them. Aloysias Maimane, a new member of the...
Travel Tips: Power, Phones and Tipping
For those who travel regularly to different cultures, you know the nightmare of arriving in a new country and realising that you don't know some important local customs. I'm not talking about the customs officials at the airport, but rather issues like do you tip the...
In flight education – consumer value shifts
A nice innovation is being experimented with by Air France, JAL, Singapore and Virgin airlines. They will now be offering in-flight language tutorials on selected routes, helping passengers to learn a few key words and phrases of the language of the country of their...
Locking up information
The first time I heard about the AACS 'secret' code (AACS is the anti-copying system built into HD-DVDs) being aired on the net, was the user revolt on Digg that made news on the blogosphere.Then this morning while browsing through BoingBoing I came across another...
In the dark
You need to know that I am grumpy. At 1:29am this morning, my electricity was turned back on - after 3 days of being off. I mean completely off - nada, nothing - since Monday night at 3am. Then, as I dragged myself out of bed for a 4am wake up to get to the airport, I...
The Thunderbolt Kid
I don't know if you ever finish a book and feel like something different has happened? Something different to how you feel after finishing other books? Today I finished "The life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid" by Bill Bryson. I felt something different. It's...
The Thunderbolt Kid
I don't know if you ever finish a book and feel like something different has happened? Something different to how you feel after finishing other books? Today I finished "The life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid" by Bill Bryson. I felt something different. It's...
Get your daily Joost
Joost is the new internet TV concept being developed by highly successful entrepreneurs Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype which they sold to ebay for $2.6 billion cash! Joost pronounced 'juiced' is an interactive software for distributing TV...
Being off balance: cricket and organisational development
The 2007 Cricket World Cup was a dismal affair for English and South African cricket fans alike. The hosts would also not be proud of their efforts, while Australia has marched on from strength to strength, not even missing Brett Lee and saying a mighty farewell to...
The Pope's Limbo
It's official. After 800 years of being Catholic church policy, the theological construct of "limbo" has been abolished (read the International Herald Tribune on this). This was a place were unbaptised babies were said to go, awaiting some kind of final judgement at...
The Pope’s Limbo
It's official. After 800 years of being Catholic church policy, the theological construct of "limbo" has been abolished (read the International Herald Tribune on this). This was a place were unbaptised babies were said to go, awaiting some kind of final judgement at...
The Pope's Limbo
It's official. After 800 years of being Catholic church policy, the theological construct of "limbo" has been abolished (read the International Herald Tribune on this). This was a place were unbaptised babies were said to go, awaiting some kind of final judgement at...
Ten Faces of Innovation
I was recently sent the outline of a book, "The Ten Faces of Innovation", by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman (Profile, 2005) - buy it online at Amazon.com or Kalahari.net. In our work on "Invitational Innovation", we have been telling clients for a long time that...
Ten Faces of Innovation
I was recently sent the outline of a book, "The Ten Faces of Innovation", by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman (Profile, 2005) - buy it online at Amazon.com or Kalahari.net. In our work on "Invitational Innovation", we have been telling clients for a long time that...
Cheeky companies with happy customers and even happier bottomlines!
Every business has customers who are convinced they can design a new product that is better than the product they are being sold. So the question is why not let them? Crowdsourcing is a new and innovative research methodology that allows customers to help design the...
Cheeky companies with happy customers and even happier bottomlines!
Every business has customers who are convinced they can design a new product that is better than the product they are being sold. So the question is why not let them? Crowdsourcing is a new and innovative research methodology that allows customers to help design the...
Getting and Keeping Talent
“The ‘surplus society’ has a surplus of similar companies, employing similar people, with similar educational backgrounds, coming up with similar ideas, producing similar things, with similar prices and similar quality.� Funky Business, Kjell Nordström and...
Generation Y: They’ve arrived at work with a new attitude
An excellent article in the USA Today, 11 June 2006, reports on the Millennial generation's entrance into the workforce. In the USA, Millennials are defined as those young people born 1984 to 2000, so they've been entering the workforce for a few years now, and...