Business partnerships are great. From outsourcing deals to franchises to tie-ups, they deliver economies of scale, let us focus on our core proposition and extend our reach. But partnerships have pitfalls which can risk damaging your brand. You can avoid many of these pitfalls by making sure your partnership approach is properly thought through, appropriately… Read More
Hokey Cokey Management and the Anti-Legacy Legacy
During my years in IT management, I heard more than enough cynical responses to the regular round of strategic changes handed down from on high. One hardy perennial was ‘What goes around comes around’; the view that these changes never took us forwards but simply circled us back to somewhere we’d been before. In the… Read More
Carillion, complexity and the dawn of the robot CEO?
I don’t follow all the ins and outs (mainly outs, I guess) of the outsourcing trend, but for me, as for many people, the collapse of Carillion gave pause for thought. I was particularly taken by Matthew Vincent’s excellent FT article on why Carillion went into liquidation rather than administration , partly because I actually understood most… Read More
Nick Teale 