Continuous Improvement When he died last year Feodor Ingvar Kamprad was worth — depending on who you listen to — somewhere between 3 and 28 billion dollars. According to Forbes he was one of the ten richest men in the world. How you can misplace $25 billion and still be one of the world’s richest […]
The Performance Pyramid
F1 Professor Mark Jenkins Mark Jenkins is the Professor of Business Strategy at Cranfield School of Management. He has spent time studying Formula One, trying to understand what creates great performance. I’m a bit sceptical of people who study “great” organisations. The genre leading books In Search of Excellence and Good to Great have both […]
What Do You Wish You Were You Good At?
Management Innovation When people think about innovative businesses what excites them? I’ve heard plenty of people getting frothy about their new phone and all the fancy apps it comes with but I have yet to hear anybody getting agitated about washing machines and microwave ovens. Domestic appliances or “white goods” do not set the imagination […]
Sweat the Small Stuff
TED Talk Rory Sutherland Rory Sutherland points out that big, strategic, expensive initiatives don’t always work. There are a myriad of small projects that are just as powerful. Although big important people like big important projects, the money that they throw about is often wasted. Rory urges us to figure out what the small inexpensive […]
It Stands to Reason…
Books or concrete? Imagine you are on the board of an educational charity. You are trying to improve the standard of education in Sub-Saharan Africa. How should you invest the charitable donations? What would be the most effective way to spend the money? In his book Adapt, Tim Harford tells the story of the Dutch […]
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