Well, OK, maybe some of you have. However, that in no way detracts from their practical innovativeness. And by practical,...
Introduction Great Britain is one of the few countries in the world with well-documented archives spanning over a millennium, with...
Five innovative companies working to help people have a better quality of life during the coronavirus lockdown. Life as we knew it has become unrecognizable in the space of just a few short weeks. In the wake of the global pandemic of COVID-19, with curtailed civil liberties, people are ordered...
What is a subscription service? And why does it work as a business model? Including a list of 7 advantages. ...
A simplistic analysis of Jeff Bezos’ Amazon corporation might simply point to its 2016 $136 billion revenue or its 2019...
The story behind how Bikini Luxe went from being a small company to a global brand through unconventional marketing. Many people in sales and marketing will tell you that the upper teen/ college girl fashion market is a very, very hard market to penetrate. This is Fussy Fashion incarnate. These...
Tesla and its competitors in the electric car manufacturing sector. Three years ago at the Detroit auto show, General Motors’...
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, that oversees and manages...
Have you noticed the hashtags everywhere on social media sites? Who do you think is responsible for this? Twitter. It is remarkable how a simple social media site limiting messages to 140 characters would launch an IPO in 2013 that was worth $1.8 billion dollars? Twitter managed this by providing...
Amazon.com Inc. has always been innovative and forward-thinking. They started out as an online book store at the beginning of...
Communication is the glue that holds people and organisations together. It is the key to success for any successful organization...
For Alan Mulally, retired CEO of Ford Motor Company, the Japanese principles of Kai and Zen (Kai for change, and Zen for the good) is creating a dazzling vista of what is humanly possible when man’s learning potential is finally unbridled. Mulally’s adherence to not just the principles of Kai,...
When you’re busy running a successful business or managing a full workload, it can be challenging to find time for...
Back in the early ’90s, sending and receiving payments online between individuals was not an easy process. People didn’t even...
“Start-up” has been a buzzword in the age of the internet, with business opportunities aplenty for anyone with a decent idea and connection. But the era is just as notable for its short-lived “shut-downs” – those companies who didn’t quite have the ruthlessness of Amazon or the right-time-right-place of Twitter....
For those of you Luddites who have not yet heard of Uber, it is a technology platform that allows you to...
Discover Toyota’s Global Success Story: No robots here, because when Mitsuru Kawai first began working at Toyota, he learned how...
Colin Baird World War II had just ended. Japan lay in ruins. In three large cities, millions of people had just witnessed the destruction of sixty five percent of their nation’s infrastructure. Food rationing brought even the nation’s elite to the streets of Tokyo, just to seek out their daily...
Sometimes you come across the name of a company and have to do a double-take. Are they really called that? ...
Most people in the UK would not be able to define franchising, with the industry either flying under the radar...