Almost every organisation has somewhere in its values a statement that equates to “people are our greatest asset” yet from experience, many employees read such a statement with cynicism and many employers don’t truly mean it. Interestingly both are probably right in their views of such a sweeping statement, yet a good match between employees and employer…
I just read ‘What’s The Future of the Sharing Economy‘ on Fast Company and it re-kindled some thinking about the business models that we’re seeing in the digital publishing world. Many of us are now used to receiving books, magazines and newspapers in a digital form, however, how is this impacting the sharing economy? Where…
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…