If we look at business models in the last century then the major innovation was the introduction by the Ford Motor Company of the assembly line. The approach created competitive advantage through efficiency and since this breakthrough in Detroit which began operation on 1st December 1913 many people have embellished and adapted it to further refine it. For…
At the recent IACCM conference in London there were a number of presentations and discussions on the topic of contract visualisation and the use of plain language in contracts and agreements. It was a topic that seemed to spark people’s imagination and resonate with many whether it was the use of simpler language, the ordering…
I spent yesterday at Salesforce’s Cloudforce event in London which was a great day out with most innovative company (as decided by Forbes magazine). What was clear was the energy and enthusiasm that they have created in the ecosystem that sits around their platform. What they now coin “the social enterprise” is a really savvy…
It was interesting to hear today of the deal between Waterstones, one of the diminishing number of UK-wide book retailers, and Amazon, whereby Waterstones will have a digital section in their stores to help people try and buy Kindle devices and then select content. The two companies come at the same space, book retailing, from…
So how has one of the darlings of the 90’s UK corporate world found itself squeezed in the middle? We saw yesterday Britain’s largest software company announce that underlying turnover had grown by 2% in the 1H with sales of licences dropping 4%. On the ‘upside’ they stated that subscription revenues were growing well (albeit…
If you step back a moment and create an “if only …” list for you or your organisation and then look at its contents then it is likely that you’ll see an interesting trend and one which is important for our profession. You will likely see that your list is made up of offerings that…