According to the Economist, the year 2009 turned out to be a low point for the American firm, but its resurgence has been remarkable. Currently, nine out of the ten most valuable companies are American, which puts America right back on top of business on a global scale. With its economy energised, not least by cheap shale gas, and its stockmarket rampant – there is optimism in the air yet…
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Headline: “Business Metrics Gone Awry: The Dark Side of Relying Solely on KPIs” Subheading: “Corporate Missteps Highlight the Pitfalls of Blindly Chasing Key Performance Indicators” We read about it all the time; in a shocking turn of events, the business world is abuzz with meteoric fall of some company and its CEO, its CFO, or…
Confection du Boischaut Nord (CBN) is a small miracle of manufacturing: it is one of the few firms in Indre’s once-buoyant local textiles sector to have withstood the onslaught of foreign competition, first from southern Europe, then North Africa and now Asia. Yet the overtime episode is a telling insight into a France struggling with itself:…
Bloomberg reports that Maserati, the Italian maker of exotic cars, is shifting its focus from the elite to the merely wealthy. They hope to shift their target market (slightly) with a mid-sized sedan called the Ghibli. The new car, which will start at $65,600, is said to represent a direct challenge to mainstay German models like…
ByEd Giles
There are diversions to help us get through our day and work more productively, and there are distractions that keep us from doing our work altogether. They range from never-ending stories from two colleagues standing at your desk talking to each other (and not you), a barrage of emails, the dog wanting to go out or,…
There’s little good in debating the threat of global warming these days. Finally, efforts worldwide are being made to help reduce carbon dioxide levels and ease the potentially dire pending consequences of climate change. Norway is one country with such a shiny new pipe dream. Here, the world’s largest and newest experimental facility for capturing…
… but all too often leaders don’t let them! It’s been a while since I published my first article “Even with Lean, Complexity Kills” in which I lay claim to lean being more about real organisational teamwork than a set of tools or systems. Of course teamwork alone will not deliver lean or operational excellence….
