The Wise Marketer on 27 Dec 2005, carries this story - read it here. A summary: "The growing integration of technology into every aspect of life, whether in the home, office, family, car or recreational arenas, will profoundly impact business technology over the next...
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I don't know how long it'll stay up for, but the new Google banner is one of the most interesting ones I've seen. .
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...
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...
Blog Communicating
For the last couple of weeks I have been milling with a question in my mind. Are there rules for blogging? People that are being communicated to, how do they receive information? Sometimes in life all you need is half a sentence, other times a couple of hours to get...
United Airlines nausea
United Airlines Nausea : 3 months of hellishly slugging it out against call center staff determined jut to play dumb, lose my ticket, charge me twice…
Office Optional
The Dec 2005 Inc magazine has a great article on Point B, a consulting company with over 200 employees, and no office premises at all. In addition to their virtual nature, they also have a specific approach to their staff and consulting work, preferring to keep...
A thought to chase: The rich
Here is thought that I put here, because I have nowhere else to leave it, and I am not sure what can be done with it... Throughout the ages, the rich in societies have been able to enhance their lives. In ages past, the rich have had superior access to those things...
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...
The Young & the Restless
As I sit here a day before Christmas, rain falling, birds in the feeder right outside my window and a sense of peace and goodwill pervading the atmosphere I am witness to another phenomena about to unfold: Roadtrip 2006. My about-to-be-20 year old son and several of...
Million Dollar Homepage
And so, you're sitting around one day as a broke 21yr old student pondering how you'll pay for your university tuition fees. It's really simple - host an advertising site where you sell space. Alex Tew is the brains behind www.milliondollarhomepage.com. At a premium...
Has Google sold its soul?
So has Google's purchase of AOL for $1Billion brought it it into the fully capitalist fold, thereby undermining its "Do No Evil" motto? Matt Asay would have us believe so in this post at InfoWorld's blog. December 17, 2005 Google sells its soul for a mess of pottage...
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 items to tempt you to...
Change is easier when you are healthy
I was reading an article on church growth and leadership (we have a lot to learn from non profit leadership), and came across a few gem quotations that I think are important (read the full article here), from H. Dale Burke, senior pastor of First Evangelical Free...
An African Christmas: Awesome customer service
Ed Jordan is fairly well known in South African music circles. Together with some business mates, he has produced a few albums of kids music with a distinctly African flavour - you can get them here. Their latest album is "An African Christmas". Its traditional...
Cricket in the 21st century
One of the greatest things about southern hemisphere summer holidays is that it is also cricket season. And I am a cricket fanatic (for more on cricket read a serious summary and a humurous summary of the rules). I was up at 4:30am this morning to continue watching SA...
Outside of effective media strategies where else do monopolies hurt
South Africa is home to only one fixed-line-operator. It's name is Telkom and it's enjoyed this status for long enough to have generated a fair amount of frustrated customers. Screw the public! Do we care? NO! Why? Look how much money we're making! As from today, I'll...
Airlines and their pricing issues
One of the biggest problems for the airline industry right now is that not one of their millions of customers around the world understands their pricing policies. And I'd venture to suggest that their staff don't either. In fact, their pricing policies are just so...
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