by Tom | Mar 19, 2010 | Business, Government, Reading
Apparently digital piracy has destroyed 2.7m jobs in Europe. Lots of assumptions in the model they are using, so we must take it with a pinch of salt. The £200m each year the government is wasting on reorganisation is definitely destructive.Final word: as the Mash...
by Tom | Mar 16, 2010 | Business
More useful thinking on how to reward staff in such a way that we can be open about disclosing wages. I wonder how much of the stigma is that we all know how literally lucky we are to be earning them. I mean that some of our earning capacity is down to hard work and...
by Tom | Mar 16, 2010 | Business
Sage words from Brian PitmanAs he said, bosses of banks and other financial companies (such as insurers) have this unique ability to engineer increases in profits over the succeeding two or three years in a purely mechanistic way. It is not a power, for example, that...
by Tom | Mar 15, 2010 | Business
How come fashion has continued to grow as an industry without any formal copyright protection? Admittedly, it doesn’t have any direct digital competition as yet (but I’m sure it will: someone will be working on an in-home robotic sewing machine which will...
by Tom | Mar 15, 2010 | Business, Tech
Interesting to see a Twitter-alike grow so rapidly in Japan. I guess Google (with China) and Twitter haven’t destroyed competition completely.
by Tom | Mar 11, 2010 | Business
Are case studies and benchmarking moribund? If Chip Heath is right about bright spots, then trying to be like another company could well be a waste of time. You should be more like you at your best.
